Tales of Home [9]

I'm cautious about "the attention it deserves." You can never tell til you see the final edit.
For all I know it may end up being another story on "mad americans" that they trot out when they need something amusing on a bad news day.
(Not horrible actually. I'd definitely share that story too.)

{{ Big cruise ship which picked the perfect timing to head on up the Clyde this morning }}

Beautiful colours I wish my camera was that good.

The air-con is on full blast and the room is still 27 degrees. That's like being in the hottest British Summer but its in your house. ffs

{{ Well summer has arrived here too finally, hot last few days but not what you'd call hot Figg.  But me, I already look like someone has deep fried me

Anyhow bunch of summer pictures for you, I'm going to put them in spoilers only because there's quite  a few and will save the page taking a week to load! }}

Blairmore Pier.

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{{ edit add- added a few more pictures as the image host was playing up for a bit there. }}

It looks downright balmy!

love the close-up bees and flowers ones. (this is a bee)

{{ Thanks Figg.

I hate good weather there are too many photo opportunities and not enough time!

Anyway grabbed these this morning on the way to the hairdressers (my better half insists I get more than 1 haircut in a year! ) That's twice I have to open my sporran now when if I just wait long enough nature seems determined to relieve me of it anyway! . And worse, she has scuppered my childhood ambition to let my eyebrows grow really big and bushy like Gandalfs so I can display my full crabbit at the world by bristling them at it! I don't understand the fairer sex, what's not to like about that! Anyway where was I? Oh yes, pictures! }}

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{{ Summers buggered off again! But at least it left drama behind }}

I like the seaweed pics.  Very fast camera to capture drops in motion.  And a good lens to zoom up that close to a seagull(?) from what I have to assume was a safe distance.

{{{ The seaweed pictures are using the macro setting on the zoom lens combined with a very fast shutter speed.
The seagull was actually close enough to me (within 10feet) that I could use the macro setting for it too just to see what would happen.

The zoom is pretty good. If you look at the first picture in the last post I made, the one with the building and land silhouetted against the sky, now look at the picture immediately below that taken with the normal lens, see that distance set of hills way off in the distance on the far side of the River Clyde? Go in about a fifth of the way into the picture from the right hand side and that buildings about there on top of that hill. }}

Went to a concert last night... good heavy French band called Gojira. Probably one of the best drummers I have ever seen.








Cant hear very well today.

I can understand a band wanting the music loud, but damaging loud is just stupid.

That is what earplugs are for.... I just didnt buy any.

You shouldn't NEED to buy earplugs.

A metal concert isnt a metal concert if you cant feel it in your ribs!!!

If they would just double every voice 6 octaves down you'd get the feeling you'd want without any aural damage. At least I think there would be no damage.

{{{ Trip to Glasgow today, so grabbed a few snaps along the way. Bit of an overcast day but lent a bit of drama to the sky at least.

Crossing the Clyde





If you come for a visit Ringo via ferry this is what you'll be on, can be quite interesting in Novemeber!











Glasgow...



..complete with traditional traffic cones on statues placed by late night revellers.



Part of the outside of the museum of modern Art



Coming back in to Dunoon }}

{{ Bunch of random pictures from the last week or so. }}

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wow fab photos Petty

the traffic cones one is awesome

{{ Thanks Figg. The cones on statues is a bit of a Glasgow thing, especially the Duke of Wellington one - if you visit chances are you'll find at least one statue somewhere adorned in such a fashion. The Council take them down, every week drunks climb back up them and plonk a new one. Its sort of expected now its being going on decades. }}

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/why-glasgow-loves-to-adorn-the-duke-of-wellington-with-cones-as-council-removes-giant-stack-from-statues-head/

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/its-taken-just-10-days-for-glasgows-charles-rennie-mackintosh-statue-to-be-dressed-with-a-traffic-cone/

{{ Well this is proving a spooky night at work! Something kept tripping the hotels external lights. Suspecting an animal of some sort and in the hope of an interesting picture I took my camera outside, only to start feeling very odd almost immediately.
I then noticed a pair of bright gold glowing eyes staring at me from the bushes! Now there is plenty wildlife potentially it could be with reflective eyes round here, from cats to birds, but though it was in the darkest part I thought bugger it I'll try taking a picture anyway, long exposure, it'll be a bit blurry but I might be able to at least make out what the thing with the eyes is.
What I got was a few pictures, which predictably were a bit blurry, no sign of any animal, but there is a tall shadow shaped, well person shaped, and odd thing is even though the angle of the pictures changes, the amount of blur changes picture to picture, its exactly the same in each one! Ill post when I get home, assuming I get home! - as hard to see in detail what I'm looking at on the small camera screen, maybe when l get home Ill find it was just an optical illusion.
But think I might just stay inside until sun up now! }}

{{In case anyone thinks its just my shadow few reasons for why I dont think that's possible. One the lack of light sources, the only available light was the orange lamps that or in the hill and was the only ambient light (why the pictures are tinged orange) the lamps start about 30 foot behind where I was standing and are a fairly dull orange light. Where the shadow is was, from my pov, almost pitch black. I was just trying to get pictures along the bottom of the hedge-line where Id seen the eyes in the vague hope of whatever it was showing up in them. Now there are shadows being cast, the cones are casting shadows, but only about twice their own length, and they are going in a slightly different direction. For it to be a shadow of a figure they would have to be standing not much further forward than the closest cone and if it were mine it should be casting slightly to my left, like the cones.
The other reason is I moved a few times to get different parts of the hedge and the shadow stays where it is, if it was mine it should have moved with me and cast onto different stuff. And lastly because I ran back in to grab the camera in a hurry it had the wrong lens on, the big zoom lense, but fearing whatever animal it was would scarper quick smart I just grabbed it as was- so whilst it looks like I took the pictures only a few feet from the shadow I was more like 10-15 ft away from it.
And the final best reason is that I could see my own shadow, it was right in front of me on the road, not 15 ft away. }}

It was watching you, it's got plans.

{{ Certainly adds an extra element of suspense to going back in to work tonight! }}