Gulls are members of a large, widespread family of seabirds. Often known as seagulls (though no species is actually called a seagull, and many are found far from the sea), they sometimes get a bad reputation for stealing chips. But gulls are intelligent, adaptable and often beautiful birds. [source: The Wildlife Trusts] It is also…
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Photo challenge run by Paula
A Tall Ship
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn…
ship-shape
This unusual combination of cables and cranes is used for wakeboarding I believe. Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. (Like water-skiing, but using a rectangular shaped board). Usually pulled by a motor-boat, here on Siblyback Lake on Bodmin Moor there is a…
Black and White Sunday: Charlestown
A port built around 1791 by Charles Rashleigh to service the then thriving fishing and China Clay trades. Upon completion, Charlestown was a model Georgian “new town”. By the 19th Century various associated businesses were established in sheds and warehouses around the harbour such as pilchard curing, shipbuilding, brick making and lime burning, and the population exploded to…
Black and White Sunday: Through
An easy option. The view through my garden fence. And if you would like to see other interpretations then please visit Paula.
Black and White Sunday: After and Before
High tide in Porthleven Does your focus change in one photo to the other? Does colour enhance the composition or distract you? What changes? I’d like to know your impressions. And if you would like to see more After and Before images then please visit Paula.
Like a bird on the wire
One of my favourite things to photograph since moving to Cornwall is the countryside around me – the hedgerows full of wild flowers, the hills, the sky and the sunsets, the birds and tonight they all came together in this silhouette. Farewell Lenny, your songs will always be a part of my life. Black and…
Cornwall in Colours 