Took a wee jaunt to the Five Sisters Zoo this afternoon. Didn’t expect to get many decent photos because it was a dull, grey day but was pleasantly surprised. The zoo itself was great. It’s not big but there is a good variety of critters. And, given that entrance and some lunch in the zoo came to under £20 for me and my daughter, it is genuine value for...

You may have asked yourself how I made the iPad backgrounds that I have posted herein. Maybe not. But I’m going to tell you anyway. I used Google’s Picasa. I have all my photos organised in Picasa, so that makes things easier, but you don’t need to have your photos imported for this to work. It’s a very simple three stage process. 1. Pick a...

Just did a whistlestop tour of all the photos I took in 2010 ( there are a lot ) and picked a favourite from each month. It was tricky in quite a few months but I had to plump for something. So, here they are, some that have appeared online before, some that have not, not necessarily the best, but personal faves. Have a very happy and healthy 2011...

Being an Edinburgh resident it is all too easy to think the attractions on your doorstep are only for tourists. Luckily, having the excuse of a young child to entertain during the holidays gives me the chance to try out some of the available entertainment. I’d been to the Edinburgh Camera Obscura before many, many years ago and enjoyed it but I was very, very...

In these cold times, thoughts turn to the warmth of the summer and, perhaps, travelling about Europe in a banger. If you’re feeling cold, why not think about signing up for a banger rally across Europe. Both the Sucata Run and Sucata Split are open for teams to register. In the last few years I’ve been lucky enough to do both and, as my reader will know,...

How about this for blatant search engine whoring? Well, in my defence, I was putting some of my photos as backgrounds on my iPad wallpaper, so I thought, why not share with the world! I’m like that. Sharing, thoughtful etc. Now, to be honest, I can’t really decide what works best as an iPad wallpaper, so I’ve tried a bit of a range of things to try....

Being an amateur photography type, most of what I end up shooting is opportunistic and grabbed during the course of doing something else. I very rarely go anywhere just to take a photograph. Obviously, as my family will testify, I am keen on going places where I might have a chance of getting a good photograph. So, you go somewhere and there is an ‘interesting...

A very pleasant Sunday morning stroll round the Botanic Gardens, turned out a little too bright by the time I’d had my breakfast (the bacon roll in the John Hope Gateway is highly recommended). Anyway, here’s a small selection of the shots that what I took. You can download free hi-res versions of these from MorgueFile...

This post first appeared on the Sharing Travel Experiences site here. Introduction No visit to Kraków is complete without a trip to the spectacular Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the mine continuously produced salt from the 13th century until 2007 and is now a major tourist attraction with over 1 million visitors a year. I went on a cold...

As my reader will know, after a brief and entertaining flirt with Microstock, I now give all my photography away for free download. This post is to mark the milestone of passing 500,000 downloads across three sites, Morguefile,  sxc.hu and, more recently, RGBStock. I did this post on 31st August 2008 to mark 250,000 downloads. That gives a fairly decent average of...