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Peter Piper thought it would be a run of the mill assignment. All he had to do was to pick up a peck of pickled peppers.
After checking with Wikipedia he discovered that in fact he needed to pick two gallons of the things, but undeterred he donned his anti-bacterial suit and strode off into the night.
Little did he know that waiting for him were the actual Red Hot Chilli Peppers. So where’s the peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper picked? More to the point, where’s Peter??

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Went into the toon today for a wee wander, having slipped the leash again. Really did enjoy dotting in and out of the art shops picking a selection of paints for my next monsterpiece. It’s amazing that the slashed price box sets are actually more costly than buying single tubes of paint now that colleges are back and all the art shops are trying to undercut each other. Anyway, eventually settled on four tubes of colour. Two by old faithful Galleria and two by an unknown to me, but apparently well rated new company. Will hopefully get a chance to test them out over the weekend.

Today’s picture is the bass player from a cheery wee group of singers and musicians who can be heard all around Glasgow and all across the central belt, and belt it out they do. Maybe not the most accomplished artists and their repertoire may not be the widest, but what they lack in technique they make up for in enthusiasm.

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I took a trip into Hamilton today and went for a wander round the town. I really went to see if I could get some cheap paints in the Ink Spot. Yes, they did have some good quality paints, unfortunately they were at good quality paint prices. I then resorted to taking some photos. I’ve always liked these wee dugs dotted around Hamilton and my brother has photographed them many a time. There seems to be something about burgh towns that means the council has to spend more money on them while the other towns and villages around them suffer. Such is the case with Hamilton, but I’m not complaining too much because I like these wee dugs that guard the sinusoidal seats.

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Unfortunately, he was in Inverness, not Paris.

Actually my first title as soon as I saw this was “Save the life of my child” by Paul Simon, because of the first line “Good God, don’t jump!”. By the way, Wikipedia claim that the album “Bookends” came out in 1968! Now that just can’t be true. That’s over 45 years ago and I remember buying the LP, yes, LP when it came out. It couldn’t be 45 years ago, no way!

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Caught this bloke having a fag in an alley in Inverness. Managed two shots before he clocked me. One of the problems of having a camera with a focal plane shutter, mirrorless or not.

This guy seemed to be quite deep in the river, but when I looked a bit closer, he was only ankle deep. Probably on a long shelfing gravel bed. Great colours in the trees.

An experiment using spot metering to darken down the background. It succeeded in that and also gave a bit more saturation to the subject. I must try this again.

Spent the afternoon cycling. Not a bad day with a bit of sun and an almost clear blue sky. A big change from the morning when it was really quite foggy. One of those days when you’re glad you don’t have to get up and go to work 😉

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After yesterday’s self-imposed cabin fever, I decided that come hell or high water, I’d get out a walk this morning. I did, to St Mo’s. One of my favourite places if the light is right.  The colours are tending towards autumn now, but still enough colour contrasts to make life interesting. This was originally a very dark image

I lightened it in Lightroom and then added some enhancement in Intensify. Just shows what a lot of information is held in the NEF format.

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… the startling eyes of the bread monster stare back!

One of those lazy Sundays when you know you should go out, but you equally know that you just can’t be bothered. It was this or another shot of carnations. This is at least slightly more creative.

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This has been on my agenda to photograph again for some time. The last time I visited was during the summer, in June to be more precise. As we were lost for a place to visit today, I settled on Kincardine again. When we set out it was wall to wall blue skies, but after a few detours for lunch and shopping (Not ‘shopping, you understand. The devil is in the lack of the apostrophe!) we arrived just in time for the heavens to open. I managed to get this shot just before the rain came down in earnest.

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This panorama was made in Autopano from 15 images. I like the distortion the wide angle lens has given to the panorama. Almost 180º in this.

Caught this purple stock trying to escape through the fence. Almost made it too.

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We went to Linlithgow today. It’s been ages since we went there. The day was clear and sunny, so we took a picnic. Managed to get parked by the abbey, so we had a walk round it, just to be sociable. The view from the top of the tower was impressive, it cold. While we were wandering around I saw this bloke taking a rest from his maintenance duties and managed a useable shot.

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