A carpark in central Leeds, one Sunday morning during Christmas 2014.
Which serves the public better – a traffic warden ticketing cars or the gritting of road and pavement so folks could walk safely along?
Category Archives: photos
Perth Street Stories: Cute (2)
The last batch of photos from the Perth winter street festival – fuzzy things – more reindeer and one of a pair of Husky dogs.
Perth Street Stories: Cute (1)
Perhaps the biggest attraction of the Perth street winter festival – a handful of reindeer down from the Cairngorms. I can’t recall ever seeing them live and in the flesh before.
Perth Winter Festival: Stories (2)
Continuing the theme of things I saw on my travels around Perth one Saturday afternoon – this time, some rather more classical / stereotypical street-photography subjects in gritty black and white.
Perth Winter Festival: Stories (1)
Continuing the theme of things I saw around Perth one Saturday afternoon…
I have absolutely no idea what a chained-up dinosaur has to do with Christmas, but hey, I’ll let it live…
The Varying Moods of Scotland
Summer in the Highlands? Hold a Games, break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.
Tourist season in Edinburgh? Break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.
Autumn, pretending to be winter, in Perth? Break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.
This was one of the above situations.
Perth Street Stories: groups
Back in November, Perth council thought to hold a winter street festival – never mind that it wasn’t Christmas, Advent (at the time) or even winter yet, at least it was a good excuse to get folks tramping past the shop windows.
Herewith, a handful of street scenes – a little different for me – this time, groups of humans.
I didn’t rate the bell-ringers very highly; the slow and disjoint performance (only identifiable by the title on the sheet music saying “Jingle Bells”) served only to distract at close range from the pop-noise coming from a couple of large speaker-stacks a little further down the pedestrian precinct.
Bright Light / City
A fairly obvious shot from a viewing location on the south side of the Tay, the road bridge disappearing in a stream of lights flowing to Dundee in the fog. At night. As a long exposure, because it’s what one does, right?
Mist over Strathearn
One of my favourite views – from above Monzie, looking along Strathearn to Glen Turret.
There’s a Highland Boundary Fault in there somewhere, too.
Stillness: the Pass of Brander
The reflections of Creag an Aonaich in Loch Awe on a calm day take some beating.
Only question is: with or without the boat?
Around St Fillan’s
Loch Earn is still an idyllic scene despite everyone stopping to take photos in St Fillan’s. Herewith, two obvious views:
Personally, I like this view instead:
People Watching / People Watching
There’s a time-/context-axis running from the far distance – first there was the landscape, then there was Robert Mulholland’s statue Still, then there’s people taking photos of it, then there’s me shooting them. All things considered, a bit “meta”.
as dusk turns to dark
I haven’t been around this area for a few years, but happened to be passing through Kenmore as dusk gave way to outright dark.
Mist rising on Ben Lawers in the distance:
Update: this image has been well received, so I’ve made it available for sale via my landscape photography site.
Water: Around Loch Rannoch (4)
A final pair of images from the day’s trip around Loch Rannoch – the first taken at the start as I was setting off, the second toward the end of the day while I was hoping for a glamorous sunset but enjoyed a beautiful subtle sundown instead.
The view of the folly on the Eilean nam Faoileag crannog in Loch Rannoch is available on my landscape photography site, ShinyPhoto.
Sodium Glow
There’s something a bit romantic about the cosiness of suburban streets in the fog.
Perth on a foggy night
Water: Around Loch Rannoch (3)
This one isn’t so much about the water as the mountain, Schiehallion. Back in 1774, its regular shape and relatively isolated location led to it being used in the famous experiment by Mason and Maskelyne to determine the value of the gravitational constant, big-G, and the density of the Earth.
Certainly it sits fairly impressively in the landscape.