Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 9, 2007| 2 Comments »
honeycomb rock close, originally uploaded by bobsee.
I know how many of you share my love of texture.
I drove a long way down a very winding single track road then clambered over an incredibly stony beach to get to Honeycomb Rock on the Isle of Skye.
See a wee slideshow of photos here.
Posted in art, creativity, from the dark room, life, photography on October 9, 2007| 6 Comments »
I’ve had a few days break on the Isle of Skye. Despite the fact that I’ve lived in Scotland all my life this is the first time I’ve ever visited Skye. I took my camera and I’ve taken some of the loveliest photos I’ve ever taken up here. It’s an island which is bigger than it first appears. It’s takes quite a while to drive anywhere because a lot of the roads are single track with passing places, winding up and down and around the mountains, through the glens and across the bracken moors. It makes every little trip here an adventure.
One of the trips was to a lighthouse. You have to park your car in the car park at the top of the cliff then walk down a long, long trail to the lighthouse (and, yes, walking back up and up and up the same trail back to the car is VERY demanding! Especially if you spend your life avoiding serious exercise!). Right at the bottom of the trail is the lighthouse which is surrounded by a black, oily bog. Once you slurp your way across the bog (waterproof shoes essential!) you come to the very point of the peninsula. The lighthouse is behind you, across the sparkling sea you see the outlines of the further islands and before you, suddenly, you become aware of this field of stone structures. Yes, the whole area is rocky and you have to clamber over huge rocks to get to the field but there before you, as you get closer, you see hundreds upon hundreds of stone sculptures.
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I took a lot of photos cos its just stunning, amazing, incredible. Go see the collection here.
This is simply an immense outpouring of the human creative spirit (well, unless you believe it was the fairies wot did it!) How did this start? Well, I can tell you it’s infectiously compulsive. One of those structures is the one I added to the collection. Any idea which one I made?
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 9, 2007| 2 Comments »
A loch the shape of Scotland, originally uploaded by bobsee.
OK, get your atlas out and have a look at this.
Is my imagination going crazy here, or does loch look like it’s the shape of Scotland?
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 7, 2007| 3 Comments »
wispy clouds, originally uploaded by bobsee.
It’s amazing how the sunlight illuminates these wispy clouds
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 6, 2007| 1 Comment »
Isn’t this dramatic?
The morning was full of rain and the skies started to clear as I crossed over from the mainland to the Isle of Skye
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 5, 2007| 6 Comments »
morning sun stirling, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Saw the sun come up over the railway station this morning.
Looks like a Chinese painting, doesn’t it?
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »
from the consulting room, originally uploaded by bobsee.
one of my tags is “from the consulting room” to indicate posts about health.
Look at what I saw as I walked into my REAL consulting room this week!
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »
less is more, originally uploaded by bobsee.
some mornings as I walk down past the park to the railway station the dew or the frost makes literally dozens of spiders’ webs sparkle in the early morning light.
This one really caught my attention.
I think because sometimes, less is more……
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 3, 2007| 2 Comments »
G1, originally uploaded by bobsee.
There are a couple of enormous advertising screens on the edge of George Square in Glasgow just now, and when I took this photo the other morning it had just changed to this “G1” display (which is the postcode for George Square)
This photo and the other one about the advertising banners on George Square just caught my eye.
This is one of the benefits of carrying your camera eveywhere – it helps you notice what you otherwise pass without seeing every day.
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »
glasgow posters, originally uploaded by bobsee.
These gigantic banners on George Square in Glasgow caught my eye the other day.
Oh, and, yes, I rather like that phrase…..”beauty is mischief”!
Heroes Not Zombies 