July 2004 – St Ninian’s

Another fine clear day brought me up Mossy Hill to take this photo looking down towards St Ninian’s Isle and Tombolo.

June 2004 – Peerie Jeems

June brought some fine weather.  I grabbed this pic of my nephew Jeems sitting in the garden (grass needing cut as usual).

May 2004 – Travelling North

I grabbed this photo while heading north one day.  I seem to think that we were on our way to Yell that day.  The image is taken looking north around Laxfirth somewhere.

April 2004 – The Fog descends

At the beginning of 2004, Scatness seeemed to be the place to be.  This photo was taken at the Loch at the end of Scatness that you can see in the previous two pictures (Feb, Mar).  This time though, it was a foggy night.  This is the sun about to set behind Fitful Head with Aidan looking out over the loch.

March 2004 – Purple Scatness

By March the snow had gone and left us this wonderful colourful sunset.  Again taken out at the end of Scatness, looking towards Fitful.

February 2004 – Fitful Snow

February 2004 brought some snow.  I took a wander out to the end of Scatness and took this picture looking towards Fitful Head.

January 2004 – ATP Lining Up

2004 brought with it this nice silhouette of an ATP at the 09 end of 09/27 at Sumburgh Airport.

December 2003 – Fair Isle Sunset

Taken on 30/12/2003.  Aidan and I had walked out to the point of Scatness and encountered a lovely sunset with Fair Isle on the horizon.

November 2003 – Darkness

No photos.  Not one.  Why not?  I have no idea.

October 2003 - Halloween

Had a double-take with this photo.  Aidan appears to be a lot older than 3 years and 8 months in this pic.  Anyway, here he is just before we set off guising around the poor neighbours.

September 2003 - Holocaust

Oh dear, a poor month for photography.  The image below is the best I can muster.  Looks more like a nuclear explosion than anything else.

I think it was taken somewhere around Spiggie or Scousburgh.  Difficult to say really.

August 2003 – Sumburgh Head

Crouching down in a field full of crops I took this picture looking out towards Sumburgh Head and Lighthouse.

July 2003 – St Ninian’s Isle

July 2003 brought a nice sunset at St Ninian’s Isle.  I believe that this was the day that we went over and met the family when Euan & Karen were down with the caravan.  I could be wrong though…

June 2003 – A skinny boy!

What better way to kick this off than to find a picture of a skinny lad from 2003.  Aidan would have been 3 years old when this was taken at Scatness, Shetland on top of a pile of gravel that he enjoyed sliding down.

New Project…

Looks like I am going to resurrect this blog again for a little project I have.

I am going to try and pick out my favourite photo at the end of each month and post it here.  These photos will not be technically correct or even nice to look at.  These are pictures that I have chosen for a reason which I may or may not share on these pages.

I am going to start from June 2003 as that is when I received my first ‘real’ digital camera.

I have discovered after looking through my images that I have a lot of absolute crap, some months I don’t even have any images, so I will make do with what I have.

A post a day...or nay

I soon realised it was going to take too long to spend time working with the photos that I wanted to use and resize them and then upload them to this blog.

Because of this I set up a new website --> http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/

The new site allows me to easily catalogue any new photos I upload and has a commenting section for anybody willing to do so.

This blog might get updated one day, if I can find enough time to get it together!

Sands of Time

So much for photo a day. That has been about 3 months now since my last post. Put it down to being very busy... Here is one I took recently at Spiggie Beach.

Coromandel Peninsula

Another New Zealand photograph today. This one was taken at Shelly Beach, Coromandel Peninsula.


Not long after this a lady asked if I was German, shortly after that a man asked if I was Irish...of which I am neither! Either I had partaken in so much alcohol that my speech was so badly slurred neither could understand me or they were both stupid. I am going for the latter!

Burra!

Here is another two pics to get things up to date. Had a couple of hours to spare today and it was a nice day (for Shetland) so we headed out to Burra, ate our Sausage suppers, took a few pics and headed back again.

Leap Free

Seeing as my blog seems to be turning into more of a 'photo a week', or 'photo a month' I have decided to post a couple of pics today.


This is a picture I took of a dolphin in Napier (yes, another New Zealand image). The little bugger seemed to be trying to avoid the camera and this is probably about the best shot I got.