Bits and Bobs, but mostly Bobs

photography

archaeology

: New photos, old camera I recently worked with a class of primary school children learning about the First World War …

: Golden turd on the Edinburgh skyline from the National Museum. It perhaps doesn’t look quite …

: Took some photos of several day’s accumulation of frost just half an hour before the thaw set …

: Lovely moonrise this morning.

: Just processing some colour film from last summer to feel a bit warmer.

: Spent the last few days mostly on my own being ill. At least the view outside the kitchen window is …

: Figure from the remarkable collection of architectural fragments at Elgin Cathedral. I took this …

: Starlings were eating rowan berries in the garden this afternoon.

: Met this anxiety filled couple at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow this morning. Apparently they …

: A self-sown sunflower in the vegetable patch. Hopefully there'll be more next year.

: Colchicums coming out in the sun

: Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline in February.

: The Wallace monument, Stirling in silhouette against the winter sky back in March.

: Some earth, or, if you prefer, a bit of the Earth from just a few cm.

: Thorny gooseberry with baby berries.

: Experimental image made with homemade RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) setup. The aim is to …

: A photo of a photo (negative) of me taking a photo of myself. The camera viewfinder shows a mirror …

: Part of a late Victorian/Edwardian electrical switch excavated along with some of the wiring in a …

: Another none too recent view from Calton Hill

: Another old film developed I have had another go at film development. This time a colour film taken some time ago on an old …

: Another photo, no longer out of time I have looked at the rest of the film I developed the other day. This image comes before the beach …

: Snowdrops starting to appear in the garden now

: A beach out of time I finally got round to developing a couple of the films I took sometime between 2019 and 2021. I …

: Head found in field! I found a bit of a head whilst walking by a ploughed field. Poor thing.

: Rather cool find in an old graveyard Just spent a couple of days finishing off an excavation in the …

: Why do cafes so often put a paper napkin underneath the food they bring you? Why is it thought so …

: Wonderful February I happened to be passing a nature reserve yesterday at lunchtime. A Nature reserve with a very good …

: Deliberate? Surely?

: So now we know just what stone circles are all about: …

: Big sparrows?

: ** The effects of freezing fog Some evening, freezing fog the other day had a pleasing effect on the …

: A Melancholy Find Looking through a secondhand book bought years ago by my father-in-law, probably in London, I found …

: Ritual Deposit? We’ve found lots of evidence of drinking and smoking in Dunfermline’s old graveyard in the past: old …

: Trowels As Decoration “Photograph us at work,” says I to a young archaeologist (she’s nine). This is what I got. Quite …

: My Horse Well, I say my horse, I’m just borrowing him really. He likes to visit schools with me. …

: The Mason’s Gravestone This 18th century gravestone commemorates a Dunfermline mason and his wife. Not so long after it was …

: Bit Of Old Glass Graveyards have been places to dispose of more than just dead relatives. In Dunfermline we’re …

: Holes Found In Rock According to legend these holes were made to support standards displayed during an 11th century …

: Here’s The Beach The Forth Rail Bridge provided a suitably dramatic backdrop to a beach combing session; part of a …

: A Brick On A Beach But which beach?

: Falkland Fungi Feeling sorry for myself, wandering in the woods near Falkland, in Fife, I came across these. Are …

: On The Roof I finally found my way up to the roof garden of the Scottish National Museum in Edinburgh and it was …