These two zebras were entwining their necks, oblivious to their human spectators.
This was my son’s first trip to a zoo (and our first time at Edinburgh Zoo), and far better than my memories of zoos as a child. The animals had more land to roam in, and there was much more focus on endangered breeding programmes than 20 years ago.
My son’s favourite part of the zoo? The climbing nets in the children’s play area. I guess real animals don’t talk and make jokes like at the movies…
I don’t live near an Apple Store. I had been meaning to travel to Glasgow to look at Macs for a while – my 2007 iMac is feeling slow these days when working in Aperture.
This Sunday it felt that the time was right.
The Apple Store had a number of touching memorials to Steve Jobs in the window. Flowers, notes and of course, apples with a bite out of them.
We will miss you, Steve Jobs.
Thank you Steve - Fuji X100, ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/125
Thanks for everything Steve! - Fuji X100, ISO 200, f/4, 1/58
We will miss you - Fuji X100, ISO 2500, f/11, 1/40
A shop display on Multrees Walk, Edinburgh. The first thing I noticed was no prices on display! I’m glad I mostly wear hiking shoes.
The Falkirk Wheel is a fascinating and beautiful piece of engineering.
Designed to replace a series of locks, boats float out along a viaduct from the top of a hill, then enter one of two “baths”, 180 degrees opposed on the twin arms of a wheel. The wheel then rotates 180 degrees, swapping the top and bottom bath. Out the boat moves, 35 metres below/above its start point.
I used my recently acquired B+W ND 110 filter to get some nice skies and reflections in the water.
I processed the black and white images using Nik Silver EFX Pro 2. I was pleased with the results, and plan to write something up to show my workflow with it soon.
P.S. I’ve had a few requests to show where this is, so I’ve included a map.
A room with a view,
And you,
And no-one to worry us,
No one to hurry us through
This dream we’ve found.
– A Room With a View, Noel Coward
To my girl, on our third wedding anniversary.
I find these warning signs almost comical in the way they portray electrocution. I also managed to trip over a “Warning floor may be slippery” sign today.
We recently visited The Forbidden Corner, near Leyburn in Yorkshire. I’d visited a few years earlier, but wanted to take my wife and son.
It’s a fantastical place, where strange labyrinths and mazes intermingle with giant beings in the forest, and my son loved it. Although I took my camera, there is a lot of getting wet that’s part of the fun, and I ended up putting my camera away so that I could leap around with my son as he screamed with delight every time he activated a hidden water jet and got us sprayed.
In a quieter part we stumbled across these models playing cricket.
