Tag: summer

  • Duncansby Head Stacks

    Duncansby Head stacks are on the most northerly point of the British mainland, a higher latitude than John’O’Groats. On this Summer’s day the mist was pouring from the land to the sea, unusually. Yet blue skies over the North Sea. Yet the stacks or pinnacles are so majestic and give a good sign of coastal erosion.

    Duncansby Head Stacks with Thirle Door in the mist
    Duncansby Head Stacks with Thirle Door in the mist

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  • Harvest bounty

    My joy of gardening is seeing beautiful and tasty bounty harvested from garden to plate, sandwich or pot straight from the ground. This has been a good year with plenty sunshine and rain. This list includes:

    • Three sackfuls of potato
    • Six weeks of daily pickings of lettuce
    • Six weeks of cucumber
    • Endless tomatoes Friday from the vine
    • Four weeks of garden peas
    • A small carrot hill
    • Leeks
    • Rhubarb
    • Garlic (not matured yet)
    • Leeks (not mature)

    The harvest bounty also provides the pleasure of sharing with family, friends and neighbours.  Of course I have photographs…

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  • Summer Flower Detail

    Final batch from this late summer flower period in the garden.

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    Sunflower

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  • Summer Garden Flora and Fauna

    Here are more summer garden flora and fauna photographs. Getting in close with my specialised macro lens really brings the little world out to a larger scale. In such a vibrant time the garden is full of textures, colour and beasties like ladybird, flies and more. Lots to enjoy.

    Summer Garden Flora and Fauna
    Summer Garden Flora and Fauna

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  • Summer Garden Flowers

    Late August and Summer Garden Flowers, so a little detail what is on show.

    Blue bottle fly on Lilly leaf

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  • Fields of Clackmannanshire summer on iPhone

    Fields of Clackmannanshire summer on iPhone

    These were shot on an iPhone 4 in 2010 and are a good demonstration of how the iPhone camera (and others) have transformed photography. Its only weakness was wild swings in colour temperature from shot to shot, for which I corrected in this collection. These were taken around the rolling fields in Clackmannanshire at the foot of the Ochil Hills.