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Day 328
Red
Another look at the world as it might appear were we only able to see but a single colour, the rest being rendered black and white. Today, red tul...
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Day 327
Yesterday I mentioned the electronic gizmo built into some cameras which allows us some idea of what the world would look like if we could see only on...
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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 325
A mini halibut fish
This 2 inch long carving of a a halibut fish (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) was made by an Inuit craftsman. The interest lies in the...
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Day 324
Super trawlers
Another wander around the ever-interesting harbour at Peterhead. This morning the place was packed with fishing boats presumably taking...
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Day 323
Dirty money!
A foul day of rain, sleet and hail. A day for indoor photography; this is a close up of shells, fashioned into shell money from the South...
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Day 322
It's a bit grim today!
#afternoon #monday #clouds #spring #castle #storm #april
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Day 321
St George's day 2017
Here is St George dispatching his dragon on the back of a silver Victorian crown coin. Made in 1893 from an ounce of silver it wa...
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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 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 318
Protecting the nation's fish.
Under the new Immigration Act (2017) all gulls born in the UK now have to be individually tagged so as to protect our fi...
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Day 317
Tranquility in an increasingly troubled world
"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one da...
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Day 316
Eider ducks, grey seals and a ship
#afternoon #wednesday #april #seals #ythan #sandpiper #wading-bird #ruddy-turnstone #turnstone #shorebird #red-back...
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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 314
Another lone bait digger
Following on from my recent "lone bait digger", here is another one. This time a real professional, the oyster catcher. There...
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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 312
The lone bait digger
The beach was empty this afternoon apart from this one sea angler digging up lugworms for use as bait. #afternoon #landscape #wat...
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Day 311
A Nguzunguzu
It's very cold today, just the day for a nostalgic trip to the South Seas. This carving is a modern version of a Nguzunguzu, a war canoe...
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Day 310
Hazel flowers The flowers of the hazel tree appear very early in spring, before the leaves. Each tree produces both male flowers and female flowers. T...
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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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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 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 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 305
The old Peterhead town house
Peterhead's town house was erected in 1788 replacing two earlier tollbooths, the first of which had been used as an infir...
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