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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...
#98
Day 98
A happy accident
This morning I was at Haddo House, our local stately home. The photograph shows part of the newly gilded gates that lead into the Had...
#210
Day 210
A Winter Sky
#afternoon #monday #sky #clouds #winter #november #cloudscape #ythan
#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 #...
#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...
#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...
#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,...
#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...
#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...
#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;...
#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...
#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...
#315
Day 315
The Leper Lily
#afternoon #tuesday #garden #flower #plant #spring #floral #petal #blossom #orchid #april #bloom #lily #flora #botany #lilly #fritillar...
#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...
#208
Day 208
All the colours of a rainbow and Autumn
#morning #autumn #saturday #colour #november #rainbow
#213
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...
#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...
#253
Day 253
Gold
Born a King on Bethlehem's plain Gold I bring to crown Him again King forever, ceasing never Over us all to reign From the American carol We thre...
#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...
#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...
#193
Day 193
Kirbuster Farm, Orkney
#thursday #october #afternoon #far #orkney #hoyse
#230
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...
#264
Day 264
A career in mud?
"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies." Orson Welles #nature #afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #s...
#265
Day 265
Rattling
The ultimate treat, getting to rattle Grandpa's rattlesnake rattle! #portrait #afternoon #wednesday #people #photography #hair #happiness #wo...