Photographs of Dumfries

Locations:
Edinburgh (55.951897, -3.197494 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])
Huntingdon House Hotel, Dumfries^[info] (55.07177, -3.601263 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])
River Nith, Dumfries, Scotland (55.067409, -3.613901 [Google Maps] [maps.live.com] [multimap])

Tags: Birds, Black-headed Gull, Boats and Ships, Bridge, Britain, Buildings and Architecture, Carvings and Stonework, Cormorant, Cormorants and Shags, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Europe, Fountain, Gulls, Landscapes, Mute Swan, Rivers and Streams, Scotland, Statues and Sculpture, Swan, Trees, Wildlife and Nature, Young Birds

Dates: started Wednesday, 29th October 2003, latest additions Thursday, 30th October 2003

Wanting to try out my new camera properly, I volunteered to travel from the south coast of England up to Dumfries in Scotland - a round trip of around 16 hours - just to install one computer. So, the plan was two days of travelling, an hour or so of installing, and the best part of a day photographing. However, as the server ended up taking from 10am to about 4:30pm due to network problems, the following were taken during an extended lunch break while I was trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong...

As the new camera has not only a 10x optical zoom (the same as a good pair of binoculars, and better than my 8x25 binoculars I carry in my backpack) but also lots of new settings for taking landscapes, portraits, action shots, night shots etc., it might look like there are a number of near-duplicate pictures as I play around with the settings. There are also a lot of photographs of birds on a river...