For Seasideman in response to his comment about the last image being a tad too dark. I notice LCD screens, colour printers and the blog all reproduce colour in slightly different shades. Does anybody else notice this ?
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Just been out and taken these...

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This was taken on Balck and White and scanned, I love the graininess of the picture.

this is a piece i took years ago when i was a photographer. its one of my faves becuase of the movmenet.

i cant do photoraphy now becuase my sights deteriated too much so i do digital art, using photographs in my work and as my work and blindy software to magnify my comp mega big. .iv got a website with my work on if anyone is bored and wants a peek

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Bad photo...lovely butterfly...

It was very windy and there was no chance of getting a clear shot with the digi as the butterfly and the flora where whacked by sea frets every moment...

This is a Peacock I do declare...

I'm enjoying this browsing for identifications...

Live and learn...

I took this last year at Blakney Point in Norfolk

Tonight I took a tripod and three lenses of which I used two ; a 170 to 300 mm and another to 500 mm. By chance there was a sunset in the West over Ben Wyvis and the Black Isle.
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It's taken a lot of perseverance to get close enough to capture this shot.
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Before you send for the men in white coats my title is not to be taken literally ! More images of this remarkable sunset will be posted at lochnessimages.com as soon as possible.

I went for a walk with the hound this afternoon as a newby to wildlife photography, motivated by David's butterfly challenge...

I intended to find the amazing little translucent crimson butterflies in the marshes but discovered that they are right flippertyjibbits who will not sit stll...

And having a big soggy galumphing dog along really doesn't help...

I spent a lot of time stealth-crawling to get shots of dead leaves...

However, as I was snapping a glorious sea-thistle, this dozy mare happened along...

Purty, no ?

Of course I came home to find many butterflies wings akimbo sunning themselves on the budelia having a fag-break, but that's not the point...

It was such a lovely way to spend a couple of hours in the sun I'll keep going back to see if I can catch the crimson beauties.

One of the nearest facsimilies to paradise that I can imagine.

X

Here is a picture of my lovely dog, taken on a walk in the woods last week.

A combination photo, which covers three subjects that I had photographed individually.

This was my attempt at taking an "arty" picture whilst walking in the woods. They don't make fence posts like that any more.

This one might not be the best or rarest but she certainly must be the prettiest.

Oh and she's definitely a butterfly as she has 'bobbles' on the end of her antenna

This little girl was listening to the Ranger describe the life cycle of butterflies and moths [What's the difference?] prior to a search at Ardersier for bringing Butterfly Week to public attention.

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Got Photoshop CS3 Extended and been playing around

 I only have one this year hope to have many next.

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Don't you just hate it when that happens!

I have been living in mountain for 20 years and recently i have started to take some unprofessional photographs from the remote mountains of Nepal. I hope you will see and comments me on those photographs. so i will be more active on capturing many other pictures for the rest of world.
Mountain Images from Top of World

Testing out the new camera in Battersea just in time for the Thai Food festival

There appears to be at least three varieties of sunflowers being grown in this part of France. This type is my favourite.

Sunflowers

"Oh how they danced..."

This search followed a swimmer getting into difficulties after going into the water to cool off in the heatwave. More of my images can be viewed by clicking here.

Shepherds delight ! For more images click here.

.... a super hero in my eyes

There's always one!

The French word for sunflower is tournesol - quite literally "turn to the sun". I think one of them was sulking!

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Taken last night, at a Disabled Supporters Social Evening, at the (new) home of the mighty Arsenal!

These two little coot chicks were swimming along looking away from each other hence the title ‘Mirror Image’

There are many approaches to capturing an image so here's one of my last posting but this time framed by willow herb. More of my images are to be seen by clicking here.

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At Tollcross Park in Glasgow on a 1 hectare site are the City of Glasgow International Rose Trial Gardens.

16 beds, 240 varieties, over 4,000 plants.

NEARLY A BLUE.

AS SWEET AS IT LOOKS.

More images may be viewed by clicking here. Jake of the band 28Jacks is shown on the web site.

The supporters of the Highland Hospice marched from Culloden to the Highland Games at Bught Park last Saturday 19 th July. This wonderfully dressed Scottish character demanded a portrait. More images of other supporters will be seen shortly by clicking here.

Swallows' nests on the Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary taken into heaven and St Adalbert, Esztergom, Hungary, 19th July, 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esztergom_Basilica

Those swallows are a bit flipping quick, so I didn't manage to catch many of them in flight

I love raptors, just something about that captures my heart

Not many people know that the American Revolution was plotted in a room of the White Hart public house in Lewes.
Thomas Paine wrote his pro-independence monograph pamphlet Common Sense here, which later was instrumental in bringing about the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

(still-life)

A little too early but next week this will be just about right!

Exposing light to the photogrtaphy paper in a dark room.

This building dates back to 1615, the present owner is working with Historic Scotland attempting to return the dovecot to its original state.

Previous owners had covered the exterior with "portland" cement that, unlike the possible earlier covering, will not allow the building to "breathe" and does not allow for the movement of the building thus cracking.

The building bred and provided the meat for the owners of Blackwood Estate and is based on the Spanish/Italian style, a "L" shaped building.

The wide sloping part that housed the birds was positioned to benefit from the heat of the sun.

Looking south(ish) from Szentendre, Hungary, 20th July 2008.
The full moon is in the middle of the picture, just about to slip behind the clouds.
Budapest and the Danube are off the picture to the left.

Click it to make it bigger:

Cheers, Tom.

This statue in Birmingham depicts three of the greatest engineers:
Matthew Boulton - English manufacturer and engineer.
James Watt - Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer.
William Murdoch - Inventor of gas lighting.
All three worked together in Birmingham.
What a discredit to the great men in painting the statue in cheap gilt paint and have it with one of the cheapest backdrops in town.

HOOPOE

To read more about this lovely bird click here

This marker stone is inset into the wall of a 14c building in Lewes. It records that there are 50 miles to the Standard at Cornhill, 49 miles to Westminster Bridge and 8 miles to Brighthelmsted (Brighton).

Will this be forever known as a Simpson's sky?

(it gets bigger if you click on it)

Cheers, Tom.

'Lonely rivers flow, to the sea, to the sea,
To the open arms of the sea.
Lonely rivers sigh, wait for me, wait for me,
I'll be coming home, wait for me...'

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The 'girls' put on a tremendous performance today at the Highland Games held in Bucht Park, Inverness. I will post more images as soon as possible on my web site www.lochnessimages.com or you can click here to view the current images.

It's not complex or skilled, I just like it

Grass swaying in a field.There is a horse in the back ground,raising his head

or Never Never Land?

"Here you are Peter - let me stitch that back on for you"

Early morning near Lancaster

Whats that coming over the hill?

Forest

Dusk

But as the "Blogship Lollipop" sails off into uncharted waters

Purple Bearded Iris

From the tower of St Micheal's Church Lewes

Can anyone help me??
I took some pictures of my daughter at her leavers do and they have come out really dark...can i save them and how??

Thanks.

going out into the sunshine

This image was taken because of Usksider's interest in rusty objects. More images can be viewed by clicking here.

More images in this series with a dramatic sky maybe seen by clicking here.

I have posted this before, but have cropped it it I like this even better

Anyone got any ideas??? Come on Marion, this is your department!
I thought quince, but the leaves are all wrong.

More Herring Gulls

This herring gull was following the boat I was on just glkiding along side not dobt waiting for scraps of foof, it made relatively to photograph

Did somebody ask for Unusual photos?

Pictures that tell a story are usually interesting. The railway over the Caledonian Canal rotates to allow ships to pass. More images maybe seen by clicking here.

The massive pipes that supply the hydro-electric power station drawing water from the River Clyde.

'Waterfall days'
A large hydro-electric power station was built in 1927 to harness the power of the Falls of Clyde. The falls were a key attraction on the site, and when the water volume markedly fell, so did the visitor numbers. The reserve has worked hard over the years to develop other natural attractions, such as the wildlife tours and woodland walks and today visitor numbers are a healthy 60,000 a year. Tourists can still enjoy the natural force of the falls on special 'waterfall days' when Scottish Power turn off the hydroelectric power station. The resulting spectacular cascades have drawn a thousand or more people into the reserve. These events are generally timed to coincide with bank holidays so that more people can appreciate the spectacle.

Words from site, http://www.greentourism.org.uk/NewLanark.html

I don't know, but I quite like this one - click on it to enlarge:

Cheers, Tom.

More of my images can be viewed by clicking here. This is a challenge to photblog users to post their more unusual images over the next few days.

Ciao, have a nice day,
Kiki

xxx
Kiki

Hubby and I took the girls for a ride out to ....... park today and this flower just happened to catch my eye. Haven't got a clue what it is; it's just beautiful

I captured it,and it will never come back.

While lying on my back

New Lanark World Heritage Site, a beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village in Southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde.

The village first rose to fame when Robert Owen was mill manager from 1800-1825. Owen transformed life in New Lanark with ideas and opportunities which were at least a hundred years ahead of their time. Child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and villagers were provided with decent homes, schools and evening classes, free health care, and affordable food.

Reflections in the River Clyde from the boardwalk to the Falls of Clyde.

Mainly converted fishers' cottages in Clachnaharry on the Beauly Firth just outside Inverness. At sunset the golden light makes that place enchanting. More of my images may be viewed by clicking here.

As you can see I was hunting on the Serengeti this morning, just looking for something to shoot (with my camera), came across these two little Leopards who were non to happy to see me... Took my photo and then I was out of there

My poor beautiful little camera isn't very well today. I think she may have a terminal condition. I think I must have over-worked her Here is one of the last photos I took with her before she broke down!.

Convolvulus aka bind weed

The quad of Mansfield College, Oxford 10th July 2008

Roof tops of Edinburgh.

THE PUFFER FISH

Photo: Bill Eichenlaub / National Park Service

"That’s the o’opu hue spotted puffer (Arothron meleagris), a fiash in the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in beautiful Hawaii."

Funny fish isn't it seems it is about to blow up as is so fat or/and round
xxxx Hugs2U all
KK

PS: I just wanted to share it w/you, I didn't take the photo, indeed i refer the photographer's name, i posted as i find it funny, just that, is that ok?
Kiki

More images should follow by clicking here. The boat in the foreground is the sailing ship Svanhild built in 1889 in Norway and on its way to participate in the Tall Ships Race which sets out from Liverpool. It is on its way v to the West Coast of Scotland via Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. I want to capture it as it passes Urquhart Castle beside Loch Ness.

More images should follow and be seen by clicking here.

I was so lucky to see this sailing ship,Svanhild coming under the Kessock Bridge today on its way from Norway to Liverpool, via the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness, where the Tall Ships Race starts later this year. I took over 150 shots of this boat and its photogenic crew as it came from the Beauly Firth to Muirtown Marina where it is now tied up for the night. More images should appear and be seen by clicking here.

Visited "BUGS" at Regent's Park Zoo today.

Saw these tiny red ants in action.

These beautiful little jewel wasps look like they are metallic, but they are real. If you want to know about their dark side visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampulex_compressa

Strangely and slightly inexplicably fish are included in the exhibition.

These are babies

And this appears to be a kind of clown fish, but I am more used to the orange "Nemo" type, never seen this kind before.

Love to do fantasy; quite a bit.

This is my oldest daughter.