A selection of photos, using a walk around Birnam Hill to test the new mobile and its camera. Things one...
Around Birnam Hill: Tree Closeups
A slight reversion to type, here. In previous lives I used to enjoy taking photos of closeup parts of trees,...
Strolling around town
A small collection of things seen in the course of one day strolling around Perth: the classic view of St...
What I did on my holidays
To celebrate my increasing antiquity at the end of August, I spent a happy few days in the Lake District...
Scottish Air Show, Ayr
Today was the airshow in Ayr, marking the last Scottish flight of the Avro Vulcan XH558. Last weekend I saw...
Glen Turret: Lumpy Landscape
Glen Turret is an obvious glacial valley. At the north end of the loch the land is covered with undulating...
Glen Turret: Dark
Two of my twitter friends have developed particular styles - extreme dark low-key black+white rendition and negative inversion, respectively. It's...
Glen Turret: Wet Stuff
A short study in water - taken on a stroll along the side of Loch Turret. [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="2018,2015,2012,2008"]
Too-Big Data? That don’t impress me much
On a whim, I spent the evening in Edinburgh at a meetup presentation/meeting concerning Big Data, the talk given by...
Portknockie (3/3): Bow-Fiddle
I've left the usual photos to last, seeing as how everyone else has shot this scene before. It wasn't particularly...
Perth Highland Games
I spent much of this afternoon at the Perth Highland Games held on the North Inch. Amongst other things, there...
Portknockie (2/3): colourful rocks
The coast at Portknockie features an intermingling of Cullen quartzite (dating from Lower Dalradian times, 650 million years ago during...
Portknockie (1/3): an unusual view
This is by way of a little tease. The Interwebs are full of photos of this lump of rock taken...
Discovering SmartOS
[caption id="attachment_1939" align="aligncenter" width="632"] What 22TB looks like.[/caption] It has been a long and interesting weekend of fixing computers. Adopt...