photographs: people, places & things
Wembley 2024 FA Cup semi final scenes Man City v Chelsea The weekend saw Manchester City make another trip to the national stadium at Wembley. This visit was for the FA Cup semi final game against Chelsea. I think this was maybe our 19th or 20th trip in the last dozen years or so which […]
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Visit to Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye. Part 4 – drone video This the final addition to the short series of posts following a recent trip to Scotland. This post has five short video clips filmed with the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone that I bought earlier this year. In the previous parts in […]
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Visit Lochalsh & the Isle of Skye. Scottish Highlands part 3 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. Part 2 continues my account of our trip and then […]
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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 –Â 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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