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Jan 2nd, 2016

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Day 1 Jan 2nd, 2016

Waves

heavy seas at Collieston harbour #afternoon #saturday #january #waves #collieston

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Jan 3rd, 2016

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Day 2 Jan 3rd, 2016

Winter green

Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses

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Jan 4th, 2016

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Day 3 Jan 4th, 2016

Storm Force 10

The shipping forecast CROMARTY Gale Warning: Gale warning issued 3 January 21:53 UTC Southeasterly storm force 10 continuing, decreasin...

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Jan 5th, 2016

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Day 4 Jan 5th, 2016

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany, the day when the wise men visited the infant Jesus. It is also the night on which the Christma...

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Jan 6th, 2016

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Day 5 Jan 6th, 2016

A day for nostalgia

Any abysmal day - dark, darker, wet and wetter. Any outdoor photograph would be a study in 500 shades of grey. Just the day to wal...

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Jan 7th, 2016

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Day 6 Jan 7th, 2016

Wild skies and wild seas

The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston

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Jan 8th, 2016

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Day 7 Jan 8th, 2016

One I prepared earlier

We humans are not the only ones suffering the results of the current inclement weather. Hundreds of little auks Alle alle, a se...

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Jan 9th, 2016

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Day 8 Jan 9th, 2016

The swede and tree

Following the recent floods on the Ythan river Newburgh beach is covered in debris, including uprooted trees and swedes washed out...

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Jan 10th, 2016

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Day 9 Jan 10th, 2016

The fabled Golden Cowrie

A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...

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Jan 11th, 2016

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Day 10 Jan 11th, 2016

Commuting

I do believe that it has stopped raining! A lone helicopter en-route from a North Sea oil rig to Aberdeen International Airport. The passeng...

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Jan 12th, 2016

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Day 11 Jan 12th, 2016

The loneliness of the long distance pathemaker

Scottish Natural Heritage are improving one of the heavily used paths on the Sands of Forvie Reserve. T...

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Jan 13th, 2016

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Day 12 Jan 13th, 2016

Sun and ice

'tis a miracle, the sun has been in view all day, from sunrise to sunset! At last it has turned cold and the new lochs on the golf course,...

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Jan 14th, 2016

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Day 13 Jan 14th, 2016

Defending the beaches

An echo of war among the sand dunes behind Newburgh beach. This brick and concrete pillbox was built in 1941 to help hinder any...

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Jan 15th, 2016

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Day 14 Jan 15th, 2016

The golden ball

The recent gales and floods have cast many strange objects onto the beach. Is this a rarely seen denizen of the deep? #friday #afterno...

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Jan 16th, 2016

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Day 15 Jan 16th, 2016

The North Sea: Newburgh Beach

Why go to Bali when you could go to Newburgh beach? Well, for a starter, the food is better in Bali and the wind doesn't...

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Jan 17th, 2016

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Day 16 Jan 17th, 2016

Mud, water and ice

"Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea." Great Expectations. Charles D...

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Jan 18th, 2016

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Day 17 Jan 18th, 2016

Patterns in the sand

Sand patterns on Newburgh beach #afternoon #monday #beach #january #sand #patterns #newburgh

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Jan 20th, 2016

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Day 18 Jan 20th, 2016

A cockle shell

A shell of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule on Newburgh beach. #afternoon #wednesday #shell #january #cockle #mollusc

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Jan 21st, 2016

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Day 19 Jan 21st, 2016

A sea potato

This is a sea potato. Sometimes called a heart urchin, and known scientifically as Echinocardium cordatum, it lives in offshore burrows i...

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Jan 22nd, 2016

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Day 20 Jan 22nd, 2016

The Scoville Scale

Today is the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacologist who devised the Scoville scale used to measure the heat...

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Jan 23rd, 2016

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Day 21 Jan 23rd, 2016

Where old Land Rovers go to die

#afternoon #saturday #death #january #graveyard #landrover

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Jan 24th, 2016

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Day 22 Jan 24th, 2016

Returning to Nature

#afternoon #sunday #january #decay #derelict

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Jan 25th, 2016

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Day 23 Jan 25th, 2016

Alas, dear haggis

... His knife see rustic Labour dight, An cut you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And t...

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Jan 26th, 2016

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Day 24 Jan 26th, 2016

At the seaside

#afternoon #tuesday #sea #storm #january #collieston

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