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Happy New Year to one and all..... I'm thinking that 200mm is my new 135mm, since the demise of my beloved Jupiter11-a.... Canon 5D, Canon 200f2.8 L Given some Kodak Gold treatment in Lightroom.

Both shot with a 28mm lens... Clouds and silver linings... by Douglas McMann, on Flickr This birch tree stands not five minutes walk from my home, and I feel compelled to photograph every time I pass it....! Birch by Douglas McMann, on Flickr

Someone famous once said, "never work with children and animals"...how true, they never stay still for longer than a nano-second...!!! First at 200mm, second at 50mm...

Whilst at Gartmorn Dam at the beginning of the week, spotted this heron landing on a dead tree just as dusk was falling... "Old Nog" was the name given to this bird in "Tarka the Otter" by Henry Williamson which we read at school and, for some reason, it has stuck in my head ever since...

Gartmorn Dam and the Ochil Hills. Too big a scene for my 200mm, so resorted to the phone... I fired off some with the 200 to stitch together when I return home. Be interesting to see the comparison...

A current "project" for me...restoring a 1964 Garrard Lab 80 turntable.. ...not completed, but it is singing again...

Well here goes with the new 200mm....:-) This cactus (one of two we have) flowers every year on the lead up to Christmas. One is a peachy colour, the other is deep red. Every year I promise myself I will take a photo of their blooms, and every year (until now) I have failed to do so... The...

I have to admit to having been a "Kelpie Virgin" until recently...I just didn't see the pull to visit a piece of sculptural art adjacent to a very busy motorway and endure crowds of noisy folk, all trying to get the best selfies they could, as they munched into burgers purchased from the nearby...

Folks, Just a quick update to let you know that I am still in the land of the living...:) This grand-parenting malarkey seems to have replaced the full time employment I was in until my recent retirement...so any thoughts of spending my time just taking photographs has gone "oot the...

Really enjoying my free time, and witnessing the changes in the garden as the Summer moves on...

Managed a small visit to Balloch, on the shores of Loch Lomond... It rained.... John Muir came this way, apparently... L4148 I wonder if GS still loves KS after all those years...? Their backs to the "view"... Waiting for the weekend... Bridge View.

For the past 9 years, I've driven by this view twice each day, heading too and from work... Every day it is different...and I've OFTEN stopped and taken a shot... This coming Friday I retire, and will no longer pass this way with anything like the same regularity... So please forgive my...

Ben Rinnes, Morayshire... ...managed a sneaky photograph whilst "working" today...;) Jupiter-11a, 135mm, 3 x stitched. Beinn Ruaidhneis by Douglas McMann, on Flickr

After beating hasty retreat from grass cutting because of inclement weather (pi&^%ng down!), I ventured out again during a brief respite to snap this iris... Canon 5D Mk.1, Jupiter-11a 135mm. After the rain... by Douglas McMann, on Flickr

A few from yesterday, wandering around a disused railway in the town where I grew up...dodging the broken Buckfast bottles, discarded needles and the occasional junkie eyeing up my camera. Sad times.... ...not quite Nirvana. ...the words of the prophet are written on the subway walls...

Returned to the Alium in our garden this afternoon which have just burst open...used the Jupiter 135mm this time instead of the cheap plastic Canon... ...as anticipated...:-) by Douglas McMann, on Flickr

Out in the garden yesterday, where I saw this group of Allium ready to flower... Hopefully I can return on a similar day once they are in bloom to capture the change... Anticipation... by Douglas McMann, on Flickr

Having recently been made aware of numerous "reverse searching" options for images, I had a try with Pixsy.com (other search engines are available) and specifically requested info from my 500px and Flickr accounts.... Well... It appears a number of my photographs are being used for holiday...

Another from yesterdays sojourn... Sitting on a 50 ft cliff overlooking the Moray Firth, this ruin oozes atmosphere with the sounds of the waves and the seabirds... The "banding" on the horizon is a snow shower making it's way over the firth... Findlater Castle by Douglas McMann, on Flickr