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Photography Group One 1st May 2024
Ten of us met at the roadside Car Park in Finstown on a day with little wind and some low cloud but with the sun trying to get through. We set off to the Community Garden where we found lots of lovely colourful flowers out as well as tree buds bursting forth. The Burn was a great source of images.
Jocky Wood was painting a new picnic bench with the appropriately titled Wood Stain! He does a great deal of the work on the garden as well as his own just up the hill opposite.
Six of us then headed for Binsgarth Woods.
The track was muddy in places but the spring flowers were out all the way. There was Pink Purselaine, Wild Garlic, Wood Anemone, and the invasive Salmon Berry. Since the tree leaves were not blanketing the light, one was able to get good photos close up. The Burn had lots of interesting tree roots and hanging tyres and ropes from the kids' dare devil antics. Then it was back to the shop for rolls and along to Tom's house for a cuppa and a nice piece of cake. Thank you very much for that Tom and all the stories too.
The next meeting will be going to Westray on Wednesday 29th May for the day. Arrangement will be made nearer the time.
All in all a lovely morning, taking time to look at the flowers and listen to the Wrens, Willow Warblers, Chaffinches and Robins singing in the woods.
Keep clicking.
Walking Group One 25th April 2024
Five hardy souls collected today at Happy Valley for the first Hill Walk of the year .The temperature was cool with a North Easterly wind blowing and a hint of rain on arrival.
Off we set heading towards Russadale Quarry, spotting a Buzzard on the way.Turning into the footpath we remained sheltered from the wind all the way to the top of the hill.
The sun was out at the Quarry and a Greenshank was feeding at the edge of the Lochan. Then it was up the Peat road to the summit with spectacular views across Stenness and Harray Lochs, plus a view of the Closed Road beyond the Watch Stone. On the other side we looked over the Flow and down towards the Oil Platform and South Ronaldsay
Then it was back down after a stop for a snack and finally a walk around Happy Valley itself. The Daffodils planted by James and others were looking lovely and the Bluebells are days away from opening. Then it was on to a well deserved lunch at the Pier Cafe, having walked 4 miles and gone up 800 feet (and down again )
The next walk will be on Friday 24th May and hopefully more hills and views.
Keep moving.
Photography Group 31st Oct 2012
by Unknown - 20:57 on 31 October 2012
Eleven of us met up today and viewed Steve's excellent exhibition in the Loft gallery.He gave us the low down on some of his compositions and how he had got his results.He is an undoubted wizz with the camera and his results in black and white are outstanding.It certainly gave us all food for thought and with that with that in mind we retired to The Sands in Burray for lunch !
We viewed all the photos from the last couple of sessions at the Fossil Museum and Inganess . At the former, the multiple fossil fish stone and the UV lit stones seemed to have caught the eye while at the latter it was Rose Hips,the Coast Guard Tug and the wreck lying off the beach.Some "Field " entries were seen with post harvest lines of straw to the fore as well as some colourful wild flower meadows."Autumn" provided lots of inspiration from Basingstoke Canal with Autumnal woods,the Autumn Steam train special on the Speyside Railway at Aviemore,alongside many beautiful trees and leaves of all shades of brown to red and purple.Well done to all the many contibutors.
We then headed to a rather cool Eastside in South Ron where photos were taken of the church,the Beach,the roofless house and the Old winches as well as the carved Millenium standing stone with its enigmatic symbols .
I am investigating the next meeting that will be at the end of November.I will look into going to Orkney Brewery in Sandwick .More information when I have it.Meanwhile the project for this month is "Cloudscapes" .Land /sea can be included but the majority of the photo should be the skies with clouds featuring somewhere.On the return form Eastside,the sun came out giving a wonderful low light and giving the three of us in my car stunning sunset views from above the second Barrier.I am sure some will feature next meeting.
Keep clicking or, now that it is getting dark so early , perhaps I should say Keep Flashing ! (No, perhaps not ! )
Tim
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