Scott Winning

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

An orange plastic buoy on a sandy beach with a stormy grey sky behind. Scanned from film negative, taken in Sept 1997.

Buoy on Harris beach
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Does it go up to eleven?🤘

A rider on an eventing horse approaching a jump on the cross country course at the London 2012 Olympic games. The horse is looking alert with its ears pricked up, spectators watch on under a lightly clouded blue sky. Olympus E-510 Olympus 40-150mm f/4-5.6 lens @f/4 40mm 1/1250s ISO100

Olympics 2012 London
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#photography #Olympus #equestrian #sport #Eastcoastkin

Two boys in a yellow sack racing in from of some spectators in a green trailer OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.40-150mm F2.8 @ƒ/2.8 150.0mm 1/800s ISO200

Sack Race
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#WeekGforGames #Aberdeenshire #OMSystem #Eastcoastkin

People on a bridge over a river framed by 3 arches rendered in yellow plaster. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/13.0 100.0mm 0.5s ISO200

Ponte Vecchio

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A paratrooper pensively waiting for take off, framed in the doorway of a C47. He was one of the paratroopers taking part in a commemorative parachute drop over Normandy as part of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Olympus E-M1MarkII LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3 @ƒ/7.1 400.0mm 1/500s ISO1250

Paratrooper
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#EastCoastKin #Olympus #Leica #Duxford
#photography #photographersofbluesky

A black and white picture of a swirling sea, cliffs behind, framed within the window of a derelict stone built cottage. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/11.0 70.0mm 0.5s ISO200

Stone Window Frame, Portsoy

#ClassicMono
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#WeekFForFramed #photography
#EastCoastKin #OMSystem #Scotland

A light blue, single seat racing car on a tarmac racetrack, red and white curbing in the foreground, grass in the background. Olympus E-M1MarkII LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3 @ƒ/5.6 100.0mm 1/250s ISO200

Brabham F2, the cars and racing team named after Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver.

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#BlueSkyArtShow #race #Formula2
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography
#EastCoastKin #Olympus #Leica #action

Fabric flowers, illuminated in orange and green, set within a graveyard with colourful light reflected off the gravestones. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/4.0 100.0mm 0.4s ISO200

A 2 second exposure showing the movement of a red circular light sculpture set within a black and white chequered floor with spectators around its periphery. Olympus E-M1MarkII OLYMPUS M.7-14mm F2.8 @ƒ/3.2 7.0mm 2s ISO250

Suspended paper lanterns glowing pink, set within a round room, light reflecting off of a marble floor. Olympus E-M1MarkII OLYMPUS M.7-14mm F2.8 @ƒ/3.2 7.0 mm 1/10s ISO1250

A black and white patterned inflatable sculpture depicting an owl, set against the stonework of Provost Skene's house, a 16th Century stone built townhouse. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/7.1 17.0mm 1/5s ISO200

Spectra Festival 2026, Aberdeen

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Great stuff, same here with the buddies 🐼

Three rusty tractors strapped down on a trailer. Olympus E-M1MarkII OLYMPUS M.40-150mm F2.8 @ƒ/2.8 570 mm 1/1600s ISO200

Rusty Fergies. Ferguson tractors, developed by Harry Ferguson, incorporating the revolutionary 3-point linkage for control of attached implements, still in use today.
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#BlueSkyArtShow #rust #tractor
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Olympus

It's been a real grind round these parts lately with the persistent grey and rain showers. ☔

Take time for yourself.

Thanks Sheena. This was taken in May 2024 when we had a spectacular show that went of for a couple of hours, this was looking to the south of my location.

Photo of an active aurora showing purple, pink and green hues over a stone wall and lone tree. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.7-14mm F2.8 @ƒ/2.8 7.0mm 8s ISO1000

Aurora
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Black and white photo showing a large rain cloud over the coast reflected in the wet sand in the foreground. OM Digital Solutions OM-1 OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/4.5 12.0mm 1/1250s ISO200

Over the beach
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#photography #sky #OMSystem

Great light on this image.

Loch Carron and Creag an Duilisg, Plockton #Scotland #Highlands #Plockton www.damianshields.com

Black and white photo of storm clouds approaching a rocky shore with a wooden clapboard house in the right of the frame. Olympus E-M1MarkII OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/5.6 12.0mm 1/800s ISO 200

Incoming
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Thanks for the re-post @sdcushing.bsky.social 👍

A snow-covered field with a fence in the foreground, snow covered trees in the background. Olympus E-M1MarkII OLYMPUS M.12-100mm F4.0 @ƒ/6.3 47.0mm 1/500s ISO200

Snowy fence taken during recent heavy snowfall

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#photography #snow #winter #chilly #Eastcoastkin #Scotland #Aberdeenshire #scape #photography #Scotlandinphoto #photographersofbluesky

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Thank you 🙏

That wallpaper is giving me flashbacks 😂

Black and white picture of the curled edge of a mushroom showing the end of its gills. Olympus OMD-EM1 MK2, Olympus.M 60mm macro lens @f/3.5 1/100s ISO500

Curled
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#WeelCforCloseup #Olympus #macrophotography #Eastcoastkin #monochrome #nature #blackandwhite #fungus

Photo of water drops suspended on threads of spider silk shown against a bright green background. Olympus E-M1 OLYMPUS 50mm Lens @ƒ/3.2 50.0 mm 1/320s ISO200

Jewels
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