It’s beginning to look as if “If you don’t have any flooers to photograph, do you have a painting?”. This is one I finished this morning. It’s been in my painting to-do list for some time. I’ve only ever painted it in watercolour before, but today it was done in acrylic and I quite like the finished article. Acrylic on watercolour paper.
Salsa ball tonight and at 1.00am on Monday morning, my ears are still ringing! It’s a good job I don’t have work to go to tomorrow, oops, today.
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Neither of us could decide what to do or where to go today, so we took ourselves in to Glasgow on the bus. 45minutes on the bus and 15minutes in the car. However, with the new draconian drink-drive limit in Scotland, the bus makes sense, whereas the new limit makes no sense.
The Toon was busy today. Christmas shoppers (and avoiders) every one. Spot the red hat Hazel!
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‘X’ marks the spot in the old Lewis’s building in Argyle Street in Glasgow. Don’t know what you would call it now, but it will always be the old Lewis’s building to me.
It was a wee bit icy this morning (understatement!). So I drove ‘S’ to work and came back to bed afterwards to eat my breakfast and continue reading Terry Pratchett’s autobiography. A rare treat (both B in B and the book). Afterwards, I took the opportunity afforded by the early rise to get out while the sun was shining, even if the ice wasn’t melting. The clouds broke up for a while to give the chance of a couple of skyscapes.
This was the view across the reed beds that NLC have deemed to be a nature reserve. Basically this meant they don’t have to maintain it, saving them money and ticking the Eco box. Chancers! Anyway, as usual it provided a decent cloudscape for a photo.
Behind the pond (NLC call it a ‘Loch’, but what do they know? It’s a pond, right?!) is another wee pond. I think this one is partly manmade, possibly by pupils from the nearby school. It’s a good place for the odd damselfly and dragonfly pic in the summer, but strangely there were none today.
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It was only when I was processing these pics, I realised that there were flare marks in all of them, visible in the trees left of centre here. Checked the uv filter and it was clean, then found a fingerprint aargh on the back element. Managed to dust it off with a lens cleaner thingy. Fixed. First time for a long while I’ve done that.
After a really wintry morning, the afternoon brought a little sunshine. I managed to get a few shots of some of Glasgow’s more religious architecture before my camera produced a message I’d never seen before “Battery Empty”. Luckily I was on the way home by then. Battery is now fully charged and ready for action tomorrow, provided the temperature rises above zero.
I decided to build a triptych of the three shots I’d taken rather than put them up as three individual images, just for a laugh, and because it’s a posh, arty name!
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I did the usual levels and curves adjustment with a little bit of cropping too in Lightroom. Then I exported it to Intensify where I chose Dark Image Fix. Sometimes it gives a light halo around dark areas, but this time it was not so severe that it became obtrusive. I’m finding that Intensify is a really neat program for, well, intensifying the odd dull image.
Oh, such a dull day today. Brought the tree and some of the decorations down from the loft and ‘S’ got them sorted out and untangled the lights while I made dinner which was a quite excellent minestrone soup, even if I say so myself. I don’t know how much more of this dull weather I can take. I may have to buy a sunlamp.
There. That’ll put a wee bit of a sparkle into your life Mr C. Heaven knows, we need it just now.
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It was a little brighter today, but I had to scrape the windscreen of the car in the morning. That’s the price that has to be paid for a clear sky here. I drove into Glasgow to search for Chrissy prezzies and started the trawl. Ho, ho, ho.
Nice pattern on the street lights down Bucky Street.
Looking down Bucky Street from the steps of the concert hall. It’s a grim looking place at times.
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A really dull Sunday to be back, as my daughter put it, “In the land of Grey”. Cases are now empty and the washing will have to be done this week I fear.
I want to go back to the sun!
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All good things come to an end 🙁
Two seats sitting in the sun, but for someone else, not us any more. Oh well, a good time was had.
Sun creating patterns and shadows in the hotel garden during one last walk through.
I saw this reflection in a newsagent’s window at the airport in Fuerteventura. I think the girl sitting next to me thought I must be mad, taking a photo of a blue window display. That’s what gives photogs a bad name. I know it’s a bit out of focus, but I think that’s what I like about it.
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Laziest day so far. Lay on the sunbeds all morning. ‘S’ swam in the pool and reported that the water was cold. Had lunch and the weather had changed dramatically. Didn’t actually rain, but got very dull and cold again. Probably because the wind picked up.
Such a strange feeling to come in from a sunny, warm poolside and find a nativity scene and Christmas decorations.
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First attempt in a long time at a time exposure. Quite impressed with the result, despite the overexposure of the streetlights.