Skywatch Friday: A lone Tree

Skywatch Friday

The Weekend In Black and White: Monochrome Cows

Some hybrid (appear to be cross bred with Highland Cattle)cows eating frosty grass, edited and turned black and white (with a slight tint)in Adobe Camera Raw.

The Weekend in Black and White

Ruby Tuesday 2: Red Flowers in George Square, Glasgow

The Weekend in Black and White: Monochrome River

The Weekend In Black and White

Skywatch Friday: Frosty Afternoon Sky

Skywatch Friday

Night Shot Monday: Maltese Blue Hour

Taken from the ship at Twilight before we left which was around 11pm, we had to wait as usual for late coming passengers on a joby gorillapod for compact cameras.

Night Shot Monday

Todays Flowers: Scottish Heather

Todays Flowers

Skywatch Friday: Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, Portmahomac

Taken in 2006 with my Canon ixus ( aka SD30) compact camera. Tarbat Ness lighthouse stands on a point of land just north west of the seaside town of Portmahomac in the highland region of Scotland. The lighthouse like many of the Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses was built by Robert Stevenson.

Skywatch Friday

Skywatch Friday: Atlantic Clouds Of Newfoundland

Taken from the aircraft window last December, travelling to Miami.

Skywatch Friday

Blue Grotto Tour, Malta

One of the other boats with passengers visiting the Blue Grotto, Malta
People swimming in the water off Zurrieq, Malta
Posting for NatureFootsteps Water and My Life's Journey In Focus

Weekend Reflections: Abstract Painterly Reflections in Venice

Weekend Reflections

Our World Tuesday: Rush Hour in Glasgow City

Our World Tuesday

Mellow Yellow Monday: Autumnal Trees, Dennistoun, Glasgow

The leaves are were turning autumnal already when I photographed them outside the Cathedral gates in Glasgow.

Skywatch Friday: Distant shot of a motorized Hanglider

Skywatch Friday

NF Water Meme: Leaving Livorno, Italy 2011

Linking to: NF Waters Meme

Weekend in Black and White: Ceiling Rose, Glasgow Cathedral

Shot of the ceiling rose inside Glasgow Cathedral, monochrome conversion done in Topaz Black and White effects.

The Weekend in Black and White

Our World Tuesday: Glasgow Cathedral and St Mungo's Tomb

Our World Tuesday

Camera Critters: Cows in Field

Mellow Yellow Monday: 1930's Hollywood World, Universal Studios, Sentosa Island

Shot of Universal Studios 1930's Era.

MYM/Macro Monday: Yellow Flower, Crete

Weekend In Black and White: Dandelion Clock

The Weekend in Black and White

Skywatch Friday: Sunrise in Venice

Skywatch Friday

Night Shot/MYM: Leaving Malta In the Dark

Night Shot Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday

Skywatch Friday: Twilight Sky

First experiment with long exposure and the camera's LiveView option. LiveView doesn't use the mirror, rather it uses just the sensor through the lens also used when doing video, although its one drawback as it uses the battery power more. Handy with ND and IR dark filters, although its still adviseable to cover the viewfinder either with the cap provided, black card or your hand to prevent light leakage.

Shot at 4 seconds with the self-timer(2seconds)in LiveView on a Slik U6000 Tripod, F8 at ISO 100.

Skywatch Friday

Details about LiveView found here

Camera Critters: Spider

Skywatch Friday: Campanile Di San Marco Spire, Venice

I took this shot from the courtyard of the Doges Palace on my Summer add-on trip to Venice.

Skywatch Friday

Camera Critters: Cicada's

I took these Cicada's at a beach resort in Crete this summer, my father and I went to have a look around the grounds of a hotel behind Costa Beach where we spending some free time on a tour of the beach and Chania Town. Its quite unusual to see Cicada's this close, we mostly just hear the cacophony of "hissing" they make in the trees of tropical countries in the Summer months. They were all over the tree barks in the hotel grounds, apparently the male of the species has a tymbal underneath their main body that expands and contracts making the clicking sound they are famous for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

Skywatch Friday: Shower Clouds

Camera: Nikon D5100
Shutter:1/750 second
Lens: AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 G VR
ISO: 100
Aperture: F8
Focal Length: 18mm
RAW edited and converted to Fine JPEG in ViewNX2.

I took this yesterday with my new D5100, before it started raining again.

Skywatch Friday

NF Water/Water World Wednesday: Trevi Fountain At Sunset/Dusk

The Trevi Fountain taken just as the sun was setting at 9pm.

NF Water

Water World Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Little Girl

Many of the children in Greece are poor and busk for money from tourists, we saw many playing accordions like this little girl in Athens too. I edited this image in Adobe Camera Raw ( although you don't get all the features that ACR offer to raw file users, you can still bring a jpg file into it), cropped the image and did a bit of selective colour editing.

Wordless Wednesday

Macro Monday: Shiny Stones,Elia Beach, Mykonos

We revisited Elia Beach again this year, these are some more stones and sand on the beach.

Macro Monday

My Forthcoming Camera Upgrade

I Will be saying goodbye to shooting with the Coolpix and gaining this lovely DSLR next week. First DSLR very excited:D

Camera Critters: Pigeon Having A Drink, Rhodes Town

I took this pigeon taking a sip of water from the main fountain in Rhodes recently on my summer cruise to the mediterranean, we had experienced stiflingly hot and humid temperatures, it had been 105 degrees in Athens, so it wasn't surprising that the local pigeons were needing a drink.

Camera Critters

Skywatch Friday: End of a Day @ Sea

Skywatch Friday

NF Water/WWWednesday: Fountain in Downtown Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas US VI

NF Water Meme

Water World Wednesday

Skywatch Friday: Autumn Sunrise

Sunrise shot taken last September.

Skywatch Friday

Skywatch Friday: Sunset Over Miami

Taken on the 23rd December 2011, sun was setting over Miami and Fort Lauderdale as we left bound for Princess Cays.

Skywatch Friday

Camera Critters: Black and Yellow Caterpillar@ St Martin's Butterfly Farm

According to our guide, in the animal kingdom anything with yellow and black markings is showing other creatures that its dangerous to try and attack it thus this serves as excellent protection against predators in the wild.