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Call the glazier
Posted on January 12, 2022
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.
Channeling King Canute
Posted on June 23, 2021
My grandson doing his King Canute impression here by trying to turn back the tide on the beach at St Andrews.
Result: predictable. But full marks for trying.
The Inner Harbour, St Andrews
Posted on January 24, 2021
Lobster Pots
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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: A Face In The Crowd
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.
Ladder
Posted on September 1, 2017
The theme 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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude
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.
Fishing Boat At Anchor
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.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 19 – View
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
Thursday Doors: St Andrews (part 2)
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
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