The weather worsens

Well it’s the first day of the Easter holidays and I have nothing to do other than sit at home, due to this dreadful weather we in the north east are being hit with. So I thought I venture out and take a few pictures.

This picture was taken during blizzards, and you can see the top of the road.

When the weather changed again you could.

Demonstrates the power of snow and what it can do when drifting. Where’s the farmer when you need him

Farmers life

Well the weekend has gone fine, worked the nightshift, now at home doing some work on the computer. Not a lot of college work yet, the work load for block two is easier.

Farm work in demanding, I notice this when the farmer drives by each day.

Tracks mark their journey time

The farmer’s hard work pays off.

Photoshop CS3 Practice

The software I was waiting for arrived yesterday, good shipping time to be honest. So now it was time to get a little practice using the skills I have learnt so far at college. And maybe a little browse, my first visit was Photoshop CS3. So while I was browsing I decided to edit a picture I had posted before.

As I am new to Photoshop CS3 I was going to keep it easy, so I decided to extend the trees in the background using the clone tool.

Unedited photo

Edited photo with the extended trees using the clone tool

When will it be summer?

The weather hasn’t been great all day to be honest, dull skies, wet and windy. Then coming to think of it today isn’t as windy as Tuesday.

This picture goes to show how the weather reflects this time of year.


Other than the usual weather, I came across this unusual looking thing while in an Aberdeen bar before Amy’s concert on Monday.

Overcast

The weather today has been wet and miserable, didn’t stop me taking these pictures though.

Slightly overcast too.

Could get hail like we did earlier.


Sheep in the distance.

Pond full of water

Liked the light effect over the trees.

A new season nears

Has been a cracking day considering it is February.

So this picture reminded me how the season and activities of the farmers are changing .





Not bad for a mobile picture.

Countryside

A quite walk through the countryside

College and landscape

End of the weekend and back to college the morning, Last college week of 2007!! My first task will be to write up my practical tasks in computer hardware. Then move onto spreadsheets and complete the two parts assessment, the assessment is combined with the databases. So will involve things like IF function, embedded IF function, absolute cell reference and database stuff. Databases have come very easy now, so shouldn’t have any bother with the assessment. The remainder of the day involves assessments too, first of the afternoon will be the Internet and general pc stuff like email and peripherals of computing. Last is the communications listening assessment.

Other than college I have a few more photos.

Photo of Aberdeen taken from the 6th floor of college.

On the odd Sunday morning you here the tractors or cattle from the farm.

Countryside is so peaceful and relaxing.

Fast flowing river

Last week I wanted to post a couple of photos of the river Deveron, but as it was late afternoon they were too dark. So I went back this afternoon and took these two below.

The river flows towards the bridge at speed.

The river flows under the bridge.

The calm sunset

A photo of sunset in the distance.

The sun starts to creep through to reveal the light of day.

Old buildings

With the weather getting colder and the light getting shorter I managed to get take these to pictures when taking a drive. My plan at first was to take a look about for old derelict buildings, this is when I came across this building with a strange looking tree in front of it. Have a look and see what you think.

North east of Scotland water stream

Have been completing the Oliver Cromwell task, so I decided to take a break and go for a walk with the dog. Thought it would be a good idea to take my camera with me, hearing the sound of water I investigated to come across this small stream of water. So I have taken a couple of photos to show you what I was looking at.


The photo below was taken from the top, where the water started to travel downwards into the trees.

These two photos below were taken at close range, so you can see the water colliding as it travels over the rocks and down the stream.

Huntly Castle

Here stands Huntly castle, built where the Rivers Deveron and Bogie meet. Built in the late 12th century by Duncan, earl of Fife.

The first structure was wooden and built on a mound, in 1314 the castle changed hand and it was given to Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly. The handover was a forfeit due to breach of loyalties to the crown, it wasn’t until the early 15th century when the first stone tower was built. This was to replace the wooden structure burnt in 1452 by the Black Douglas family, while this was being repaired they constructed a palace on the south side.

By the 16th century, the 4th earl of Huntly, George Gordon, became one of the wealthiest men in the north east of Scotland.

Marie of Guise visited the castle in 1556. Marie of Guise was so impressed by the work on the castle, she felt he needed tamed to prevent threat. Later in 1562 at the battle of Corrichie, he lost the battle to Mary Queen of Scots. His castle was looted and further damage inflicted in 1594 when James VI blew up the old tower house

In 1597 earl the 6th was rewarded the title of Marques of Huntly, his aim was to rebuild the castle to make it fit for living.

Web development assessment and country pictures

Have been doing my web development assessment most of the night, so far I have managed to create the table with a heading and sub headings, have assigned the heading and sub headings with my preferred colours, fonts and font sizes.

Will keep you updated on my progress.

Other than my wed development assessment, I thought I would post a couple more pictures. Nothing more relaxing than the Scottish countryside.

Bright blue skies

The local farm in the distance

Another month without snow

Four days into November, and to my absolute amazement we still haven’t seen the snow in the north east of Scotland. Not that I’m missing it in this case. Generally when we see the snow up here, everything grinds to a holt. In very serious cases they have to close the local roads to traffic, because they are either impassable or just to dangerous.

When the photo above was taken it began to make me think of the importance of having a 4x4 vehicle, not the best terrain for family cars. Then saying that if you had a set of skies you would have great fun.

Well you can’t see much ahead, this photo was taken when the drifts had formed across the road, meaning there wasn’t even a way ahead for the 4x4. Trying to walk to the top of the road was a task in itself, cold and wet, all I wanted to do was sit in front of the open fire and watch telly.

Old farm tools

When I was out taking pictures last week with the digital camera, I came across this old looking piece of farm equipment, my first thought was?, it’s a plough and was pulled by cattle or horses years ago.

It’s very interesting to see things of the past still going about, these days you expect it just to rout, but the owner of this seems to of kept it well looked after and maintained.

Wind Turbines

Was out and about with the digital camera and came across the opportunity to take some photos of the wind turbines. Looking at the height and size of them, you aren’t going to be getting one of these in your back garden.

Huge, Enormous, Gigantic!!

So how much power does one of these generate.

How many homes do they supply electricity too.