The Jim Clark Rally shot passed the Scottish Borders Website Design office at Cothill on Saturday. The road was sealed off most of the day, and prior to the event starting there was an eerie silence with the occasional wail from the sirens on passing marshal vehicles. I attempted to take photos of the speeding rally cars (which were coming into view from behind a hedge at over 100mph) but only managed to get two cars in the middle of the frame (both rather blurred)!
I came across this tightly packed grouping of thistle plants whilst out for a walk the other day. The bright overhead sun and dense clusters of spiky leaves created an intense array of textures and shades.
I came across this rather macabre site during a walk in the Lammermuir Hills. Not something I’d want as desktop wallpaper or hanging on my office wall, but an image I felt compelled to capture anyway. I can only assume that the site is regularly used by a game keeper or hunter to butcher their kill.
I went for a walk at the Hen Poo (Duns Castle) and managed to get close enough to the swans to capture a few photos. Because of the light, shadow and angle I took the photos at, I managed to get a detailed picture of the bright white wing in stark contrast to the oil-black water in the background.
After about three days of freezing fog I captured this photo of a barb on a fence. The ice crystals must have had the perfect weather to keep growing, resulting in this ultra barbed wire, which almost looks like white iron filings stuck to a magnetised wire.
I noticed after the rain last night that a leaf on one of the hosta plants in the garden was holding onto numerous droplets of water. The rain drops were held in what looked like suspended animation across an entire leaf, each one an inverted reflection of the garden.
I was lucky enough to capture this photo of sunlight spilling through a small copse of Scots pine trees whilst out walking by the Tweed. The mist hanging in the air was just thick enough to defuse the light, capture the rays of the sun and heighten the shadows cast by the nearest trees.
I had a meeting over in Peebles the other day and went for a walk up Black Meldon afterwards. I envisaged being enshrouded in the cloud for the entire duration of the walk, but just as I neared the summit the sun broke through and I managed to climb above the cloud level. On turning around I was greeted with the beautiful view across the Tweed Valley, much of which was submerged under a lake of white.
Whilst out walking late the other afternoon I came across this fungus surrounded by a carpet of vivid green moss. Because of the low light and frost, the brown ringed fungus had a peculiar bluish tinge to it; a stark contrast in colour and texture to the background moss.
I captured this dramatic sunrise not long before moving east to Berwickshire. The Tweed Valley is a highly photogenic area, but when you are presented with such a stunning sunrise it’s hard to take a bad photo! This was taken just west of Peebles.
