Photos by Jez

Author: Photos by Jez

  • Daily flower– Bouquet

  • Pacific Park — Cees Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant

    Pacific Park — Cees Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant

    Hi All 👋 My entry for CFFC: Vibrant. I have gone with Pacific Park, on Santa Monica Pier!

  • Eeshogel — Things in Scots #14 and A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby

    Eeshogel — Things in Scots #14 and A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby

    Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    A 2fer today; Eeshogel (icicle) is today’s Things in Scots as well as my entry for Nancy Merrill’s Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby. Other words for icicle are ice-tangle, shockle, and bobantilter in Caithness.

    All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.

    As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes?

    If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!

    Hae a guid day

  • City Reflections #3 — LPM Photo Adventure

    Hi All 👋 My 3rd entry for LPM’s Photo Adventure Challenge: Reflections.

    City Reflections by Jez Braithwaite
    City Reflections
  • Homage to Shipbuilding — Sculpture Saturday Dec 14

    Homage to Shipbuilding — Sculpture Saturday Dec 14

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.

    This sculpture, designed by Jimmy Cosgrove, and constructed by Hector McGarva, was installed outside The House for an Art Lover in Oct 2005. It is made from cast iron and corten steel, and shows the silhouette of a shipyard worker and his dog; on the adjacent table lie the tools of his trade. The inscription on the sculpture reads “celebrate those who made the Clyde great”.

    Homage to Shipbuilding bt Jez Braithwaite
    Homage to Shipbuilding

  • Pink Quill — Flower of the Day Dec 14

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Cee’s FOTD.

    Pink Quill by Jez Braithwaite
    Pink Quill
    Pink Quill in silvertone by Jez Braithwaite
    Pink Quill in silvertone

  • Daily flower— Bouquet

  • Bink — Things in Scots #13

    Bink — Things in Scots #13

    Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see and hear her post), and we’ll be posting mostly daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).

    Bink (bench) is today’s Things in Scots. Also known as a binch, furm or firm. A bench made of turf is a sunk, a smalll bench is a sunkie and a long wooden bench with a chest below is a lang-settle.

    All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.

    As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes

    If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!

    Hae a guid day

  • Daily flower– Dahlia bouquet