Tag Archives: Scotland

The Last Museum⤴

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The Last Museum says it is “the largest search engine for museum art. It uses semantic search, allowing you to search for artworks by theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine”.

Visit the Last Museum and have a look around – pretty amazing, huh? Share something that you found with us, or make some art based on what you find and share that.

I spent ages looking around, first at Scottish culture and then searching for specific terms. Amusingly, a search for Findhorn (as we’re just home from holiday there) brought up this picture of Bembridge on the Isle of Wight (in copyright, so not posted here). I don’t have any photos from my time there, we left such a long time ago. But here’s a pic I took last week of Findhorn Bay, with the same sort of composition

Findhorn Bay
Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Into the Sun⤴

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Make a dramatic photo at sunrise or sunset.

I was in the car driving down the A9 at 10am today, so I grabbed this one from Flickr and tooted it. Findhorn Bay earlier this week, as we were walking home.

Findhorn Bay
Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Accidental Photo Art⤴

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Invariably I take unintended photos when grabbing my phone or those weird compositions featuring a blurred thumb selfie. Can you make/shae art from an accidental or unntended photo?

I usually delete any blurry pics I take, but here’s a long exposure one I took at the weekend by mistake. It was very windy!

Windy Findhorn
Windy Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

I headed over to Lunapic to artify it

Artified Findhorn
Artified Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Lasts⤴

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“Lasts: The last trip to the pool. Or the lake. The last hike. The last popsicle. Capture your warm weather favorites before it really cools down!” Lisa Truesdell

This week we’re up in Findhorn on what will be our last seaside holiday of the year. On Saturday I took this photo as we walked along the sea front.

Sunset at Findhorn
Sunset at Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

5 Card Flickr Story⤴

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Time to write a 5 card Flickr story  If you have done one before, you know it is fun. If not, you are in for a treat. Need examples? We haz examples.

I couldn’t make it work, though, I kept getting errors like this:

Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘<br /> <b>Warning</b>: Undefined array key’ at line 1 in /home/cogdog/subdomains/5card/utils.php:239 Stack trace: /home/cogdog/subdomains/5card/utils.php(239): mysqli_query(Object(mysqli), ‘SELECT * FROM c…’) /home/cogdog/subdomains/5card/play.php(175): get_image_info(Object(mysqli), ‘<br />\r\n<b>Warn…’) {main} thrown in /home/cogdog/subdomains/5card/utils.php on line 239

So here’s my own 5 card Flickr story, from 5 pics I took yesterday.

Driving up through the highlands, in torrential rain, we saw a rainbow

Rainbow
Rainbow flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

A wagtail watched us eat lunch

Wagtail
Wagtail flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

The view from the Ecohouse is stunning

262/365 Findhorn Bay
262/365 Findhorn Bay flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

We walked up to the pub as the sun was setting

Sunset at Findhorn
Sunset at Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

And came home by the light of the moon

Moon at Findhorn
Moon at Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today, show your favourite time of the year!⤴

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Today, show your favorite time of the year! You can draw us a picture, share a photo you’ve taken, or even write us a poem about it.

No Googling though. This is DS106

I love all of the seasons, but the autumn colours are spectacular. Here’s a picture I took at Ross Priory at the weekend

Acer in Autumn colours
Acer in Autumn colours flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license