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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 343
A Trowie and Parasols
A rare photograph of a Trowie. Trowies are malignant or mischievous fairies or spirits in the folklore of Scotland, particularly...
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Day 348
An indoor rock-pool
It is horribly wet today and so I have resorted to creating an indoor rock-pool, based on a ceramic dish made by Lotte Glob, and t...
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Day 190
Marwick Head, Orkney
#october #afternoon #monday #orkney #kitchener #marwick
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Day 217
The day of the super moon
It looks as if the super moon is going to be well hidden behind the clouds tonight. So, all I can give you is a view of the...
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Day 227
A different kind of mushroom.
I picked up this dead coral over 40 years ago on the Astrolabe reef in the Fijis. Measuring about 10 inches across it is...
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Day 315
The Leper Lily
#afternoon #tuesday #garden #flower #plant #spring #floral #petal #blossom #orchid #april #bloom #lily #flora #botany #lilly #fritillar...
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Day 210
A Winter Sky
#afternoon #monday #sky #clouds #winter #november #cloudscape #ythan
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Day 247
The alma mater
Founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland's third o...
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Day 295
In the dunes and on the beach
The mouth of the Ythan estuary with its surrounding sand dunes is a pretty idyllic place. #outdoors #nature #afternoon #...
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Day 313
The complexity of life.
Living things are always complex structures. This is a slice through a Brassica tuber showing its complicated anatomy. Languag...
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Day 330
Welcome!
Is it a prison? A military bunker? A bank? No, it's the Church of Scotland. A sad sign of the times we live in. The church has been forced to...
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Day 221
Shaggy parasol mushroom
#nature #friday #afternoon #food #november #close #vegetation #mushroom #shaggy #fungus #parasol #mould
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Day 241
The close of the day
Towards the end of the day, the landscape photographers were busily adjusting their ND filters at the mouth of the Ythan. #thursd...
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Day 246
The Bone Man
Another visit to the museum. Today, the skeleton of a python; a masterclass in skeleton preparation and articulation. #thursday #afternoo...
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Day 280
Our Collider
Much impressed with the results coming from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN a group of people from our village decided to have bash at...
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Day 349
The Shiprow, Aberdeen
This street art is near the docks in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the work of Alice Pasquini who, according to Prof. Google is a mu...
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Day 254
Barbara arrives in time for Christmas.
Therfor whanne Jhesus was borun in Bethleem of Juda, in the daies of king Eroude, lo! astromyenes camen fro the...
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Day 306
All that glisters is not gold
I collected this Golden Cowrie shell from a coral reef in Fiji over 45 years ago. The Golden Cowrie Lyncina aurantium qu...
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Day 319
Down to the basics
This is an extreme close-up of a spurge flower. The tiny flowers, 3-4 mm in size, contain just the essential parts needed for sexua...
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Day 193
Kirbuster Farm, Orkney
#thursday #october #afternoon #far #orkney #hoyse
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Day 184
Wild geese
#thursday #afternoon #sky #september #geese #skein #wild-geese
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Day 199
Bastet, the cult of the cat.
The grandchildren have departed and the house is suddenly very quiet! Before they left, they wrapped Thomas; I knew that...
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Day 230
Requiem for a frost bitten fuschia
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual l...
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