When I visited here on Sunday there were a swarm of skateboard “dudes” tearing the place up. Managed to get a few decent photos of them too, perhaps for another time.

Last year I had the pleasure of photographing a wedding on the Tall Ship Glenlee. Obviously it’s not terribly roomy inside, and the light isn’t great, however I managed to do alright.

This was one of these shots that I knew what I wanted to achieve before I even took the shot. I like working in that way, as it gives a singular focus about the task in hand, and you know when you’ve got the right shot and can pack up

It was where I went 10 years ago when I was first messing around with a tripod and trying out long exposure night photography. There’s so many nice angles to things that you can almost guarantee a decent pic by the end of the night.

Wandering around, it felt a bit like catching up with an old friend. Some things have changed but mostly it’s the same as it was, and still a cracking place to take some pics.

I also mucked around with a panorama, which is something I’ve been wanting to try out. Unsure if I’ll upload that one or not!

Sometimes I forget about a few pics, then rediscover them when am browsing through my library. This is just a wee silly shot, and I’ve experimented with some Aperture vignetting / defocussing in order to give a more rustic feel.

Anyway, one of the things we were keen to do was try to establish some sort of routine with baby Jacob, who has been driving us demented by sleeping all day and playing all night.

We achieved some level of success, and he now seems to regularly wake up at 6:30am.  This also coincided with sunrise over the beach at Lamlash, which looked over to Holy Isle in Lamlash Bay.

I managed to take a fair few sunrise shots whilst over, however this is perhaps my favourite, which is the distillation of a few different ideas that I had, over several mornings sunrises

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As I had a spare hour or two last night, I thought it’d be good to pop down and take a shot… I was really tired, but it was good to get out again even just for an hour or two.  Would have preferred for there to be some nasty storm clouds in the sky, however I can’t pick the evenings quite so easily any more

I took this shot this afternoon, while Amanda changed him for going out.  Really liking the expression on his face.

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Saying that, all our visitors are making a terrible fuss of the dog, too, so he shouldn’t complain too much.

I’m delighted to announce the safe arrival of Jacob Graham, born on 29th June 2010, at 11:09pm  He weighed in at 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg).  Both mother and son are doing spectacularly well, and am  hopeful they’ll get out today.

This could mean that the photographic direction of this site changes a little of the next month or two… for those of you who prefer landscapes to baby pictures, then I can only apologise…

Still no news on the baby front.  Fingers crossed we get an appearance this week!