Here's looking at you

Bindweed

I've been ruminating on my photography as I head towards the end of summer and a change over to A Winter Lens. The biggest change for me has been making more use of the scanner to make images. As a result I've done less seeking out of scenes and become a collecter, ambling along the sea shore picking up things that interest me. Here's one of the better results - the common bindweed. For gardeners it's a problem but it is very elegant.

View to Burntisland

I'm not usually one for picture postcard images but I did like these scenes looking across Pettycur Bay with the evening sun going down over Burntisland.

A Scottish Embrace

"Late in the summer of 1263 King Haakon of Norway, intent on conquering the Scots, set off with a sizeable fleet of longships for the Scottish coast. Gales and fierce storms forced some of the ships onto the beach at Largs in Ayrshire, and a Norwegian force was landed.
Legend has it that at some point during the invasion the Norsemen tried to surprise the sleeping Scottish Clansmen. In order to move more stealthily under the cover of darkness the Norsemen removed their footwear. But as they crept barefoot they came across an area of ground covered in thistles and one of Haakon's men unfortunately stood on one and shrieked out in pain, thus alerting the Clansmen to the advancing Norsemen.
His shout warned the Scots who defeated the Norsemen at the Battle of Largs, thus saving Scotland from invasion. The important role that the thistle had played was recognised and so was chosen as Scotland's national emblem." http://www.historic-uk.com/

Interesting stuff. And did you know that England shares the floral emblem of the rose with some other countries?

Iraq, Iran and the USA.

Play

I showed this photo on filmwasters.com and someone posted that I'm lucky to have memories like this. They're right; a lovely, oblique reference about the beauty of photography too.

Daisy Heads

The petals are dropping off most of the flowers that grow along the beach, such as these giant daisies. Tonight I took my 6 year old son out to look for animals in the woods. He'd been asking to go all day but when we got there he wanted to go home because he was scared. We laid out some monkey nuts and left, eating our biscuits on the way home. The sea was crashing over the sea wall - as the season changes so does the tide.