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...

Finally got round to posting a selection of photos from the summer holiday. Two things stood out about the photography on this holiday. The first is the number of times I ended up shooting in the middle of the brightest days. We called ourselves “Team Mad Dog” as we always contrived to be out in the midday sun. Also, there was one photo I didn’t...

A little out of sequence as I’ve not blogged any holiday photos yet, but hey ho, on we go. Twas a great Sunday up at Blair Drummond and many of the animals were up for a pose. Here’s a small selection. This Sea Eagle was most impressive and very kindly sat and let me click away like mad. The Saker Falcon was even kind enough to stare straight at me...

This post first appeared on Sharing Travel Experiences just before this year’s Sucata Split. As August and this year’s Sucata Run are approaching, I thought it was worth a repost here to try and encourage more teams to register. The 2010 Sucata Run registration form is here. * Bank holiday weekends are traditionally opportunities to get away and take a...

A glorious Saturday out at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune. Here are a few of the photos from the day. Concorde The main attraction is obviously Concorde. Well preserved in the hangar but it’s not the brightest place to take photos. The dizzying array of buttons in the cockpit. The compact interior. The new 707 exhibit lets you get a good...

Hadn’t planned to go to the zoo this Sunday but I saw the news about the new baby Tapir so thought I’d go along and see if I could grab a shot. Sadly, a grey, drizzly Sunday but delighted to say that Kamal the baby Malaysian Tapir made an appearance. As ever, click on any image to download hi-res for free from MorgueFile. This is the baby Tapir is...

At the risk of getting a little repetitive, another photo set from a quick Sunday jaunt round Edinburgh Zoo. Good to snap some animals that I’ve never got before. As usual, click on any image to download the hi-res from MorgueFile. The rhinos were being very shy. One was asleep on his back, the other was quietly eating some hay inside. Managed to long lens...

I don’t often make self-portrait appearances herein but this photo made me laugh so I thought I should post it here ( and it might look better on black). I took it for my daily image on BlipFoto. Thanks to the boy for helping me get it set up. For the technically minded, I did this by wrapping my black photo background round my head, putting a strobe in a...