Cramond Kirk

I went for a walk at Cramond today.There are lots of interesting things to look at-the boats in the harbour, the old buildings, interesting nooks and crannies, Roman ruins, and This-Cramond Kirk:

Waterfall

I was down at the Water of leith at Dean Village today for a short time-Until my camera batteries ran out.
Note to self: Always carry a set of spare batteries!!
Anyway, I was playing around with shutter speed, trying to capture that feeling of movement in the water.
This was my most successful I think:


Here are some others-not as successful.

Prom

Jack, all kilted up for the sixth year prom-looking very handsome!

Pheasant

This pheasant was strutting around at Dawyck-but it was some distance away, and so I had to zoom in. Unfortunately it is is a bit out of focus.

Rain

Last sunday we had a lovely time at Dawyck, but on the way home, the skies opened-
Summer in Scotland!!

More poppies

Following on from yesterday....

Dawyck

We were at Dawyck Botanic Garden again today. I was mucking around with the camera settings on my camera-mostly unsuccessfully-but I have learned some things, so that's the main thing, I guess. Today I was mainly playing around with meter mode-trying to learn about how this effects photos. I took some really BAD photos today. My focus is all over the place at the moment-don't know what's going on. Today's photo is not a good photo, but I chose it because I think the tree is particularly interesting. It is called Abies Delavayi and it has the most amazing and beautiful dark blue pine cones, and wonderful acidic green new foliage. Both look beautiful against the darker green, older foliage.