photographs: people, places & things
Drone shots from Scotland – Loch Linnhe & the east coast While the main blog posts cover our two-week route from ground level, taking to the air with the DJI Mini Pro 4 drone gave us a completely different perspective on the landscape. Framing these locations from a couple of hundred feet up reveals patterns […]
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Stonehaven & dramatic Dunnottar – Scotland’s exciting east coast Stonehaven was our destination as we crossed back over the Pentland Firth from Orkney. We had booked on the first ferry of the day (07:45) and headed east toward Aberdeenshire and Stonehaven for the final leg of our two-week Scottish road trip. You can check out […]
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Scotland trip Part 2: fascinating light on untamed Orkney Part 1 of the road trip saw us spend a really enjoyable five days in Fort William. But the main event for us was yet to come and the new experience of our trip to Orkney was in our minds. We didn’t take the most direct […]
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Happiness in the Highlands, Orkney and the east coast Scotland in October is straightforward enough. You can reasonably expect fewer tourists, shorter days, and plenty of damp weather. I suppose it’s fair to say you should almost always prepare for damp weather whatever time of year you visit Scotland. What I do get every time […]
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Coming soon to the rainycity blog… Visit Scotland epic castles, coasts and driving Routes. Words and pictures from a magnificent couple of weeks in the Scottish highlands, the West Coast, Orkney before finishing off on the east coast. The trip was altogether different from the last trip I wrote about, when we visited Liverpool and […]
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Liverpool – visit to the Western Approaches secret bunker This post follows a really decent trip we had last week to Liverpool. My last blog write up and pictures (on the rainycity.blog) followed a visit to the Wings & Wheels event. However in that instance we headed to the Avro Heritage Museum in Poynton rather […]
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Wings & Wheels weekend at the Avro Heritage museum – Poynton We recently called to the Wings & Wheels weekend at the Avro Heritage Museum in Poynton -a Cheshire town about 20 minutes from Manchester by train. The Wings and Wheels event was quite a contrast to the last trip I posted about when we […]
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Pennington Flash nature reserve – a short photo based post. We recently made another visit to Pennington Flash nature reserve in Leigh, Greater Manchester. We’ve been a couple of times before, and there’s a post from our previous visit available on the blog. Back then I described Pennington Flash as a large lake and country […]
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Tiny worlds: a look at garden life through a macro lens Garden macro A quick catch‑up from early summer, built around a handful of macro shots taken in the garden. Nothing complicated — just a quiet look at some of the small details that usually can slip past unnoticed when you’re out there watering or […]
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Manchester City Parade 2026: sun-baked crowds at the Etihad. ‘Manchester City parade 2026’ took place on a magnificent sunny day. It really was one of those days where the air was warm even before breakfast. Even the pavements that all too often shine from the rain, shimmered in the late afternoon heat as we headed […]
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