POTD: Tobermory Cat

POTD: Tobermory CatTobermory Cat
Tobermory, Scotland
2015

I took this quick shot because I thought it was kind of funny that a cat would choose to snooze atop a car right on the main drag in Tobermory–not that it’s a particularly busy street, but it does get more traffic than any other. As it turned out, we saw it almost daily the whole week we were there. It’s also somewhat of a local celebrity and popular among tourists. The shops along the street all have postcards featuring the cat and the bookstore even had a photo book with a pretty decent collection of images of it in various poses around town.

Someone told us the cat actually belonged to the distillery down at the end of the street. I imagine it has a name other than the Tobermory cat,  but we never heard what it was.

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POTD: Down Time

POTD: Down TimeDown Time
Tobermory, Scotland
2015

It seems like we’ve been constantly on the go, either in the car or on foot, this whole trip. But this image from our first week here reminds me that in fact we have found some time to just take it easy.

 

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POTD: Fountains Abbey

POTD: Fountains AbbeyFountains Abbey
Aldfield, England
2015

To a very close approximation, this is the same scene I photographed when we first visited Fountains Abbey some 12-15 years ago, so it’s not really a new image for me. Even though I like it a lot, you might wonder why I would go to all the trouble to try and recreate a photo I’ve already taken. Well, 12-15 years ago was eons in digital camera years so the technical quality of the photos I took then don’t match what I can produce now. Because of the quality issue, I can’t enlarge that earlier photo much bigger than 8″x12″ before the detail suffers too much. Yet, I like it enough to want to print a bigger version. Now I can.

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