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© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from February 2018. Although the weather right now in Scotland is unseasonably mild, I can fully appreciate the need for such a furry hat to cover the ears. I usually have to pull a beanie tight over my ears when shooting winter streets in Glasgow. Enjoy!
I took this in mid Summer in Iceland. it looks very cold even then. The grass makes good insulation in this colourful house.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from July 2019.
There may be a day or two this week that are below the average temperature for this time of year in the UK. June, however, was entirely above average in temperature and at some points 10 degrees Celsius above average. Climate chaos will only increase as the North Atlantic jet stream is destabilised by simultaneous increases in ocean temperature and decreases in arctic sea ice extent.
Take care everyone.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot from November 2019 and timely with the first properly cold blast of winter coming in from the East this week. Oh, and the shot got photobombed by a pigeon too! Wishing you all a great weekend of photography - wrap up warm!
Bearded Tits / Reedlings have to stay warm throughout the winter in the reedbed, so can really puff up their feathers to retain heat.
Taken on a misty morning.
JOSIE: I am going ICE-skating! I am wearing my INSULATED jacket and INFINITY scarf, my ICE-skates are INSIDE the box.
Plastic insulated screwdriver shanks are an electrician's friend. Less risk for shocks and electrocutions when you use these tools around electrical equipment. Always disable and lockout electrical equipment regardless of how well your tools are made for the job.
This one posted for the Macro Mondays 7/21/25 theme: Plastic
Many people have felt disconnected from themselves and their surroundings. But if these feelings arise regularly, you might have depersonalization-derealization disorder. At one time or another, all of us have found ourselves lost in our daydreams.
But if these feelings arise regularly, you might have depersonalization-derealization disorder.
It’s estimated that depersonalization-derealization disorder affects 1-2% of the population.
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But for some it seems to be a fully conscious decision.
Scarecrows scare me I think more than they do crows. It's another one of those irrational fears that's followed me since childhood. I can't even connect it to a specific incident. It just is. Wasn't the Wizard of Oz I don't think; that scarecrow was too playful. The ones that get me are the kind you see out all alone in a cornfield. Weathered effigies, coarse, handmade, usually bursting at the seams. And simply there, looming overhead, as if they're observing. This is truly a case where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. A withered field of corn is awesome. A scarecrow is freaking awesome. But combine them and the awesomeness is exponential.
Photographing scenes like this often has a way of insulating me from the full impact. It's that business of physically having a camera between me and my subject; it's sort of a buffer. That's something I try to guard against. I want to feel the full impact of whatever and rely on it to influence my artistry. After all, that's why I come to places like this in the first place. On this grim morning, the impact was full realized. At times I would just stop and gaze up in amazement at this scene I had concocted. The sum of all fears, the veritable straw man, floating eerily over the cornstalks.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from January 2019. Enjoy!
20230120_9181_7D2-100 Measure, Label, Insulate and Mask (020/365)
A possible image for the next Macro Monday's subject: Tape
65mm from top to bottom.
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Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos Caudatus
The long-tailed tit is globally widespread throughout temperate northern Europe and Asia, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone. It inhabits deciduous and mixed woodland with a well-developed shrub layer, favouring edge habitats. It can also be found in scrub, heathland with scattered trees, bushes and hedges, in farmland and riverine woodland, parks and gardens. The bird's year-round diet of insects and social foraging bias habitat choice in winter towards deciduous woodland, typically of oak, ash and locally sycamore species. For nesting, strong preference is shown towards scrub areas. The nest is often built in thorny bushes less than 3 metres above the ground.
The nest of the long-tailed tit is constructed from four materials - lichen, feathers, spider egg cocoons and moss, with over 6,000 pieces used for a typical nest. The nest is a flexible sac with a small, round entrance on top, suspended either low in a gorse or bramble bush or high up in the forks of tree branches. The structural stability of the nest is provided by a mesh of moss and spider silk. The tiny leaves of the moss act as hooks and the spider silk of egg cocoons provides the loops; thus forming a natural form of velcro. The tit lines the outside with hundreds of flakes of pale lichens - this provides camouflage. Inside, it lines the nest with more than 2,000 downy feathers to insulate the nest. Nests suffer a high rate of predation with only 17% success.
Outside the breeding season they form compact flocks of 6 to 17 birds, composed of family parties (parents and offspring) from the previous breeding season, together with any extra adults that helped to raise a brood. These flocks will occupy and defend territories against neighbouring flocks. The driving force behind the flocking behaviour is thought to be that of winter roosting, being susceptible to cold; huddling increases survival through cold nights.
From July to February, the non-breeding season, long-tailed tits form flocks of relatives and non-relatives, roosting communally. When the breeding season begins, the flocks break up, and the birds attempt to breed in monogamous pairs. Males remain within the winter territory, while females have a tendency to wander to neighbouring territories.
Pairs whose nests fail have three choices: try again, abandon nesting for the season or help at a neighbouring nest. It has been shown that failed pairs split and help at the nests of male relatives, recognition being established vocally. The helped nests have greater success due to higher provisioning rates and better nest defence. At the end of the breeding season, in June–July, the birds reform the winter flocks in their winter territory.
Population:
UK breeding:
340,000 territories
For nearly a year feral Little Cat hung around our house. One day I was able to capture a shot of her as she unknowingly came into camera view. That photo of her is in my Explore album if interested. She then disappeared for awhile and eventually returned with her kitten.
This portrait is of that kitten, now a young adult. He took up residence on my front porch where he wintered inside a large, insulated plastic storage box. True to his feral nature, he keeps me at arm’s length but will come when I whistle for him.
We have though, made a deal…he keeps the chipmunks, mice and voles in check and I provide fresh water and dinner along with the occasional piece of cheese.
I’ve decided to call him Buddy. So far so good.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Despite a little motion blur from his head movement, the rest being sharp, I still love the shot and the eye contact being given. Enjoy!
Close-up view of exposed portion of vintage Kenrite brand asbestos insulated appliance cord by American Insulated Wire Corp. of Providence, Rhode Island.
Detail of vintage Kenrite brand asbestos insulated appliance cord by American Insulated Wire Corp. of Providence, Rhode Island.