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Day 329
Serenity
Our family Buddha has returned to his summer residence following his winter holiday in the garden shed. I live in daily hope that some of his...
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Day 326
Yellow
We humans have eyes that can detect just a portion of the wavelengths of radiation that illuminate our world. Thanks to the gizmos that are bui...
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Day 231
A bargain!
Do you fancy owning a castle? If so, then this might well be what you are looking for. Knockhall, our village castle, is up for sale at the...
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Day 232
Memento Mori
Skulls (and crossed-femurs) are common symbols on old Scottish gravestones. Some would have it that they mark the graves of pirates but i...
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Day 249
A Merry Christmas from way up north.
Christmas greetings to you all from my favourite Inuk. The hard black steatite carving of an Inuk (man) is the wo...
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Day 276
Requiem for a dead Geranium
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light sh...
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Day 192
Texel sheep in Orkney
#october #afternoon #wednesday
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Day 287
Through the microscope
It is a miserable day here today. A day to spend time peering into the microscopic world. The photograph shows part of the foot...
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Day 97
Two old rocks
It is cold and it has been raining for much of the last 24 hours. A day to think of warmer times! When on holiday I always bring back a...
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Day 293
The bow of the Lunar Bow
Another visit to Peterhead harbour on a lovely sunny afternoon. This is the bow of the Lunar Bow, a large pelagic fishing ves...
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Day 307
Food waste
Today was a lovely sunny day and should have presented lots of photographic opportunities, but I failed to find them. I did however, find s...
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Day 308
Golfers be afraid, be very, very afraid!
Our village has a fine, traditional links golf course. This is an area of rough; as rough as rough gets. #aft...
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Day 334
My, that is a whopper!
From this morning's Aberdeen Press and Journal: "A £50million project to develop a north-east harbour to boost the town’s econo...
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Day 222
Pea brained?
Biologists have devoted untold thousands of hours of effort in the field and in the lab. and have used powerful computers to show that an...
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Day 303
A focus-stacked echidna.
And now or something quite different - a focus-stacked photograph of the rear end of a Tasmanian spiny ant-eater, or echidna!...
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Day 320
Home!
A detail of the Collieston harbour wall at low-tide. What you see is the whole world for a group of small sea-snails. When the tide is out they...
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Day 346
Hard won fish
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep;...
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Day 196
The Westray Wifie
#october #evening #tuesday #orkney #westray #wifie
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Day 243
Roman suace
"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." Marcus Terentius Varro. Roman author. The sauce that Marcus Varro had in mind would...
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Day 284
Life at the harbour
When photographic inspiration is seriously lacking I tend to gravitate to Peterhead harbour where I can always find something of i...
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Day 298
Favonius
The fishing vessel Favonius was tied up in Peterhead harbour this morning. Built in the Macduff shipyard in 2007, she sports a splendid bulbo...
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Day 301
Stacking elephants
Today, I started to dabble with focus stacking, with three small ivory elephants. In the photograph, a stack of 20 images, I have t...
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Day 304
Love is in the air.
Stony Owls Strix petrophilus, a rare species confined to Northern Scotland, are very long-lived; this pair set up home with us in...
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Day 309
The Tamarind
“Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me...
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