Happy Birthday Emily

Edinburgh

I went into the city today to meet my friend for lunch.
On the way I took some photos.Edinburgh had some fabulous old buildings-
and the best skyline!
I really like these photos showing one skyline of traditional bulidings
reflected in the windows of a modern building.
Nice juxtaposition:









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Botanics

I was at the Botanics today. I took hundreds of photos,
which was just as well because there were lots of duds among them.
But that's OK because I was on manual most of the time.
I was mucking around with different exposures.
Here are a few:



Looking up:


Looking close:


Cacti:

Random shots I liked:

And finally from an exhibition about cycling-

as you can see I was fiddling with the white balance:

Walk

I am so lucky.
I live just 5 miles from the centre of one of the most attractive
and interesting cities in the world, and yet just a two minute
walk from my house is all this:





Who wouldn't love living here in Edinburgh?

Abstract

I was playing around with things today, trying to take some abstract photos.
So this photo is dimpled glass in my front inner door:



Then one is some dowels in coloured room scent liquid stuff,
and the other two are of a loofah type thing in the bathroom.

Emily

Watching a film on her laptop..

Lamp

How amazing that all these images are of the same lamp.
Looking down on the lamp:



Different perspectives, different camera settings, different
editing:

More looking down: