Loch Na Keal near Knock on the west coast of Mull. Not one of our better days weatherwise.....

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A flashback to the fabulous Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Voyage that we were privileged to enjoy to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary back in 2009.
Originally built in 1880, this lighthouse was manned by lightkeepers and their families until 1947. They had to row to the mainland to collect their supplies and had no phone - all messages were sent and received in Morse code. When playing outside the children were tethered to a pole on the rock & had to be brought in before high tide when the sea completely covers the base.
From 1947 to 1987, when it became fully automated, it was manned on a 'roster' basis. Electricity arrived in 1956!
It is now possible to visit & even stay overnight, hence the people on the jetty, I guess. And it is Norway's only octagonal lighthouse.
Seen amidst the bewildering array of islands and islets to the west of Trondheim around the mouth of the Bjugnfjorden. Think the flag may have seen better days!

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My "Macro Mondays" shot yesterday
(flic.kr/p/25VyJ9J) was uploaded within about 15 mins of being taken, this one has taken rather longer to make it, getting on for 43 years longer in fact!

It was taken in summer 1975 with my then brand-new Praktika LTL with a Pentacon 50mm f1.8 lens on Kodachrome 64 slide film. I found that projecting with a Boots projector (from the same era, couldn't afford the Kodak Carousel which was THE one to have!), and taking a shot with my Nikon (hence the EXIF data) gave better results that doing it via a slide scanner/PC.

The occasion was a church holiday under canvas from my St. Alban's days, which took place at Tal-y-bont (the one near Barmouth). This was one of the first shots taken with the camera and was hand-held from a "lying full length on the wet grass" position. I was staggered that it came out like this, and it remains one of my favourite shots to this day.

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Taken on day 2 as a friend and I cycled the Coast-to-Coast (Whitehaven to Tynemouth for us) back in 2004.
I still use the bike, which is currently set up on an old Turbo-trainer given to me by my bike-mad daughter and son-in-law when they cleared out their garage prior to moving house a few months back.

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April 2003. Not the greatest holiday ever for weather, this was one of our good days!
Taken in the days when film print companies were starting to offer 'digital prints' on a CD as well as prints on paper (remember BonusPrint, TruPrint, TriplePrint etc?!). Not much in the way of quality as the files were only 300-400Kb, though I perhaps should have said that I'd texturised it!

A return to my "Archive Tuesdays", no 44 in fact though not all are viewable since I'm not a 'Pro' which I guess makes me an 'Amateur'!

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