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!!!
Part 3 of the photo story about a back alley urban portraits with Kevin for my Urban Portraits Dumfries project.
This year I had a pleasure of experiencing a picturesque Quid Nychburris ( Good Neighbours) Festival for the first time. It’s the main pageant of the year celebrating Dumfries’ status of a Royal Burgh granted to its community by King Robert III in 1186. Quid Nychburris bristles with distinctive traditional…
Paying a bit of video homage to the graceful stonecarvings of Crichton Memorial Church and my New Year resolution for 2019
A photo review of the inaugural Dumfries Farmers’ Market selling local Dumfries and Galloway food, drink and crafts in the Victorian Pavilion at the railway station
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…
Don’t believe the weather lore! ‘Red sky at night; shepherds delight, Red sky in the morning; shepherds warning.’ I saw a lovely warm light descending on Kingholm Quay on Wednesday afternoon and hurried down the road with my camera to capture the banks of the River Nith and the harbour…