Time to sail away……. Though not gone for good! After 2,070 posts and many thousands of visitors over the five years, it’s time to say goodbye to this window on my world, though I will le...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/wishing-you-goodbye-hello-goodbye/
My picture library here at WordPress is almost full and this may be my last new image upload until I decide what to do. I could just repost from my early images, after all there are over 2000 ...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/fragmented-facade/
Though this picture breaks some exposure rules it somehow captures the atmosphere of this outdoor market in Glasgow, and the smoking chimney suggests a different age. To me this is how the yea...
It often surprises me that with a few editing steps we can be taken back to the feel of earlier times, and this reminds me of Picture Post, a marvellous weekly picture magazine of the 1950s. ...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/central-circulation/
We often walk here and this is a March view on the path that follows the shore at Mossyard by the Fleet Bay.
Andrew Matheson is a potter and a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. I was fortunate to be able to visit his studio in the centre of Lichfield a couple of weeks ago.
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/andrew-matheson/
The sand and rocks catch the light along the West shore of Fleet Bay, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
The weather in Scotland is definitely getting to be more spring like so I thought I would post this colourful picture of anemones: one of my all time favourite flowers.
A clear indication here that fruit and vegetables keep you happy. A street portrait taken in Leek market square, Staffordshire, England.
The café at Foxlowe Arts Centre in Leek, Staffordshire, and we are about to be served with our drinks by the charming volunteers that run this excellent arts centre…..
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/two-hot-chocolates/
On the edge of the wild wood, and the trees are having a knees up…..
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/tree-struggles/
Ava and Ethan together with my wife and Toby the dog sit in the sunshine overlooking the Irish Sea at Knockbrex viewpoint.
A picture taken on a recent visit to Leek Market in England. My image library on WordPress is 99.5% full after 5 years of posting and over 2000 posts and I’m not sure if I will continue when...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/leek-portrait/
Spring, so they say, is just around the corner, and it’s true that the daffodils are now flowering in the garden, so they must be in bloom along St Mary’s Isle, though I haven’t been the...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/springtime-on-st-marys-isle/
A fine old old group of ancient trees, still in their winter garb, stand in a field on the Glengap Road.
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/old-trees-near-redfield/
The road from Borgue village towards Kirkcudbright runs through a landscape type called ‘drumlin pasture’ which is characterised by low rounded hills that were formed by the retreating ice...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/landscape-near-borgue-2/
I used to walk here with the dog when visiting my parents but after they passed on I have had no cause to follow the road that leads here. Once it was a winding moss covered path over tree roo...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/doach-woods-2/
While visiting friends in Staffordshire recently we made a return visit to this Victorian Sewage Pumping Station near Burton-upon-Trent, and here is one of the proud volunteers who have worke...
Borgue is a small village south west of Kirkcudbright and the church stands on this low hill.
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/the-church-at-borgue/
A visit to the small market town of Leek in Staffordshire was memorable for the number of people in the town’s covered market who agreed to have their portrait taken. This gentleman is Frede...
https://smithiesshutter.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/frederick-england/