There’s something a bit romantic about the cosiness of suburban streets in the fog.
Perth on a foggy night
Sodium Glow
Category Archives: mobile photos
Around Stirling
Oban harbour
Oban harbour, one sunny Sunday afternoon
Berries
More seasonal colours – red hawthorn berries seen on a walk in local woods.
Seasonal Delight
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.
How I Voted…
Happily.
It’s the orthogonal thoughts that caught my eye, so to speak.
The trees still stand. I mean, the town still stands – apart from one tent in the very middle of the pedestrian area, I saw no more campaigning.
Yes & No placards reside side by side, as do their representatives, chatting together outside the polling station.
The Church is open for business, contemplation, prayer, stillness.
Now to sit back and wait patiently. Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere.
Now, who’s going to clean up all the litter?
Stillness
Peace and calm: looking along Loch Rannoch towards the setting sun and its reflection.
Seasonal (2): blackberries
The beginnings of yummy juiciness – red and some ripe black blackberries.
Seasonal (1): Teasel
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…
Decrepitude (0): Lock
Detail of a rusted padlock on a cast iron gate, basking in the late evening sunlight.
Decrepitude (1): PSI
Detail of an air-pressure gauge in a disused petrol-station.
Decrepitude (2): MPG
This pump in an old abandoned petrol-station was enjoying the last few rays of evening sunlight.
Decrepitude (3): Surreal
When life gives you bath-tubs… stick to the ceiling.
Then and Now, Night and Day
Some time around March 2007 I acquired an ancient camera, an Ensign Carbine No.3, and took a photo of Perth railway station by night, returning home to develop the film myself. It’s the only photo I remember taking with that camera, but I like it for the Ilford Pan-F tonality and glow from the lens-haze.
Today, on my lunchtime stroll around town, I took a quick photo on the mobile, looking back along the same railway tracks to the station from the other side.
Perth railway station taken from Glasgow Road using a mobile phone camera (2014)
Perth railway station at night, taken on the Ensign Carbine No.3 with Ilford PanF+-50 film (2007)
Sundown on Portpatrick
A few photos from a walk around Portpatrick on a sunny evening, starting with the Royal Navy helicopter practising for Lifeboat Week, taking in some favoured old haunts and seascapes.
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