Photo-Challenge on A Geek's Life

Liquid

Fri, 18 May 2018 19:11:16 +0000

Rovinj, Croatia. For the WordPress photo challenge prompt, Liquid

#7 - Sweet

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:30:53 +0000

A throwback of sorts to Lagos in 2015 and catching up with D at Hans & Rene. For the prompt, Sweet.

#6 - Tour Guide

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:32:04 +0000

A few places around town, for the WordPress photo challenge, Tour Guide

#5 - Beloved

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:30:48 +0000

St Alban’s Cathedral, December 2016…. For the Word Press photo prompt, Beloved, for which there can really only be one response.

#2 - Weathered

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:08:30 +0000

– Aberdeen’s City Centre is a panoply of old, weathered buildings, seasoned – as Yusef Komunyakaa so eloquently puts it in his poem, Ode To The Drum – by wind, dusk and sunlight. To that trio of elements, one would have to add snow and rain, given they are hardly ever in short supply in this corner of the world.

Before oil – and some would add, the EU – there was fishing and an entire industry of fish processing in and around the harbour area. These days, gleaming buildings - and car parks - share the skyline, a curious juxtaposition of old and new, brick and glass and perhaps the reinvention of a city.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Serene

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:37:29 +0000

The wee hours of the day and the first dusting of proper snow of the year here. For the Wordpress photo challenge, serene.

Wordpress Photo Challenge: Peek

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:48:39 +0000

The view that meets my eye on day 1 of 10 in Paphos, Cyprus. Truly looking forward to chilling and bonding with S, and catching my breath after what has been two weeks lived on the very edge of sanity (A Nigerian Wedding will do that to you).

--- For the Wordpress photo challenge, Peek.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Glow

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:57:12 +0000

More shimmer than glow but I suppose the view of the sea from the Beach Esplanade as I headed out to last Saturday’s Aberdeen Park Run counts. I am only five official runs in but it is very quickly becoming a key part of my Saturday mornings, when life allows me spend the weekend in the ‘Deen.

Next step the Baker Hughes 10k next year.

--- For the Wordpress Photo Challenge Prompt: Glow

Wordpress Photo Challenge: Scale

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:26:31 +0000

Morning light, Man, Monument, Mansion. For the prompt scale.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pedestrian

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 05:09:42 +0000

Lone walker in the distance, grey granite walls, a bit of wetness and a path I take on my way home everyday from work. Pedestrian, both in the sense of someone walking rather than driving or taking the bus and also the sense of something mundane, repeated and without excitement; Quotidian for what its worth.

– For the WordPress photo challenge, Pedestrian.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:32:00 +0000

Somewhat fortuitously - long story for another day - I have somehow found myself working bang in the city centre for most of the last six years, the chief joys of which include being able to stroll leisurely into work in twenty minutes tops, and this - views of the harbour through the window of the canteen on the third floor.

Between the middle ship and the green ship, if you look hard enough you’ll see the remains of seagull poop. For now at least, these two are constants, ships and seagulls.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Layered

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:01:24 +0000

One Friday this summer, S and I decided dolphin watching would be a good thing to do, which was how we hopped into the car, drove to the Aberdeen harbour and paid for a harbour cruise. The dolphins had other plans - 92% chance or not - and we ended up not seeing any. We did get the joy of about an hour of cruising round the harbour along with other equally disappointed would be dolphin watchers. Good bonding though, I guess?

Weekly Photo Challenge - Waiting

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 05:35:17 +0000

The downside - or some might say it is an upside - of having family on three continents is I spend quite a bit of time in airports waiting; to board, for baggage, to be picked up or sometimes to catch my breath after what can sometimes be a battle to get through immigration and customs, no thanks to the power of my passport.

The interplay between costs, stopover lengths and distance sometimes mean that only the very earliest of flights are workable for me, which is how I ended up at the airport at about 6.00am on this day. All in a day’s worth of waiting, I guess.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Structure

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:00:15 +0000

Aberdeen’s Mercat Cross, which dates back to the 1600’s. A different sort of structure from the lines, freckles, and tiny hairs which were ostensibly the subject of this week’s photo challenge but a structure nonetheless; in that other concrete, physical constructed sense of the word.

– For the weekly photo challenge, Structure

Windows to The Sea

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 05:32:52 +0000

Although I am only three runs into my ParkRun ‘career’, the three blocks of granite on the grassy edge of the Beach Esplanade just before it turns West towards Kings Street have become a beacon of sorts. Situated around the 4.5k mark of the total 5k route they have very quickly come to represent the prospect of rest, relief and completion.

They also mark the halfway point of my morning runs, which again speaks to turning points and the call of home. Finding out they were donated to the city by a company I once worked for added a sense of serendipity to all of that.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Transient

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:26:04 +0000

The view out to sea, mid way through my morning run. For the prompt, Transient.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Evanescent

Fri, 26 May 2017 17:47:14 +0000

For the Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge Prompt, Evanescent: ---

A curious combination of events - somehow in my early thirties becoming an insomniac and flexible start times at work - is how I manage to get the entire floor at work to myself for an hour on week days. Rather than stay awake in bed waiting for 8.00am, I figure it makes a lot more sense to use the morning hours up at work and free up my evenings.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Heritage

Thu, 18 May 2017 08:19:03 +0000

A few hundred years of Bini history on display a few thousand miles away in the National Museum of Scotland. #Heritage.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Danger

Wed, 03 May 2017 17:10:34 +0000

For the challenge, Danger. Rope Access inspections.. #Offshore

Weekly Photo Challenge - Wanderlust

Mon, 01 May 2017 17:07:22 +0000

For the Wordpress Photo Challenge, Wanderlust. St John’s, Newfoundland.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Dense

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:54:04 +0000

An exploded view of a Formula One Racing Car, a memento from the weekend’s frolicking at the Mercedes-Benz World in Brooklands. For the prompt, dense.

Green, a collection

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:01:43 +0000

For the challenge, Green.

Atop

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:07:11 +0000

Vienna, as seen from atop the Haus der Meeres, a repurposed Flak Tower. For the photo-challenge atop.

#NineFridaysOfSummer remembered.

Against The Odds, A Haiku

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:02:48 +0000

For the Photo Challenge, Against The Odds

– Sometimes, between a Rock and a hard place, beauty Springs. Against the odds.

Shadow

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:56:41 +0000

Shadows at the Tate, for the prompt Shadow