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#315
Day 315
The Leper Lily
#afternoon #tuesday #garden #flower #plant #spring #floral #petal #blossom #orchid #april #bloom #lily #flora #botany #lilly #fritillar...
#309
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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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...
#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,...
#295
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 #...
#301
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...
#304
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...
#320
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...
#208
Day 208
All the colours of a rainbow and Autumn
#morning #autumn #saturday #colour #november #rainbow
#199
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...
#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...
#227
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...
#233
Day 233
For whom the bell tolls
Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris (Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.) From Devotions upon...
#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...
#210
Day 210
A Winter Sky
#afternoon #monday #sky #clouds #winter #november #cloudscape #ythan
#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...
#220
Day 220
Autumn colours
It's not just dying leaves that provide the wonderful warm colours of Autumn. #thursday #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #red #lea...
#221
Day 221
Shaggy parasol mushroom
#nature #friday #afternoon #food #november #close #vegetation #mushroom #shaggy #fungus #parasol #mould
#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...
#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...
#316
Day 316
Eider ducks, grey seals and a ship
#afternoon #wednesday #april #seals #ythan #sandpiper #wading-bird #ruddy-turnstone #turnstone #shorebird #red-back...
#319
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...
#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...
#348
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...