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#217
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...
#298
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...
#313
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...
#315
Day 315
The Leper Lily
#afternoon #tuesday #garden #flower #plant #spring #floral #petal #blossom #orchid #april #bloom #lily #flora #botany #lilly #fritillar...
#193
Day 193
Kirbuster Farm, Orkney
#thursday #october #afternoon #far #orkney #hoyse
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Day 213
Here there be dragons!
The Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis is a large and ferocious species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rin...
#254
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...
#349
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...
#241
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...
#346
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;...
#239
Day 239
A beluga whale in Aberdeen
An utterly miserable day and all that I have managed to photograph is a photograph. The original photograph taken in 1884,...
#246
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...
#306
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...
#208
Day 208
All the colours of a rainbow and Autumn
#morning #autumn #saturday #colour #november #rainbow
#212
Day 212
Im Westen Nichts Neues
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to tho...
#232
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...
#267
Day 267
A very close look at a dogfish.
Feeling somewhat under the weather I have spent the day indoors peering down my microscope and taking photographs of s...
#288
Day 288
Gulls on the scrounge
My good friend Gulli was on guard duty on the bridge this afternoon, ably assisted by his alter ego. #nature #afternoon #bird #l...
#303
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!...
#245
Day 245
Meet the ancestors
I spent the afternoon in the old alma mater. Pottering around the Zoology Museum I bumped into one of the ancestors, admittedly a r...
#248
Day 248
A fine December day!
Bright, sunny and warm; surely it can't be nearly Christmas? The photograph speaks for itself, interesting clouds near to sunset....
#280
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...
#330
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...
#184
Day 184
Wild geese
#thursday #afternoon #sky #september #geese #skein #wild-geese