Kindrogan and Christmas

A few days out of the city. Normally this would turn out to be a time to recharge batteries and catch up on reading. This trip turned out to be a coffee fuelled marathon of data collection, processing and presenting. A "fun" coffee fuelled marathon of data collection processing and presenting.

Time has marched on in my education and the first block of classes went past faster than I could possibly imagine. The distant memory of being told that we would be going away for a long weekend 'at the end of October' suddenly appeared. As I start the second set of classes I would like to think that I have a better handle on time management and organisation but I think I may be kidding myself on.

The excitement of Object Orientated Programming, Distrubuted GIS and Remote Sensing is driving me for the next five weeks into the exams and the potential of a Christmas Break.  I think this is the earliest I have ever thought of Christmas.

The trip to Kindrogan was for project management. It was to see how we would cope under a certain amount of pressure which would be directly linked to how organised we were before the trip and how our strategies held up under real life situations.

I didn't get to take as many photographs as I would have liked when I was away, but that wasn't really the point of the trip. I did get a few candid and posed photographs though. I am open to captions for some of these :-)

 

Castles, Coffee and Citylife

Two weeks of living in Edinburgh and a grand total of one photograph that I have taken that I am pleased with, taken with my iPhone, when I was slightly drunk (more about that later).  I keep reminding myself that I have at least an entire year here to take photographs and " DON'T PANIC ". I am also told by my tutors that the year will fly past at lightning speed. Who said anything about panicking?

The city is impressive, there is no denying it. It is busy, so very busy, with tourists, students, politicians, business people and of course those cheeky lads from Trainspotting. My coffee consumption has increased at an almost alarming rate. Can you believe that coffee isn't one of the major food groups? Starbucks' seem to appear at an exponential rate and there are amazing coffee shops at every corner in this city. My local favourite (to where I study) being Black Medicine Coffee Co., their website is out of 1996 but I'm putting that down to how busy they are.

Heriot Place, Edinburgh

 

It's been an interesting (side?) step, entering the M.Sc., the real course choices start next week and I am constantly questioning myself as to whether I am good enough or have I prepared enough and I think nervous energy is powering me through this initial introduction week. I also forgot how nice it is to meet lots of new people who are in a similar position. I do catch myself looking at them to see if they have similar nerves or doubts about themselves; or is it just me?

 I am off to a treasure hunt this afternoon, with drinks afterwords. I should probably go and prepare with some coffee. :-)

 

Lightroom brain flex

I have started to edit my good friend Geraldine's Instagram photographs using Lightroom. She is a yogi from the Island of Bohol in the Philippines. I would much rather be taking the photographs as well as editing them but it's too much of a commute for a daily photograph! But it does allow me some daily flexing of my brain using Lightroom to touch up and edit her photographs.

You can check out Geraldine's excellent gallery of Yoga positions on her Instagram feed.

 

Thanks for reading! :-)

One shot

There are some days when I take hundreds of photographs and I am unhappy with all of them.  It is the curse of digital photography, there is no film, no cost and to a certain extent no real repercussions of shooting hundreds of photographs. However, when I find a photograph that I have shot that i am really "happy" with it makes it worthwhile.

One shot from the harbour


Thanks for reading.