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The buy a bouquet machine

Posted in from the dark room, photography on November 6, 2009| 1 Comment »

….never seen one of these before!

How does your day begin?

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, personal growth, photography on November 5, 2009| 4 Comments »

How does your day begin?

I took this photo of the sun rising behind the old factories on the other side of Stirling station yesterday, and it got me thinking about the start of the day. Every day the sun comes up (but we don’t always notice it). In some cultures and traditions this simple, daily event was/is marked with some kind of ritual or acknowledgment – some “salute to the sun”, or some contemplation or prayer. I guess it’s no surprise in a country like Scotland where its not likely you can actually see the sun every morning that we don’t have that kind of start to our day.

But how DO you start your day?

Do you start on auto-pilot? Some combination of washed/dressed/breakfast/out the door? If so, is there a point where you take over from the auto-pilot? At what point in the day do start to live more consciously?

Or do you start your day with some personal ritual of waking or beginning? Feel free to share if you’d like.

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New Stirling Bridge at Full Moon

Posted in from the dark room, photography on November 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »

This caught my eye as I walked to pick up my car in Stirling Station car park last night……it’s the full moon through the spars of the new bridge. Snapped it with my camera phone.
I like it!

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The colour of water

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, from the reading room, perception, photography, psychology on October 27, 2009| 2 Comments »

Look at the colour of this water. It’s an amazing colour isn’t it?

Why is it that colour? It’s the effect of all the leaves on the trees of the forest through which the stream is flowing. On another day, in another season, this very water (well, actually, this very stream, not this very water!), looks an entirely different colour. In fact, a few hours earlier, or a few hours later, it looks completely different.

This got me thinking. Not just thinking how beautiful it is. It is stunningly beautiful. But how change is a such a constant, and, how whatever we see is the result of many factors, and how everything needs to be understood in it’s context, and how nothing can be reduced to some simple set of data, or simple description, without, in fact, obscuring its reality.

Maybe it’s just the way my mind works, but it also got me thinking about the interactions between the environment and the elements of the environment. I’ve just taken out a subscription to a new journal titled Ecopsychology. I’ve never come across this term before, but its the area of study which looks at the interactions between behaviour and the environment. I love it when I come across these whole new fields of human exploration and knowledge.

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It’s a time of change

Posted in from the dark room, perception, personal growth, photography on October 21, 2009| 6 Comments »

I took a walk at the weekend. Up through the Birks of Aberfeldy. Robert Burns wrote a poem about this place. Here he is –

He wrote well before me, in an earlier time and an earlier season.

I went to the Birks to find leaves. I love the colours of autumn. Come and have a look at some of the amazing golds, and reds, and silvers, and yellows, and greens, and bronzes I found…..

But what I really like most about this time of year is how you can see change happening right before your eyes. It’s true, change is always with us. Life is dynamic. Nothing can be reduced to a fixed, final and complete understanding. There’s always more to see, more to learn. There are always new ways to explore, growth and change to pursue and enjoy.

There’s always wonder.

There’s always hope.

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Very berry

Posted in from the dark room, photography, tagged autumn, autumn colours on October 16, 2009| 2 Comments »

Look at some of the wonderful berries I spotted recently……

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Gentian

Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 12, 2009| 1 Comment »

…..Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 4th October……yes OCTOBER! What an amazing colour to stumble across in October!

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Robin

Posted in from the dark room, photography, video on September 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »

There’s a lovely little robin who lives in the tree right where I park my car at home. It’s good to see him back there recently.

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Flourishing in the garden

Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 21, 2009| 1 Comment »

There’s a lot of colour and flourishing in the garden at the Homeopathic Hospital just now. I love how really every day throughout the year you can find something beautiful to stop and contemplate in here. Guess that’s why we thought it was a good idea to build a hospital around a garden…..

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