Monday 26 November 2012

London - Borough Market and nearby

Photos from March this year.  The area around Borough Market near Southwark Cathedral

An Oyster Bar, opposite the market

Early morning sun catching the street lamps outside the Bunch of Grapes, a Victorian pub, the modern Shard in the background

A colourful display of vegetables

Thursday 22 November 2012

Scotland - Grey Lag Geese & Sunset

These Grey Lag Geese were found down a single track road overlooking Fangamore Bay to the north of Tarbet.  What a  great setting and such change from those more commonly found in our parks and fed by the public.


A dramatic sunset later that evening at Ardmair

Monday 19 November 2012

Scotland - Lobster Pots Birdlife

Again from June trip to the NW of Scotland

The quay at Tarbet where you catch the boat to the bird island of Handa.
 Lobster pots where stacked in the car park by the quayside.  I was amused by a busy and noisy family of House Sparrows which were perching on and in the pots (safe from predators?).

The abstract shapes and lines of the stacked pots.

A female or juvenile Linnet (I think) taking advantage of a pot as a perch

Monday 12 November 2012

Scotland - Memories of June

It is November and I am still going through the photos taken in Scotland in June. Various photos taken towards the end of my break.

Hebredean Sheep on the road in Assynt with Suilven in the background.

A Fritillary resting on the heather - I am afraid I can't tell whether this is the Small Pearl Bordered variety, or the rarer Pearl Bordered species

A view of Ardmair

The vivid blue of a very small flower in amongst the heather

Thursday 8 November 2012

Scotland - Loch Assynt clouds and light

A few landscapes of Loch Assynt in June on a cloudy day
 
A patch of sun lights up the middle distance

Ardvreck Castle


The light coming perhaps
 

Sunday 4 November 2012

Autumn Spiders

More Spiders in my Bedforshire Garden this autumn
 
A spider in its water droplet covered web



 
A larger specimen
 
Another spider making repairs



Thursday 1 November 2012

London - Misty October Thames

Photos on a misty morning on the River Thames

London Bridge and the Shard disappearing into low cloud 
 Tower Bridge and the Pool of London

South Bank in mist