photographs: people, places & things
Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 2 In Part 1 of this short series of blog post I wrote about heading off to Scotland to stay in Sallachy, a small hamlet just a few miles away from the Isle of Skye. This second part of this Scottish Highlands blog post covers […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 1 Over the years my wife and I have holidayed many times in a variety of locations across Scotland – in truth we’ve holidayed there probably more times that we can recall. We were definitely looking forward to this trip, partly because it had been […]
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Coming soon – visiting Skye & Lochalsh in the Highlands Check back soon for a series of posts following a very decent trip to the Scottish Highlands and a stay near the Isle of Skye
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City centre Manchester and visiting the Castlefield Viaduct. Manchester really is a great city to visit, whether it’s to see something specific or just to wander round. The last time I posted was back in December when we had taken the bus into the centre and enjoyed a wander and a bite to eat (you […]
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Night time use and pictures from the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone. I posted a few weeks ago about selling one of my lenses and buying a drone. The drone I bought and am using is the DJI mini 4 pro. It’s the first drone I have had and so have no previous experience to […]
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Wandering around Stockport – with its own ‘graffiti alley’ Stockport is an urban area and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester. It’s a place we often go to – primarily for shopping and occasionally just for a wander around and a coffee. It’s a pleasant enough, famous in the past amongst other things for it’s hatting […]
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Sparrowhawk: grisly food chain and the cycle of life The last time I wrote about a Sparrowhawk visiting our garden was back in June 2021. On that occasion the Hawk that had landed was using our garden fence as a convenient place to eat the lunch they had caught and killed. But a hawk in […]
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I sold a lens and bought myself a drone … DJI Mini 4 Pro For a while I have had a couple of Sigma telephoto lenses in my collection and that I use with my EOS 90D. The first telephoto lens I bought was the 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM (Contemporary) – described by Sigma […]
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Biting cold weather but fine walking in the Tame Valley Sometimes it can be all too easy to overlook what’s right on your doorstep. I suppose we are quite fortunate to have plenty of decent places nearby and that make for decent walking. One of these places is the Tame Valley and although we regularly […]
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Winter Wassail at Chadkirk Chapel keeping traditions alive My previous post other than a New Years greeting followed our trip to Chester last month. This latest post if a bit different as it was that time of year again when the tradition of the orchard visiting Wassail is brought to life at the Grade II […]
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