Walking on Long Strand the other day we doubled back across the dunes and back along the road. It’s a conservation area, and to promote plant biodiversity they have horses grazing the dunes over the winter. I looked up and saw these two cresting a large dune, silhouetted against the overcast sky.
I haven’t posted any photos for a while. Just going through some of my shots of a trip to Scotland during all the snow in January, and thought I’d post a couple of them up here to share.
This is a willow tree outside our apartment looking out over Loch Rannoch… real winter wonderland stuff.
…and this is a shot of Schiehallion taken from the banks of Loch Rannoch early one morning. It was the only day we saw the mountain; for the rest of our trip it was shrouded with low cloud.
A couple of wildlife shots pulled out of the archive… the first, a lacewing, was shot on my old, old 3.2 Megapixel Nikon Coolpix 990 back in August 2003 – amazing for Macro work, and still going strong to this day.
The macro is something I miss on my Nikon D90 – and a decent macro lens is on the wish list.
The next was taken the weekend I got the D90, on a shopping trip to Cheshire Oaks outlet village. I was outside playing with my camera while my wife hit the shops. There were some starlings picking at bits of food discarded by passing shoppers.
While they aren’t everyone’s favourite bird, starlings have some amazingly iridescent plumage, and the detail is amazing.
Spotted this sign attached to the gate at the dock on Sherkin Island recently:
Wonder what the equality ombudsman or whoever looks after that sort of malarkey would make of it… 
? Not so much a glass ceiling, more a glass windscreen, I suspect!
View from our hall window the other evening… amazing light and a fabulous brooding sky. It’s a “grab shot”… but one that captures the unpredictability of the West Cork summer.
The girls next door on their way from the milking parlour. They pass right by our back wall… how’s that for country living .
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