After the spectacular lights switch on extravaganza I happened to be in the town centre during the ‘blue’ hour for some last minute grocery shopping. The shopping (and my poor John) had to wait as these Christmas light displays simply had to be captured! When my mum saw these pictures she said that it was so obvious to her that Doonhamers were very proud of their town…
Happy holidays, everyone!!!
A photo story about a didgeridoo busker and reconnecting to the voice of the world for My Dumfries Diaries urban and street photography project
WE HAVE MOVED – from Birmingham to Dumfries in Scotland! John, my husband, has accepted a research post offer from the University of Glasgow, with the synthetic biology project based at the University’s research park in Dumfries. Like an army spouse, I have to relocate too! I feel overwhelmed and…
My first photographs taken at Kingholm Quay in Dumfries, about 500 yards from our house, will give you an idea where we live now. It was only several days after River Nith flooded the bottom of the road, so the wonderful expanse of marshland grass where the locals walked their…
Being Russian, I couldn’t help noticing the rising tensions around migrants and migration as the Brexit vote was approaching. The worrying tendency was to downplay and reject the value of the migrants’ contribution to British economy and cultural life. To oppose this covert racism, a nation-wide campaign #1daywithoutus was created…
My congratulations to Lincluden community, whose beautiful heritage of Lincluden Collegiate Church has been voted one of six Hidden Gems of Scotland! It was a result of two months of online Facebook voting organised by Dig It! 2017 that worked with partners across Scotland to unearth special places that are…
After the burst of primary colours of the Christmas holiday palette the quiet dignity of pastel hues of the thick fog descending over Kingholm Quay was refreshing. I was looking for clean simplicity for my images. I found it in the repetitive vertical shafts of dried heathers standing proud along the riverbank, in…