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Thank you Jim, the castle is in wonderful condition. I have placed the tree to hide modern accommodation that “spoiled” the medieval look. Ken

Tuesday's trip out to photograph Puffins led me close to Alnwick ( The l and w are silent and the stress is on the A [Anick] ). Probably more famous as a film set for the Harry Potter films it is a stunning castle (11thC) and the 2nd largest inhabited castle in England. Ken

A visit to the Farne Islands yesterday. Puffins.

We had a few days staying with our elder daughter in Manchester. On this day we visited the Lowry Art Gallery in Salford (Manchester). Lowry is famous in Britain but probably largely unknown outside of it although his work sells for huge sums. He painted the industrial North West of England when...

This castle was built at the same time as Brough castle but the odd pronunciation in Cumbria gives us Brough pronounced Bruff and Brougham pronounced Broo am with the a being very short with the stress on the oo. The river is usually much higher and faster than this but as it flows out of a...

Thank you Trent

Hi Jim, partly the weather but I have been busy doing other things as well. In the end we had 7 weeks without rain, with a huge high pressure blocker over Denmark. Every day the atmosphere got "thicker" and the visibility worsened. Unfortunately we also had winds every day so no chance of...

Hi Alan. There are a string of castles along this route all built by the same ruling family. Few pre-roman structures until you get to the far North where the Roman's didn't bother going. Ken

Hi Michael, the castle was one of the defences against cross border raids from the Scots

Thanks Jim

Thank you Alan, early spring greens are beautiful here. Sorry for the lack of responses, I have been busy doing other things. Ken

Thanks everybody, I am really busy at the moment and do not have any time to reply. Ken

Inverpolly mountains, Assynt, NW Scotland. Ken

We have been staying with my daughter in Manchester for a few days and I spent a couple at the coast, mostly for seascapes but I couldn't resist trying to photograph the gulls with my Tamron 28-200. Probably a herring gull but am open to suggestions. Ken

We have had blue skies and no rain from the 6th April to the 23rd May so a little rain and some clouds was a good excuse to get out and about with my camera. There has been a fort on this site for almost 2,000 years. Firstly the Romans, housing up to 500 men, and then the English after they...

One of the Yasawa islands Fiji Wya island, Fiji A little closer to home now Scale Island, Lake District St.Herbert's Island, Lake District Derwent Island, Lake District Lastly Eilean Donan it is actually the island that the castle sits on that is called Eilean ( Gaelic for island) Donan...

Sutherland Falls, South Island, New Zealand. I was not able to get closer due to landslides and the imminent danger of further slides. This was in the middle of a 2 month dry spell, very unusual for fjord land, so the flow is well down. The entire falls have a drop of 1904 ft but this is only...

I returned to the same location as last weeks image and tried again. This time merging a faster shot 1/8s in with the usual 1/3s allowing more texture to show in the fast moving parts. Ken

Shot earlier today on a local stream. It hasn't rained here for 5 weeks and the forecast is for at least another 2 weeks of no rain but this little stream flows out of a small lake so some water is still flowing. Ken

John these are Coots, they are incredibly aggresive, they run across the water surface without taking off chasing off other Coots.