Kieran Turner's photos

So my mad dash from Inverness to Cardross, to get a look at, and some shots of, St. Peter's Seminary, was somewhat doomed by the facts that I got up a bit late, and kept stopping to take pictures of the beautiful scenery on the high road above the east shore of Loch Ness. I just made it before total and absolute darkness, and once inside, I realised I was in very real danger of falling down a drain! So I shall have to return another time... This, then, is all you get for now, and is only possible because of my new camera's amazing high sensitivity. This was taken at ISO 25600!

"Mum, c'mon, do we really need to fly? Couldn't we just chase some sticks instead?"

I just had the sense that these two were kinda cuddled up to one another, watching the world go by. With possibly another one muscling in over their shoulders to get a view! ;) I should work for Disney.

I say "unexpected" because it took me months to stumble upon it. Liverpool is associated with docks, of course, and the famous Albert Dock has been restored for the tourists and a few small boats. But there are dozens of other docks, and the main roads tend to be separated from them by wonderful old warehouses and factories. It was exploring these that led me to find this rather posh little marina hidden away in the south-east of the range of docks.

At first glance at this pic, I thought for a moment that there was a horrible moire pattern on the red boat, but it's actually a reflection of the ripples in the water :)

So it turns out Liverpool has a neat little marina in one of the old docks! I must try out the bar there one of these evenings and see if it's in any way reminiscent of Brighton's Master Mariner . It could be very cool, very tatty, or somewhere in between in "Beefeater" style... hmm... what are the chances of anything other than the latter, oop here? ;)

A slightly freakish, crowded display of stuffed birds in London's Natural History Museum.

Marta tells me that this packaging has been basically unchanged for years. It's nice that it now comes back into fashion as "retro". I love it. And the chocolates are pretty awesome too :) Shame I didn't quite get the depth-of-field right. Can't be fixed since I didn't wait to check before eating some of them...