Pot Hole

Underneath the multiple layers of disintegrating tarmac on this city back-street, it’s possible to see the original road surface of granite setts still sitting perfectly in place.

I’m old enough to remember when driving over city streets like this one meant car tires rumbling loudly over the regular pattern of smooth-worn stones making a very distinctive sound, so it’s nice to see that underneath the modern road surface they still exist after all these years!

This particular pot-hole is actually quite deep so hopefully will be repaired soon, but is surprisingly circular in shape so I captured it with my phone camera while I still could 🙂

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles or Curves

Beach Stones

Beautifully rounded beach stones, smoothed and textured by the tumbling of the waves and collected as we walked along the shore – a lovely (if slightly different) way to be reminded of nature’s beauty 🙂

Washing Up Water

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week asks for something you make use of every day, so I wanted to find something a bit different…

This is my un-emptied kitchen sink washing up water sitting in a grey plastic basin, surface vibrating gently as the washing machine underneath the counter was building up to its fast spin. I grabbed my phone and captured the shapes made, and was really happy with the effect!

Definitely something I use every day – well, not the same water, obviously, but the basin remains the same 🙂

City Structures: Inverness

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week asks for city structures, so here is a view of the City of Inverness in the North of Scotland, taken from the River Ness. Within this view we have several buildings including businesses and homes, a couple of churches and a castle, and a road bridge crossing the river, taken tonight on my way home from work 🙂

Hostas Unfurling

Looking down on my hostas unfurling themselves as they push up through the soil – perfect for this week’s Cees Fun Foto Challenge with the topic of Crooked or Squiggly lines 🙂

Oddball Image

A few weeks ago I captured this oddball image of Christmas lights strung along the road reflected in a piece of rained-on metal – it was a really blustery night and the string of lights was blowing all over the place, so it was a bit hit-and-miss as to what turned up in the final frame, but I really liked the distinct red and green stripes in this one! 🙂

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Oddball

Which Way to the Hospital

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge last week asks for a ‘Which Way’ image or two – so here is a photographic representation of my trip from home to our local hospital to visit my dad 🙂

Which Way? Along the street past the roadworks…

Which way? Across the footbridge crossing the river…

Which Way? On the bus to the hospital…

Which Way? The hospital bus stop…

Which Way? Up in the lift to reach the ward…

Kayak Water Polo

When walking along the Caledonian Canal at Muirtown Locks over the new year I saw a group of people playing what seemed to be kayak water polo in the canal basin – it was gray and raining, and the colours were really dull, so I brightened up the images with an online art filter post-processing effect 🙂

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water Water Everywhere

Colourful Kayaks

Colourful kayaks in a rack for this weeks Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Four colours or more 🙂

Pink Roses in Winter

Most of my rose bushes have already been pruned for the winter, but there were a couple of buds left on one or two stems and it seemed cruel to cut them back before they had a chance to bloom, so I left them alone… So here are the pink ones in flower, much smaller and far less showy than in the summer months but looking pretty enough nonetheless 🙂

Flower of the Day

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Mainly Two Colours