"There can be only one."

Taken on a trip this week to the Highlands of Scoltand, we where fortunate to just to catch the last golden rays of light on the one and only Eilean Donan Castle on the shores of Loch Duich. The castle was used in the filming of the classic 1986 film Highlander film . The movies catch phrase was "There can be only one " a reference to the fact that in the end only one Immortal may survive The Game and gain The Prize.

A trip to Mull

 Duart Castle

Room with a view of the ferry coming into Craignure

 Sailing boats at Salen

The famous wrecks at Salen

Julie's Buggy goes to Bempton

We have really become bird photographers this year with another trip to RSPB Bempton Cliffs yesterday to see the Gannets. These fabulous seabirds seemed to be taking as much interested in us as we watched them fly overhead.

An amazing interior

From the modern day staircase in Liverpool Central Library.

To the ceiling detail in the Picton Reading Room 

( processed with graduate 1 filter in Nik HDR Effects - not sure about the filter.).

Iron Men at Crosby

A trip to Crosby to photograph the Iron Men A.K.A Another Place by Anthony Gormley. It is very difficult to get a different angle on these photogenic statues but on a sunny summer day with the tide out this is the best I could come up with using silver effex pro  2 - preset 24 Full contrast and structure. then one press of the button and it's done !

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit taken at RSPB Marshside.

Fountains Abbey

Britain's largest monastic ruin and most complete Cistercian abbey is a World Heritage site. Fountains Abbey was the second of the Yorkshire houses to be founded. In spite of its rather inauspicious beginnings, Fountains became the largest and richest of the Northern abbeys and headed an extensive family that extended to the shores of Norway. Fountains stemmed from the Benedictine house of St Mary’s, York, where a group of reform-minded monks fled from their abbey to pursue a harsher and more disciplined way of monastic life.