In response to the Weekly Photographic Challenge this week, the biggest ‘Treat‘ I can have, is to be outdoors, armed with my camera, on a pleasant and warm sunny day. Here are four photographs I took at the very beginning of October, whilst out on a walk from Kirkcaldy to West Wemyss.
The first photo was taken down at the back of the beach at Dysart, just to the west of Kirkcaldy. It is a photo of a hoverfly enjoying the late summer sunshine, on some Sea Aster (Aster Tripolium).
Hoverfly on Sea Aster – Dysart Beach
The second photo was taken from the edge of Ravenscraig Park, looking back towards Kirkcaldy
View from Ravenscraig Park to Kirkcaldy
The third photograph is taken from the top of the cliffs at the eastern end of Dysart, looking down on the small coastal village of West Wemyss (pronounced ‘weems’).
View from Dysart to West Wemyss
The final image was taken, as I walked back later on in the day, from almost the same spot as the above photo, but this time looking back at Dysart (and Kirkcaldy beyond), as the sun was just beginning to set.
Walking back to Dysart, as the sun begins to set
A perfect ‘treat’!!!
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Lovely to see the sea-asters still in flower and the hoverfly enjoyng them I really like the coastal photos, too, especially the last one, with the glimmering sunset,
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It was the last really summer-like day that we’ve had this year Millie, the following weekend felt like Autumn. It’s a walk I had only done a wee bit of previously, and I was very pleasantly surprised about the views 🙂
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It was certainly worth your while to walk out there! The views are stunning and your photography is excellent. I’ll be interested in seeing your winter landscapes up there. 🙂
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Thanks Millie 🙂
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This is a walk I know well. It’s lovely to see it in such bright light.
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Thanks Laura 🙂 As I just said to Millie, I hadn’t walked before from Dysart to West Wemyss, it was beautiful, as you clearly know 🙂
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I agree, it is the best treat to be outdoors with the camera on a nice sunny day.
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Thank you for your comment Laura 🙂
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Beautiful pictures and landscape.
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Thank you Sonya 🙂
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We have a Dysart in my state, but it looks nothing like this one!! No doubt it would be the kind of countryside an amateur geologist would find interesting. ( Both locations !!) Really lovely photos of the cliffs. I have never had a desire to travel to Scotland, but your photos do make me realize that there is beautiful landscape and seascapes to be seen. Great capture of light in the final photograph.
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Thanks Amanda 🙂 Scotland does have some amazing scenery, I shouldn’t say this, but it get’s even better up in the Highlands!
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My image of the highlands is windswept, desolate and cold. The cold is ok. I am not a fan of wind!!
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I guess that rules Scotland out then 🙂
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Perhaps! Is it windy all year round?
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Actually, Fife doesn’t particularly get that much wind, it’s mainly the north west of Scotland that gets the gales 🙂
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Okay, I will definitely keep away from that area. I actually have some friends in Falkirk that keep asking me to come and visit. Maybe one day, in the future I might take a detour there. But not for some years yet.
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It is a long way to come Amanda, the most I’ve done is about a 4 hour flight to Israel. I can’t say that I would particularly enjoy a flight lasting almost 24 hours!
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Usually 3 -4 flights in all
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Definitely not my idea of fun, but then again, to get to see Australia, I guess that would be worth it 🙂
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Just don’t be like a lot of tourists and expect you can see it all in just 2-3 weeks. It is a BIG country…..
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I know, we tend to be terrible in the UK for not realising how big other countries are. There are a lot of people over here that think Australia is just a bit bigger than the UK, they don’t realise that it’s a similar size to the whole of Europe 🙂
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Yes. They often say things like. Can we pop up to see the Barrier reef one day? ( It takes two full days if driving to get there)😕!!
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🙂
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Lovely photos. I particularly like the one of the aster with the hoverfly. I used to have some Michaelmas daisies in my garden in Aberdeen but they tried to take the whole place over, so I have left them out of my new, small, garden in Glasgow. There are lots of wild ones around, even in the city, to admire though.
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Thanks Christine 🙂 The Michaelmas daisies can spread quite rapidly, which can be a bit of a pest, even though they look very pretty.
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I couldn’t agree more with a lovely walk on a beautiful day in a wonderful place as the best treat of all – especially when there’s a camera involved! These are all lovely and take me right back to our recent Scotland visit! Thansk so much for sharing.
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Thank you for your comments Tina 🙂
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I love images such as the last one. I’m not familiar with your part of the world so it’s interesting to see. 🙂
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Thank you Jo 🙂 It was a beautiful late October day, ideal for catching the sun as it began to set over towards Edinburgh in the distance.
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