The Harbour
Posts tagged ‘Scotland’
The Beautiful Evening
A wonderful sunny afternoon in Banff, Aberdeenshire
The Departure
The Shop
The Canoe Girl
The Throw
The Young Piper
The Kilted Master of Ceremonies
The Heavy Lift
You have to lift the weight and toss it over a high bar…
The Piper
The Kilt Man
The Caber launch…
Reference my last post: and in case you were wondering, a caber is something like a telegraph pole that you have to pick up, carry and then throw into the air. Not something you should really try at home…
The Girls Get Ready!
The Cornhill Highland Games
We went to the Cornhill Highland Games today to watch highland games (tossing the caber, hammer throwing (I think that is what it is called), tug of war and so much more. We were also entertained by the very excellent Portsoy Pipe Band.
Here’s a bit of video showing the games…
The Other Sodding Tractor
Please see my previous post and then join me as I try to record the tranquil sounds of the River Deveron, near to Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It clearly isn’t my day for field recording! Today is a public holiday and I would expect any self-respecting farmers to take a day off. Not in Banff. So please enjoy the tranquil sounds of the River Deveron passing you by and the delightful sound of a f**king tractor pull a rake around a nearby field. Using my directional parabolic mic (DM), I can hear the sounds of tractors and other industrial noises several kilometres away.
The Hat and the Dog…
The Explorer
The Stream Meets the Sea
Join me on the beach at Portsoy, Scotland where the stream that flows down from the hills crossed the beach and flows into the sea.
The Sound of Portsoy Beach
Join me and listen to the waves crashing onto Portsoy beach. Portsoy is in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and was the setting for a Peaky Blinders episode last year. Portsoy has some wonderful walks in and around this most delightful town. The harbour is also well worth a visit. By the way, I used my panoramic microphone (1 dish, two mics) to record the sound.
The Boats
The Boat
The Creels
The Dovecote
See inside the dovecote (where doves are kept) – next post, please click here.
The Sunset
The Sharyn Louise
The Net Mender
The Ocean Lee making for home…
The Faraway Yacht
The Northern Viking Arrives
The Gorgeous Gorge
Beautiful Scotland…
The Prop Fixers
The boat on the slip…
The Shipyard at Night
The Ocean Reaper
The Rope Catcher
The View Over The Water…
More images of Portsoy here.
The Sharonelle BF 18
The Andy Capp’s Hat Fungi
For those people who remember Andy Capp and his creator Reg Smythe. The fungus is the right shape for Andy’s cap!
The Slippery Slope
The Just Reward
The Chicken on the Rock
The List to Port
The Watchman
The Deep Ocean
The Boat on the Slip
The Just Reward
A regular at Macduff Harbour
The Little Toot
The Boats in the Morning Sun
The Other Screw
The Harbour
See a large versions of the images below here.
The Rois Mhairi
The Ski Jumper
The Sea Ranger
The Lawret
The Sparkling Star
The Forest Fungi
The Splash of Orange
The Freshly Painted Bottom
You just can’t beat having a new coat of paint on your bottom…
The Harbour at Night…
The Boat in the Sunset
The Midnight Sun
This image taken way past midnight. Up here in the north of Scotland and, at this time of the year, the sun tries to stay with us for most of the day…
The Teddie Boy, Beached
The Ocean Way at Sunset
The Tiny Trawler
The boat, waiting…
The Fisherman
The Harbour, Portsoy
The Nimble Departs
The Nimble Fisherman
The Empty Harbour
It’s all very quiet at Macduff Harbour today…
The Pontoon
The Chance Inward Bound For MacDuff
Or, as we used to say in the days when merchant ships carried Radio Officers – QTP MacDuff (in Morse code of course).
The Harbour
All quiet and peaceful at MacDuff…
The Other Rusty Gizmo
The Little Boat
The Storm Over Banff…
The Snow Storm in May…
Snow in May? Who would have believed it?
The Lifting Tackle
The Crane Operator
Cranes, these days, controlled from a radio-control box. Clever stuff!
The Rusty Crank
Don’t forget to lubricate your parts…
The Hole Maker
It’s my hole and I’ll dig if I want to!
The Houses on the Clifftop
The Rock Pool Diaries (5): The rock pools at low water…
Probably the best time to visit the beach. When the tide is out, all is revealed!
The Rock Pool Diaries (4) – The spinach seaweed…
Again, this seaweed probably has a proper name…but it looks like spinach to me!
The Rock Pool Diaries (2) – The colourful rocks…
Colorful if you’re in the US! Rocks in the bottom of rock pools here in Banff, Scotland. Wonderful colours and plenty of sea snails hiding between the rocks.
The Rock Pool Diaries (1) – The Moonscape!
It looks like the surface of the moon but I think (but don’t know) that these little critters who live on the rocks down on the beach are barnacles. Somebody will, I’m sure, correct me if I am wrong.
The Rock Pool Day
I have a 100mm lens that I hardly ever use but I took it for a spin on the beach today and took photographs in the rock pools when the tide was out. And so, get ready for the rock pool and dog series!
The Pals…
The Fisher Boys and the Serenity cosy on up…
The Ocean Challenge
The Missing Wheels
After this posting, there was some debate about where the front wheels for this crane truck were. This image solves the mystery. The front wheels are set back and, in front of the front wheel assembly, there are the extendable jacks which keep the truck from tipping over when the crane part of the truck is lifting heavy weights.
The track less travelled…
The Lee-Rose
One of the smaller fishing boats in the harbour…
The Crushed Balls
Ouch!
The Trapped Ball
Can be painful…
The Ocean Way
The Alongsiders
The Dress Shop
The Ocean Bounty around sunset…
The Fisher Boys at rest…
The Just Reward Snuggles Up…
Richard Broom Photography 