Over the hill and across the bridge....
Hyde Park by the serpentine lake

Carpobrotus Edulis is of South African origin. Althought this one is naturalised. The hover fly however is Scottish.

There is hope....

It is another miserable day here in Glasgow so I am wandering through the photos from my 2008 holiday in Corfu.

Have been trying to get some pictures of the birds in my garden, here are some of the results...

The focus is not great but I seem to struggle a bit with my big lense and it was through a house window, which does not help.

Took the photo for the pied wagtail.

But strangely the bubbles please me more.

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Art for arts sake? Move it for God's sake!
This piece of pipe was abandoned in situ' almost twenty years ago when new drainage pipes were laid. It has been a blot on the landscape ever since. Looks like someone decided to beautify it, blends in well eh?

Click for biggest size.

I like this pic.

It actually isn't a shadow as you can probably see, it is just that it looks that way 'cos the lens misted up due to the humidity of the Tropical house.

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This is my 1st attempt at copying Steve's excellent drip picture. I can do better than this, but I'm interested in any views on this first effort.

Cheers, Tom.

Roses and shadows - Opinions on this picture please.

Can anyone explain the 'orbs?' it wasnt raining, no flash was used, and it was a clear day.

When we took these the battery was regestering empty, and yet it took over 90 pictures.  As soon as we left the cemetry the camera turned itself off, and would not  turn on again untill we put in new batteries.    This happend on two seperete occasions.

Last years general dampness gave rise to this.

This what I saw.... many walked by.

Stan Fraser seen on top of the world and who has built a model of Titanic in his garden in Inverness. His web site is www.titanicinverness.co.uk

Nice Eh?

Almost all shots are hand held with image stabilisation. Usingthe wide end of the zoom. You need half a black bucket as an infinty curve as the wide angle tends to pull in the back ground from unwanted places.

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Wood.

There is something bleak about black and white.

It works really well for this kind of shot.

Last one.....

Siante Chappelle, Paris.

These three guys were rowing at a furious pace up the River Liffey on Saturday evening.

Are they any good or my usual snapshot standard!!

the Tropical Palm House, was built in 1834 at a cost of £1,500. Some 28 years later the extension, or Temperate Palm House, was built by Robert Matheson with a Parliamentary grant of £6,000. The Temperate Palm House measures 15.24 m (50ft) to the top of the stonework, with each glass dome 3.35 m (11ft) giving a total height of 21.95 m (72ft).

Since over 80% of the world's flora occurs in warm temperate and tropical parts of the world, the glasshouses offer the environments that many plants require.

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Yes, I am doing the old "take them in black and white and people will think you are a better photographer" trick.

Some are a little blurred as I was taking them as I was walking.

In a church

and a railway station.

We travel miles to see one and yet we walk past the other everyday.

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Cheers, Tom.

I was stalking this pair trying to get as close to them as I could but they flew off just as I was getting ready to snap them. Luckily, I managed to get this shot just after they took off:

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Cheers, Tom.

On the first day of spring 2009 the sun was shining and the there was not a cloud in the sky.
In my garden the rhubarb has made its annual appearance

and the polyanthus are in full flower

Tripoli is also known as the "White Bride of the Mediterranean"

Arch of Marcus Aurelius is the oldest standing structure of the Roman city of Oea which
is the site of modern day Tripoli

Title: White Bride
URL: http://www.chowk.com/articles/15554

Hi to everybody...did remember to take my camera out with me this morning to photograph the heath and the gorse in full bloom...it was another gorgeous walk...it's about a mile and half into the heath where this particular gorse bush grows all on its lonesome but has
more flowers on it than most of the other bushes we pass on the way to it...the heath's heather and blue gorse has yet to flower so what you see here is it in winter...still beautiful...click on them to see a larger image...looks more impressive...LOL...

Great big hugs to one and all...

I posted about this event in Sheffield on my blog but don't think I included these pics

(these both look better larger - click on them to enlarge)

Cheers, Tom.

"Shhh! We're sleeping,see you in the morning!"  
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I have to admit to quite liking this photo

Spring is surely springing in my garden.

Helleborus orientalis.

Chaenomeles. Japanese quince.

Walked up to my front porch after my long walk an the first sign of spring was waiting for me.

More of my portraits can be seen by clicking here.

(it gets bigger if you click on it)

Cheers, Tom.

Have made some interesting friends in the Mediterranean region

http://prashantbhatt.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/tripoli-to-malta-some-walks-and-conversations/

I really am tapped!

May the sun shine forever upon them and may we forever feel the warmth of their love.

Grandsons vieing for Control! With Boa!

A view of Taj Palace hotel from Gateway of India-Mumbai
The scene of 26/11 attacks...We have had Kulfi here for generations.
But something changed on 26/11

http://creative-writers.blog.co.uk/2008/12/25/kulfi-at-the-gateway-5275826/

Neither photo is a masterpiece but I just loved to see some big huge flakes falling 

In St Vitus' cathedral in Prague.

"Man in Thought"

click to sus out the title.

Have I posted this before?...bloody hell the mind's gone completely.

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Some of the summer nights at Barcelona we can meet any kind
of entertainment just walking
down and up in "the Ramblas street"
 
in the winter, also the view of the moon before the night fall
its a delicious view for the eyes of a photografer

http://prashantbhatt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/fort-by-night-mumbai/

This is another picture from my ongoing "Buildings and Light" project. It gets larger if you click on it (and on this occasion the larger size really does help).

Cheers, Tom.

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Cheers, Tom.

Nothing political here !

This picture is for my new "Buildings and Light" project. Any comments are keenly sought!

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Cheers, Tom.

I took these photos along the embankment near the London Eye.

Could not resist posting these; taken in Our Garden in Mid-February. The single Deep Pink Camelia is still holding its own. First flower on a young plant we put in last year! Share our pleasure!

Decided to post two pics of the single flower! Couldn't decide on which one...Hope you enjoy it!

Shooting into the sun, snow being blown around and sparkling.

Only joking, just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Lunch time for us both today.

Technically not the best picture I have ever taken, but I like the effect. This is a Copper leafed plum tree belonging to a neighbour.

Last night I was watching the Moon set, she went from this

To this as she sank low in the Western sky, she is a very dark amber crescent can you see her. No flash cos I wanted to avoid bleaching the colour.

Waddyareckon?

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