Went to the botanic gardens yesterday and took a look in the orchid house. There’s not much blooming and I was having problems with the flash gun (brain problems, not equipment problems) but in the end I liked these few:

Oops – I meant to include this panoramic view with the other Prestwick pictures.

I fancied taking some pictures down at the seaside, so I caught a train to Prestwick the other day, walked up the beach to Troon station and got the train home. I’d not been to Prestwick before – it’s not very high on anyone’s must visit list I don’t expect – and as the [...]

On the subject of cathedrals, there’s St Columba’s church. Also known as the Gaelic Church or the Highland Cathedral. Very neo-gothic. And it’s across the road from shiny glass-fronted office buildings. It’s a photographic cliché, but this morning I couldn’t resist.

I took a long way home and walked through Pollock Park. [...]

We’ve got lots of cathedrals in Glasgow. Three of them are:

St Mungo’s

St Andrew’s

St Tennent’s

OK, the last one isn’t strictly a cathedral, it’s just a big building in the same area where lots of people go to worship.

The Glenlee, our tall ship

And Dal’s been helping me experiment with using flash, avoiding red-eye (or in a [...]