Berries

Posted on 2014-09-22 by spodzone

More seasonal colours – red hawthorn berries seen on a walk in local woods.

Seasonal Delight

Posted on 2014-09-20 by spodzone

Detail of a fly agaric mushroom – just one of many tens of fungi found on a walk in the Black Woods of Rannoch, one of a few Caledonian Forest reserves.

Seasonal (2): blackberries

Posted on 2014-09-04 by spodzone

The beginnings of yummy juiciness – red and some ripe black blackberries.

Seasonal (1): Teasel

Posted on 2014-09-02 by spodzone

I can never remember whether these are thistles or teasels. Either way, it’s quite an impressive ball of spikes.

Go on, say it: you don’t want to be sitting on that…

Squaring the Spheres

Posted on 2014-08-16 by spodzone

A few weeks ago I ordered a pair of extension tubes for the Sony NEX-7; today I got around to experimenting with them for the first time. It’s quite scary seeing so much dust on the live-view LCD panel and realising it’s actually on the front of the lens.

Two tangerines and an apple.

Three Balls – two tangerines and an apple

Change to Fair

Posted on 2014-08-13 by spodzone

Fisherman’s Barometer, St Andrews

The fisherman’s barometer, corner of North Castle and North Streets, St Andrews.

A little experimentation in The Gimp, to create a synthetic “scratches” texture layer – using plasma clouds, old-photo simulation, distortions and other trickery.

Nocturnal Visitor

Posted on 2014-07-24 by spodzone

A hedgehog living in the parents’ garden – a delightful honour to see the wee thing strolling around of an evening, chomping on the crunchy food left out.

Yay hedgie!!

Wabi-Sabi

Posted on 2014-07-16 by spodzone

Appreciating the aesthetics of brokenness and decay in suburban Yorkshire.

Decrepit Warburton’s lorry

Flaking paint textures

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept, an appreciation of beauty in imperfection, seen for example in reconstructing tea cups from broken crockery fragments, contrasting with Western ideals of unblemished perfection.