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Paul Macleod
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An aging photographer, mostly taking pictures around his little village in Ayrshire.
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Isle of Arran with a slight dusting of snow this morning as I walked along Ayr Beach before dawn.
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Looking over to Isle of Arran, from a very cold Ayr Beach this morning.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A little bit of setting sun that was spot lighting some lovely colour on the leaves.
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Setting sun spotlighting some oak leaves, once again the phone saved the day and let me have a practice with it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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In my little woods, there is only one small area with more mature trees, that over the last few years, I have tried to get something.
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Just a small area to really work in, in my local woods, the rest is more chaotic , but it still gives me plenty to take a picture of and more importantly, just to be there.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Is it Flotsam or jetsam.
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The debris washed up on the beach the other morning and not often I use the phone to take a picture. Ayr Beach is where I walk so often, soo n will be back to my old favourite of Dunure.
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Lying on the back, looking up and just zoom in and out, see what you get.
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Lying on my back and shooting the branches and leaves, but trying focus pulling, to see what it creates.
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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With the leaves fast disappearing , time to look up and continue my little project.
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Back on my project of shooting branches, now that the leaves are disappearing, probably being mainly beech trees, all in black and white.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Went to Failford to see, what the Autumn colours were like , but with the River Ayr being so high, could not get near to any of my usual spots in the river.
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Some nice Autumn colours at Failford at the start of the River Ayr Gorge walk, my usual spots I like to stand in would probably be 4ft under water but nice way to spend a hour.
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I got to see the best of the colour lying on my back looking up. Looking around at eye level, not much showing. My old EF24-105 needs to be replaced, the barrel does more than creep now.
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Looking up into the tree canopy to get some Autumn colour. Learning i need to replace my old EF24-105 as the barrel more than creeps now, might see what a motion blur is like.
October 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Over 10yrs since, I took this one at Dunure , still remember it was one squall after another.
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A stormy day at Dunure, was over 10yrs ago and the memories are still as strong with one squall after another made for one great day.
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Another one from last Monday, this scene, I have always wanted to work, so I think getting it in fog is the last resort maybe.

Any thoughts or critique would be most welcome.
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I have tried to get a picture of these 3 beech trees, that i Iike, but there is always that but, shooting it in the fog, is my last resort maybe.
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Very unusual, for us to get any fog in the part of Ayrshire, where I live and was lucky for it to coincide with a day of work.
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Getting fog in my part of Ayrshire is very rare and to coincide with a day of work. The view has changed a lot with us losing some of the other large beech trees that were here, but these ones hang in.
October 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Two little fungi, I came across yesterday, This old tree stump, has gave me quite a few pictures over the last year.
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Two fungi, growing on an old tree sump, that just keeps giving pictures for me. Autumn is a wonderful time.
October 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A few weeks ago, I visited a new wood for me, quite a large area to explore.
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I visited this woodland the other week, it is mainly over an old pit site, where nature is taking it back.
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Water droplets on a spiders web in the garden yesterday. So many little things to see with in the picture.
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Water droplets on a spiders web, gave me a picture yesterday. looking closer there is a little red mite and one other little beastie in the picture, the wonder of discovering what you might miss, once you zoom in close.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Just as I was finished taking this, a woman picked it up and put it in her littler bag she was collecting on the beach. She then asked if, I was photographing it.
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An empty can of Irn Bru washed up on the beach, just finished taking the picture, when a lady picks it up and puts it in her litter bag, she beat me to it. So much blow up on the beach after the storm.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Was good to get back out and about. Was walking down to Ayr Beach when seen all these fungi growing and only had the wide angle lens with me.
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Low angle shot of some fungi growing in Wellington Gardens Ayr, was walking too Ayr beach, never seen as many here but lie the camera on the grass and just see, what you get.
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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my Friday was spent crawling around woodland floor looking for fungi.
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When finding some nice clean fungi, it is about getting a many little angles as you can, best one was lying on my back looking up.
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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My Fungi hunt ended up with me looking up and seeing this, so next while was such fun.
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I ended up lying on my back looking up with the macro lens and shooting ferns that were above me, some of the best fun, I have had in ages. Bokeh balls galore.
September 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Changing colours of an Acer in the garden.
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Focus on the changing colour of an Acer leaf in my garden.
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I do like a bit of colour.
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Bright colours of one of the wild flower mix , with the bonus of a Hoverfly on it. One of the best things, I have grown in the garden, it has given so much pleasure in the taking of pictures and just watching all the different things.
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Never knew how hairy the eye of a butterfly is, till I got this picture of a Red Admiral, more in the Alt
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I used a set of extension tubes on my RF100mm macro lens to give me around 2x magnification, to get the detail of the Red Admirals eye, first time I had ever noticed how the eye is covered in hairs.
September 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I like wandering among bedding displays.
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Belleisle Gardens Doonfoot. I like to walk among nice bedding displays. So much more to these gardens that I hope to document over the years now.
August 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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bee taking off from some flowers in the garden.
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Bee was taking off, from one of the flowers in the garden. Already planning to add more flowers to attract more and more pollinators
August 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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There is so many little scenes to discover on just this one old fallen tree.
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All the different little scenes on this old fallen tree, will keep me busy for a long time, the tree has been down for as long, as I can remember and it had been cut into 2 lengths that are over 10ft.. so plenty to explore, with the end result a little zine or something along those lines.
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Discovering new little beasties all the time in the garden.
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Macro photography is a world of discovery for me, since having my Stroke, it has helped me so much, I waited for a while for this one to come out from between the petals and eventually It came out, see it was something, I had never seen in the garden before is the bonus,. I would say a weevil type.
August 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM