Posted on January 24, 2021
A tranquil view of the inner harbour at St Andrews in the Kingdom of Fife.
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: boats, CMMC, Houses, Reflections, St Andrews
Posted on April 8, 2020
One of the possible subjects for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is ‘fishing items’.
I saw this pile of artfully positioned lobster pots on the quayside in St Andrews, in Scotland. Those figures are standing on the seawall on the other side of the harbour: the lobster pots aren’t that big.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 7 April 2020
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Fishing, lobster pots, St Andrews
Posted on February 22, 2018
This anonymous dog-walker, lost in his own thoughts but with his faithful pet loyally tagging along, may not even have noticed the exceptionally blue sea on a perfect autumn day at St Andrews harbour – nor all the other people with their dogs that surrounded him: at a respectful, privacy-preserving, distance, of course.
Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face In The Crowd
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: A Face In The Crowd, Anonymous, beach, Dogs, Seaside, St Andrews, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on September 1, 2017
The themeĀ for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is ‘Shadows’. This is the top of a ladder which allows sailors to step down into their boats from the jetty at Saint Andrews harbour, in Scotland. The low, bright sunlight casts strong shadows on and from the freshly painted metalwork – too red not to apply some selective colour to the image.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Shadows
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, ladder, Red, selective colour, St Andrews
Posted on February 4, 2017
On a sunny autumn day in St Andrews, my grandson dips a toe in the waters of the North Sea.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: seascape, Solitude, St Andrews, Sunlight, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on December 23, 2016
On a very calm and sunny day in the harbour of St Andrews, this little fishing boat was reflected almost perfectly in the still water.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Reflections
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, boats, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Reflections, St Andrews, Water
Posted on December 13, 2016
Have I got views for you. So many to choose from, but here’s a view – taken on a lovely calm, sunny day at the end of October this year – of the harbour at St Andrews in Scotland:
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 19 – View
Category: Landscape, Uncategorized Tagged: 52Weeks, Harbour, seascape, St Andrews, View, Water
Posted on November 10, 2016
As promised, this week we have some more of the interesting doors on offer in St Andrews – although, just to be awkward, we begin with a gateway: to one of the old buildings of the University (the Latin expression over the gate reads ‘In principio erat verbum’: ‘in the beginning was the word’).
This is a wider view of one of the most prominent commercial buildings in St Andrews, the J & G Innes bookshop, with its original windows and wooden frontage:
Rather more dourly Scottish is this example:
Down by the harbour is the rather more modern Harbourmaster’s Cottage:
Some more traditional doors, gentrified by the people who live behind them:
Thursday Doors 10 November 2016
Category: Doors Tagged: Architecture, Doors, St Andrews, Thursday Doors
Posted on November 3, 2016
In a previous existence, we lived in Scotland for twenty years and it’s always good to return, as we did recently for a week’s holiday.
One of our favourite places is St Andrews – home of golf and also Scotland’s oldest University (established between 1410 and 1413) . We know it pretty well – not least because our daughter went to school there – but never tire of it. This is one of the gates to her alma mater, St Leonard’s:
The town centre is very compact and there are plenty of solid old stone buildings to admire – together with their characterful doors:
Some of the architecture is not only old but comparatively unusual, like this stone porch:
Not so unusual, but still attractive is this old half-spiral staircase:
The overall impression is one of solidity:
More from St Andrews next week.
Thursday Doors 3 November 2016
Category: Doors Tagged: Architecture, Doors, St Andrews, Thursday Doors