Nothing terribly exciting here…I’m just trying to get back into the habit of taking more pictures. It was a lovely day today and I wanted to get some pictures of the red/gold light on mundane stuff. And whilst I was out there I found the snowdrops were in bloom. I guess it [...]

I promise I’ll get over this orchid thing. I just can’t promise when. In the meantime, I still have one plant with live flowers…

For the most part these are just stood in front of my (disturbingly dirty!) living-room window and with the lens wide open (f/1.8) so that the dirty windows don’t show.
I [...]

I took a couple more pictures of the not-dead flowers, too.

I love my orchids. I may have mentioned this before.
Ever since I was given two plants a couple of months ago I’ve been expecting to kill them. Well, the flowers of one finally died and dropped. The dead flowers look really rather good!
Anyone know if orchids press well? I’m in the [...]

Today was a lovely sunny day, bit of a mist, just a little frosty. Went up to another of my favourite haunts, Conic Hill on the east shore of Loch Lomond. The hazy mist turned the sunlight wonderfully golden a good half hour before sunset and it was a real treat to watch [...]

I take lots of photos down at the cathedral, but don’t put many of them up for show. So when I take a new set they all seem familiar, so I don’t tend to make any of them public. Then I look back at what’s on display and I have hardly any from [...]