February Garden

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The weather so far this month has been very mixed to say the least! After Saturday's awful weather last weekend eldest and I did manage to get out and do a workshop on Sunday. The sun shone all day for us and it wasn't too cold...perfect for a day spent at the seaside. This last week has been very cold and there is more snow forecast and high winds for this week....I'm thinking the rescheduled workshop on Wednesday won't go ahead!

#1day12pics - February

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On Saturday eldest and I should have been doing a Long Exposures workshop but rain, thick cloud and generally miserable weather stopped play. As it was the first Saturday of the month it meant #1day12pics had to be done from home.

Silver Linings!

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The upside of the patio work being done is that the birdhouse and all the potted plants had to be moved out of the way...they ended up on the small patio next to the back porch. So now they are only a few feet from the window, great for getting close up shots with my long lens. 

Snow Joke!

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So most of Scotland has been blasted with snow recently with our neighbours in the Scottish Borders having several inches....we on the other hand had several flakes!

Much to my disgust!

Glingbobs and Tootflits

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No I haven't lost my marbles, just been for a walk in Pressmennan Woods.

Patio Progress

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I was eagerly awaiting our first snowfall last Tuesday...by dusk we hadn't had anything more than a few flurries, by 5.30pm the garden was white and we hadn't even seen it snowing!
Sadly by Wednesday morning it had gone again :(

Pardon Our Mess...

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....we're re-modelling to suit you better!

January Garden

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I took a jaunt around the garden with the macro lens a few days ago to see what, if anything, I could find!

Gods Own County!

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Playing catch up with some posts after missing several in December!

Feathered Friends

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I'm enjoying seeing all the birds eating at the feeders which Hubby keeps topped up daily...we have four or five and they are all emptied at least once a day. The yellow hammers returned on Saturday but we still haven't seen any goldfinches yet this winter, there are plenty of tits, chaffinches, robins and spuggies along with the bigger blackbirds and pigeons. We also have a sparrow hawk nearby which makes the smaller birds rather jumpy so I have to be quick with the camera.

Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!

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Gary and I took a jaunt down to the local lighthouse last week to test out some filters I'd bought him for Christmas...well I tested out the filters, he road tested his new lens.

December Skies

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There were lots of opportunities here to get great pictures of the sky in December...several days on the trot of pretty sunsets, the Northern Lights, and two super moons.

Twelfth Night

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As today marks the Twelfth Night and all my decorations will be taken down and put away for the season I thought I'd share a few pictures here to brighten up the day.

Boxing Day Constitutional

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After a very wet and miserable Christmas Day, Boxing Day dawned fresh, sunny and dry...cue a nice long walk with the dog. Sadly the first thing we encountered was a dead deer in the garden. I had seen it on Christmas afternoon but as it was so wet I didn't chase out after it with my camera. It must have taken shelter in a nearby shrubbery and we found it not 10 paces from where I had seen it on Christmas day. There didn't appear to be anything obviously wrong with it, although I thought it was limping on Christmas day....survival of the fittest I suppose.

Happy New Year

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Wishing you a belated Happy New Year and hope you've all enjoyed the festivities however you celebrate.

Apologies for my absence and the lack of photos in the last post...computer problems and Christmas preparations got in the way of my photography sadly. Thankfully the computer is now behaving itself and Santa brought me a new Surface Pro for blogging away from home.

Let there be Light!

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Part three of my photography course "A Year with my Camera" started this week and we're now talking about light. This weeks homework was to take several photos of the same object with the light source coming from different directions.

Frozen World

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No snow to speak of here but we've had three days of heavy frost, the garden has looked quite magical...although I'd still like to see some snow!

Telescopic Lens

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I love seeing the birds and and other wildlife in our garden so I needed a telescopic lens to get close enough. I decided a cheap one would do for starters and opted for the XC 55-230mm. With the birds now flocking to the feeders on a regular basis I've been putting the lens through it's paces.

Kit Lens

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When I bought my camera two weeks ago I chose the XF 18-55mm lens as part of the deal as opposed to the cheaper XC 16 -50mm. At first it felt very odd having all that weight on the front of the camera body but I'm getting used to it now and all in it only weighs about 750g....a sizable jump from the 230g of my XF1 but not as weighty as my sons Nikon which comes in at a hefty 1190g!

Third Time Lucky!

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Monday night was scheduled to be a humdinger for aurora watchers...however the weather decided not to play ball over most of Scotland and we also had the super moon to contend with.