Category: Travel

  • Isle of Arran Sunset — Silent Sunday Jun 23

    Isle of Arran Sunset — Silent Sunday Jun 23

    Sunset over Arran
    Sunset over Arran

    I did a number of AI transformations for this beautiful sunset over the Isle of Arran in the Clyde Estuary.

    Watercolour

    Futurism

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  • Fan Of… Historic Scotland: Inside J.A. Braithwaite LTD Tea & Coffee Shop

    Fan Of… Historic Scotland: Inside J.A. Braithwaite LTD Tea & Coffee Shop

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

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    My third post in my Historic Scotland series features J.A. Braithwaite LTD Tea & Coffee Shop.

    We had to visit this fantastic old shop, given that we have a surname in common

    How is this shop historic, you ask; it is the oldest shop in Dundee (info from The Scots Magazine).

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  • Inspired By Hammad’s Transcendent Poetry  — Water Water Everywhere #224

    Inspired By Hammad’s Transcendent Poetry — Water Water Everywhere #224

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    This WWE was inspired by Hammad’s poem in his WWE post: Tranquil Sigh.

    His poem inspired me to try & visualise the scene he set using my own pictures & AI prompt engineering in DALL-E (ChatGPT). These are my baseline pictures.

    I then generated this image by combining these images, Hammad’s brilliant poem, and my own prompts.

    Whispering secrets to the sand
    Whispering secrets to the sand

    I say eventually because there were many prompt rewrites to get the image to match what I saw in Hammad’s words. In the carousel below are a few of the images that, whilst good, do not quite fit what was conjured in my own mind.

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    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Dundee Dragon — Monday Portrait Jun  10

    Dundee Dragon — Monday Portrait Jun 10

    This is a fun challenge that no one hosts, so if you want to participate, just post a photo.

  • Exploring Tenements in Glasgow: Miss Toward’s Time Capsule — Fan Of…

    Exploring Tenements in Glasgow: Miss Toward’s Time Capsule — Fan Of…

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    These pictures were all taken with my iPhone SE, so this is my post for John’s Cellpic Sunday.

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    My second post in my Historic Scotland series features The Tenement House. This National Trust for Scotland (NTS) time capsule of the turn of the 20th Century can be found on Buccleuch Street in Glasgow, just north of Sauchiehall Street.

    Buccleuch Steet Tenements
    Buccleuch Steet Tenements

    Susan vividly remembers staying at her Uncle Billy & Aunt Teresa’s Tenement in Linthouse, Glasgow, as a child. Her grandpa also lived in a tenement Penilee, again in Glasgow.

    The particular tenement we are visiting is of Miss Toward.

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  • Fog Rolling In for Water Water Everywhere #223

    Fog Rolling In for Water Water Everywhere #223

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    These shots, taken 30 minutes apart, show fog rolling up the River Tay.

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    Hae a guid week 😁

  • No Mow May Is No More

    No Mow May Is No More

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Mown lawn
    Mown lawn

    We participated in No Mow May, an annual event run by Plantlife. Basically, you don’t mow your lawn in May to allow flowers & weeds to grow, providing plenty of food for pollinators. This also worked for us as we were away at various times during the month.

    In the gallery below, the first is a before shot.

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  • Spiers Wharf for Water Water Everywhere #222

    Spiers Wharf for Water Water Everywhere #222

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    We’re starting off June with this shot of Spiers Wharf on the Forth & Clyde Canal. This section of the canal is on the northern side of Glasgow.

    Spiers Wharf
    Spiers Wharf

    I also used ChatGPT to do an oil painting-style re-imagining of the wharf area.

    AI oil painting style re-imagining of Spiers Wharf
    AI oil painting style re-imagining of Spiers Wharf

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    Hae a guid week 😁