Adaptation

This rather stark, quasi-abstract image obviously requires some explanation. It’s a skyscape of course, but the cables are what carry the electricity from the nearest substation – about three miles away – to the outlying hamlets, including Tranquility Base.

These cables are strung from a long line of concrete posts that run all the way along the side of the road. Except in this case the post has been replaced by what can only be described as a forked tree branch, incongruous among the concrete. I suppose they know what they’re doing.

The chemtrail of the plane passing overhead is important in adding depth and context to the image.

CMMC 19 January 2022

White swans

This week, I present a rare example of me multi-tasking. The image of these swans was captured by the lake next to Linlithgow Palace and it fulfils the criteria not only for Cee’s Midweek Challenge, where the prompt was ‘white’, but also her Black & White Challenge, for which the theme was ‘birds’.

CMMC 12 January 2022

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Birds

Call the glazier

The best you can say about these windows is that they let the light in.

Along with everything else.

This tower is part of the ruins of the medieval castle in St. Andrews.

Small but perfectly formed

This is the little hand of our grand-daughter, aged about eight weeks.

CMMC 5 January 2022

Across The Forth

You may think that this image of the Firth of Forth was captured at sunset. However, it was actually taken just before noon and is looking due south from the Fife village of Pittenweem towards East Lothian in the distance.

It’s all a matter, when shooting into the sun, of keeping the sun itself out of the image.

I think it certainly fits the brief for this week’s ‘Fun Foto’ theme of ‘water, water everywhere’.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: ‘Water, water everywhere’

December’s Last Photo

Appropriately enough, sunset on 2021. You will not be sorely missed.

Last Photo On The Card December 2021

River Reflections

For Cee’s December midweek challenge – ‘must begin with R’. Take your pick.

CMMC: Must begin with an R

The Multi-Coloured Kite

Nobody said that kites have to be kite-shaped…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Four Colours Or More

Is this elephant wild?

Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is animals, either wild or farmed. We are encouraged to be creative, however, so here is an image of an elaborate wall hanging that’s on display in the Japanese galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum (the V&A) in London.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Farm or wild animals

A Photo A Week Challenge: Funny Signs

This street sign in the old quarter of Beverley, opposite the Minster Church, looks like an effective default way of keeping the traffic moving.

A Photo A Week Challenge: Funny Signs