Top of the close

Top of the close 1/100, f/1.8, ISO400

At the top of Fleshmarket Close, there’s a bit more sky to light the scene – but a well placed street light helps provide some focus.

Light on a Distant Shore

It has been a while since I’ve put a photo up. Other priorities getting in the way.

There was some dark, wet windy weather today in Edinburgh. With gaps in the clouds this can set off some intersting light when the sun breaks through. Cramond was unusually quiet, with most people avoiding the squally showers – but well worth a walk to blow away the cobwebs.

1/100s, f/6.3, ISO100, 50mm lens

Silly Thistle

I love the name of this thistle – it’s what you would be if you sat on it. Silybum. It just appeals to my juvenile sense of humour.

1/250, f14, ISO150. Shot outdoors with flash.

Ginger Lilly

A cold feeling wet day, so a trip to the botanics.

1/250, f/18, ISO100

Taken at the maximum shutter speed for the flash, and a small aperture so that the back ground was blacked out.

 

Pineapple

I have never noticed pink in a pineapple before!f1.8, 1/40s, ISO800

Orchid

Small, delicate looking but tough. 

Flower Moon

During the week just past, there was the flower moon – May’s full moon. Here it is over Edinburgh.

Sunset Haar

It’s quite unusual to get a sunset haar. It changes the nature of something that is cold and damp and depressingly common on sunny days when the wind comes off the North Sea.

Lighhouse, John Burnside 2002

So let the mist come down, let there be haar,
long afternoons of drizzle, months of fog,
that we might know ourselves
–such as we are–

The Wren

Why is the cuckoo’s melody preferred

And nightingale’s rich song so fondly praised

In poet’s rhymes? Is there no other bird

Of nature’s minstrelsy that oft hath raised

One’s heart to ecstacy and mirth as well?

 

John Clare

Silent Tunnel

Are you bowed down in heart?
Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?
Then come away, come to the peaceful wood,
Here bathe your soul in silence.

Deep in the Quiet Wood  James Weldon Johnson