Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: north sea

This is up fairly near to where my mum lives, and where we did Christmas this year.

I'd come out to take some photos from Torry Battery, and barely paid any attention to the car on the beach. Until this happened! A small red car dashed off into the distance immediately after it started... There was a surprisingly small "pop" when the petrol tank went up. It was kinda fun looking through my earlier pics to see if I'd inadvertently caught anything naughty going on, but since the car on the beach was a bit of a blot on the landscape, I'd been avoiding it. View large to better appreciate the skeleton of the car.

...and it's not stiched properly, largely because I wasn't using a tripod. But the levels of gold hint at great possibilities. I'll add a link here to another pic once I've got it right :) I found out about HDR — High Dynamic Range — thanks to this pic: www.flickr.com/photos/cleever/155780779/ ...and there's more to read about it here: www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/discuss/40580

Boats queue up to get into Aberdeen harbour, just like aeroplanes over Heathrow. It's kinda surprising to see how busy it still is. I love the way most boats now have a huge area on the side marked out as a "rescue zone" — the harbour looks a bit like the base of International Rescue ;)

The day before the race to Stavanger, Norway

This is up fairly near to where my mum lives, and where we did Christmas this year.

A classic rockpool, ringed in granite. It's surprisingly far up from sea level here. I'm gonna have to revisit it when there's been a high tide or in a rainstorm; I'm really hoping there will be a waterfall through the gap in those big front teeth, er, rocks. Try this one on black: here .

Try this one with a black background: here .

Playing with the boat :)

The dolphins are starting to turn around and head home here, after a sprint along the coast and lots of leaping and playing :)

Each and every one of them is shouting, "Mike!" The little red blip on the left is the coast-guard, keeping the pirates out of Aberdeen harbour... This photo only really works when viewed at least "large": www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=100414447&size=l