A new year and a new photo thread to keep us entertained through the months ahead.

My first addition is something suitably seasonal - a wintery scene taken in the Amsterdam woods.

All contributions very much welcomed, and if the photos we've seen in previous years is anything to go by, we've a lot to look forward to.

Enjoy!

Some Flamborough Cliffs Pics, Great Day out, Stunning views, plenty of bird life. Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes a few Puffins and Gannets, Skylarks, Kestrels and a Peregrine (sadly no photos of them all)

A few from todays dog walk 🐕

Seaside adventures at Scheveningen in the Netherlands...

Summer soul do at ours last satdi, great people great music,just loved it ♥thanks to all who came Xx baz n shelly 

6 minutes ago, baz1 said:

Summer soul do at ours last satdi, great people great music,just loved it ♥thanks to all who came Xx baz n shelly 

Is that artificial grass, Baz?

Yes steve !👍 I look all day at burnt scorched grass but it got to be said,mine looks bang on 😀 and green 😂.bazza

Not quite great pictures but just wanted to share pics of a couple of old school benches that work where throwing out ... ( they are slinging 15 of them away so I grabbed them all ) . 

Taken a while to do and I will deffo do a better job on the next ones I do ,  but these two are for a mates 60th down in Cornwall weekend after next .. Hope the surfs up and the weather stays fine as it’s two weeks as usual for six mates and families camping . 

 

At last I'm able to do a decent walk after my bypass, maybe not great pics but things of interest along the way...First pic is of a set of carry in/carry out steps thought to be one of the few remaining in Lancashire and a throwback to when cotton was spun at home, cannot remember exact details I have the info somewhere but cannot find it, bales of raw cotton would be delivered up the steps and the top floor of the cottage would be where the spinning into cotton thread was done and then carried out down the steps. Second photo is taken from Scout Moor opposite my house and shows Holcolmbe Hill with it's tower and Winter Hill behind to the right. Third and fourth pictures are on the Irwell Sculpture trail, sadly both the Three Kings and the Picture frame are falling into disrepair, the Three Kings is a homage to Lancashire's Industrial heritage I believe ,there was more to the picture frame, some sculptures behind it but they have long gone and rotted away as has the bottom part of the frame.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 22, 20186 yr by Twoshoes

One from my twitter feed.

 

43 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

One from my twitter feed.

 

Very stern looking sea eagle mate

Steve 

5 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Very stern looking sea eagle mate

Steve 

You wouldn't fcuk with her mate would you!

 

21 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

You wouldn't fcuk with her mate would you!

 

I'm saying nowt my friend.  Might get swooped down on by it's passing cousin 

Steve 

1 hour ago, Peter99 said:

One from my twitter feed.

 

There's some footage on YouTube of some in Alaska I think, on someone's deck of their home, sharing it with their cat (very brave cat).

14 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Very stern looking sea eagle mate

Steve 

I think it might be a bald eagle Steve, but I'm no expert.

18 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

I think it might be a bald eagle Steve, but I'm no expert.

Your right Dave thanks.   Don't know why I said it was a sea eagle.  Senior moment.  

Steve 

16 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Your right Dave thanks.   Don't know why I said it was a sea eagle.  Senior moment.  

Steve 

White headed sea eagles have a white head (the clue is in the name) in your defence, and are a little more common to Europe.  

Think my rockery looks fabulous this year 😘 atb baz

Wouldn't expect anything less mate. 

Steve 

53 minutes ago, baz1 said:

Think my rockery looks fabulous this year 😘 atb baz

To be honest Baz, there's not a lot there that you could call rockery plants (sedum and maybe gazanias at a push), but it does look good.  The yellow echinacea put on a rather stiff display (what with being metal).  What was at the back? If it's a veratrum, then I'm impressed, if a foxglove or verbascum less so.  On closer inspection I'm certain it's a verbascum (79%)

Dave

Edited July 27, 20186 yr by TattooDave
because I can

3 hours ago, TattooDave said:

To be honest Baz, there's not a lot there that you could call rockery plants (sedum and maybe gazanias at a push), but it does look good.  The yellow echinacea put on a rather stiff display (what with being metal).  What was at the back? If it's a veratrum, then I'm impressed, if a foxglove or verbascum less so.  On closer inspection I'm certain it's a verbascum (79%)

Dave

Verbascum dave 👍 wanted it to look a bit aztec but dint get near that either,my favourite place to sit when sun is out just love it 👍

Edited July 27, 20186 yr by baz1

3 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Wouldn't expect anything less mate. 

Steve 

Thankyou sir 👍hope you n lou are good,going to soul liberation in aug steve if ya up t nowt 👍 take care and hope to see ya soon. Baz n shelly Xx

23 minutes ago, baz1 said:

Verbascum dave 👍 wanted it to look a bit aztec but dint get near that either,my favourite place to sit when sun is out just love it 👍

I like the Alstroemeria, they are at least from Peru, try Eucomis, though put them in a container as they might not be that hardy with you.  Mirabilis jalapa ought to work too, easy enough to grow from seed, and once happy will self seed elsewhere in the garden.  A yucca might give you added structure too.

Great day on Widemouth bay beach last week..

Edited July 27, 20186 yr by Mal C

Not my photo, but pretty special, a Mama Merganser with her creche of 76 ducklings

NY weird attraction..

Ed

10 hours ago, tomangoes said:

NY weird attraction..

Ed

I take it the various levels swivel?  If so I'd have messed it up a lot more

On the elevated garden walkway... I never touched it ! But it looks that way.

Here is a sneak preview of what may be a new observatory style deck on a new tower around 34 and 10.

Ed

Tigridia's, from a packet of Lidl's bulbs.  I've grown them before in colder climates and their flowers were much smaller, these were at least 3" across if not more.

Day of the dead girl at a recent tattoo convention.

21 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Not my photo, but pretty special, a Mama Merganser with her creche of 76 ducklings

Brilliant, the duckling procession!

here’s my duck picture,

“8 chick wall, mother duck shoots from out of the area...! “

Edited July 29, 20186 yr by Mal C

Daughter on Ellis Island earlier this year.........

 

Hope its ok to share this.

 

On 29/07/2018 at 09:31, Steve S 60 said:

Daughter on Ellis Island earlier this year.........

 

Lucky Ellis mate. Not only has a island but your gorgeous daughters there as well . Trust you are well  

Steve 

1 minute ago, Winsford Soul said:

Lucky Ellis mate. Not only has a island but your gorgeous daughters there as well . Trust you are well  

Steve 

Yep, she's lovely.

Pete

Not posted on this thread for awhile , so here goes with one from last Thursday  night storm rolling in

Steve

Edited July 30, 20186 yr by Winsford Soul

Another one but I would love your opinion on this to see if your in agreement, I personally  think that the cloud looks like a Scottie dog 

Steve

 

10 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Another one but I would love your opinion on this to see if your in agreement, I personally  think that the cloud looks like a Scottie dog 

Steve

 

It must have run off Steve!

4 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

It must have run off Steve!

🤣🤣🤣

25 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Another one but I would love your opinion on this to see if your in agreement, I personally  think that the cloud looks like a Scottie dog 

Steve

 

I can see it steve 👍 shelly couldn't till I biggered it 😂. Baz

Chaffinch in the sunshine

Steve

On 29/07/2018 at 02:55, tomangoes said:

On the elevated garden walkway... I never touched it ! But it looks that way.

Here is a sneak preview of what may be a new observatory style deck on a new tower around 34 and 10.

Ed

Ed

Just now, tomangoes said:

Ed

 

Just now, tomangoes said:

Ed

Sorry...not sure why this happened..

Anyway. The new observation deck will be the biggest glass bottom type in the world..

New York is a construction site at the moment.

Literally 20 or more massive buildings going up. 

Ed

A few pictures from my walk today, the Tower on Holcolmbe Hill has been taunting me for over a year every time I've sat in the garden or looked out of the window, finally felt strong enough after bypass to give it a go today, bloody knackered when I got up there, the Urn caused quite a bit of disagreement when it was first installed as part of the Irwell Valley Sculpture trail as many thought it had nothing to do with Ramsbottoms history, the Stag is in some ones garden on the hill, not sure what it's made of but it looked pretty impressive, the roots of the trees on the path have always impressed me, the photo doesn't really do them justice, the view is looking across the valley to my house, it was wonderful to be out walking again and maybe in the near future I won't have to stop quite as much when the fuel runs out...

A couple from our weekend in Paris. 

On closer inspection of Steve's clouds I saw this....

Just to prove I'm not barking...

1 hour ago, TattooDave said:

Just to prove I'm not barking...

Dave.  As though anyone on here would say that mate. 

Steve 

Last day in the big apple and spotted this.

Just love the weird and wonderful!

Ed

Chester with Lake Ullswater in the background.............

 

There is a thing Im always after in Photos, what I call dynamic perspective, I think makes the diference from a nice shot, into a fooking great shot, most times its about shapes, and how elements in your pictures live within the frame, that dog 'Chester' and the lake are doing it!!  cool pic, might loook nice in B&W, and cropped a tad Steve...

Ive been doing lots of canal walks this week and they are covered in a green carpet..

 

 

Edited August 1, 20186 yr by Mal C