Catching Up

I have fallen behind a little with blogging my photographs, these are from Sunday the 6th Feb there have been more photos since then, i hope to get those on here tomorrow, i know you are thinking aye right Lucy, but now that i have said it it might happen.

The day started with lucy and katy going for a look round say no to plastic and granny would be proud vintage/craft fairs and then going for lunch in Oran Mor, the lunch was yummmmmmmy and very good value. We had chips and .........


haggis balls we also had nachos but by the time i got my camera out they were half eaten and the pic looked terrible.


After a delicious lunch we headed across the road to the botanical gardens where we had just missed another craft fair so we went into the Kibble Palace.
First stop there was the room with the carnivorous plants, i didn't see and venus fly traps but there were some other amazing plants and a spider.
I love the super macro on my camera, i think it might be my favourite thing about my
Fuji S602z.


Again with the super macro, look at the detail, the hairs look a bit like loads of rows of teeth just waiting for an unsuspecting insect. the colours are great, that might be because i am going through a bit of a green and pink rhubarb phase at the moment and these fit in nicely with that, i have just received an order of ribbon and buttons from Big Fish with a load of these colours in it, they are gorgeous, piccys of that soon .





I found this beautiful and a little erie at the same time, too many horror movies perhaps!


The next room had lots of these plants in different colours, these may be inspiring a new project!


the sign said they were called Aeonium, i know this because the sign was in one of the pictures, i would have never remembered that.




I say it again I Love Super Macro!



Tried to take a photograph of the gold fish, while trying to get a good photo i got a great sense of how amazing the brain and eyes are. The camera took a photo of the water the way it sees it, i couldn't get a good shot of the fish the way i could see them, i could focus in on the fish and not the reflection on the water and see the fish as clear as day (as clear as you could in that water) but the camer focused on it all!
Anyway, i really like this one, the colour and shapes of fish and the reflections look really good too.



The outside of the Kibble Palace, from the side.

We decided to walk home along the Kelvin walkway, seemed like the best option for more piccys.
Not sure what these ducks are, not the normal ducks i have seen in the past here!


These are the ducks i usually see, not these ones specifically but maybe a cousin!


Katy in the tunnel, you get a great echo in here but you cant catch that on camera.



Katy on a wall with another bridge in the background and a church, more of that in a moment.


Here we go this is the Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church.



Well i know that that was quite a few photos, i hope to bring you more tomorrow and catch up with the rest of the challenge so far. I have some fuzzy pics from the 3DS preview at the lighthouse and The Life Craft valentine craft fair.

Just Looked Out The Window...

I was going to blog about some pictures i took in the botanic gardens on Sunday, but i just looked out my window and saw this, it didn't last long but it was beautiful.
Hanging out of the window i snapped away before it was gone.








The colours were just gorgeous, it didn't last long, it is all just a deep shade of blue now. Funny how things can change so quickly, and such a beautiful sight lasted just a few minutes, i feel lucky to have caught it.

M is for Monthly Challenge

After seeing this M i think i may now have to look for an O, N, T and H.



A great way to start the day Breakfast Pie, leftover apple and blackberry pie form desert the night before, yummy. It looked so yummy i thought it deserved to be photographed, i did have to have a piece before getting my camera, i'm sure you understand.



Yesterday after having lunch with a friend i decided to walk home, having my cameras with me for the challenge i thought it might be a good idea! The batteries died in my big camera as soon as i turned it on so, on to my pocket camera, its not so good at taking photos in the dark, i got some interesting shots though.




I love these i think they are great.





I think my favourite of the day.



I really like these two, i was having a bit of a mess around with the camera settings, with my pocket camera i usually just point and shoot but night time just doesn't agree with it!



Seeing spots.


These are on the bases for the giant flowers and glow bright red.

One Month Challenge

I have decided to take on a one month challenge. What is my challenge? I will be taking my camera everywhere with me in the hope to catch those 'I wish I had my camera with me' moments. Why am i doing this? well my sister Katy decided to set herself this as a One Month Project for January, to fill an album and to learn more. I really liked the idea so now i have set myself the challenge of doing one too. I will be sharing my progress here on my blog, i will also be posting my photos on Flickr and some to facebook.

Today had been the first day i have really been out and about, here are today's photos...

It was a miserable wet, very wet day today but i still got some good images, i think!


This is the roof of the theatre at Mugdock country park and the roofs of some of the buildings round the courtyard.







I really like this shot....

and this one too.



This was my favourite piccy of the day, it was what this challenge is all about. As we left the park today, just as we were about to go through the door i noticed something on the bottom of the door, a little birdie was clinging to the bottom of the door. It let me get really close to it, it may have been tired or stressed that it had found itself inside! But i was so happy that i had my camera with me, i got such a close up. Challenge working!

These photos are all unedited