{"id":2283,"date":"2023-09-09T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2024-01-28T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:24:58","slug":"photo-galavanting-ayr-and-dunure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2023\/09\/09\/photo-galavanting-ayr-and-dunure\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Galavanting – Ayr and Dunure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For about the last. year or so I have been, from time to time, heading out on wee Photography day safaris with my friend Becky. She and I met about a year ago and became fast friends, bonding over Photography, Star Trek and a number of other fandoms. It’s been lovely to make a new friend, at a time in life when new friends are so often an elusive possibility, and to have an accomplice with whom I know I we are both free is likely to be up for heading somewhere new or familiar, camera in hand, to explore, be outdoors and generally goof around whilst also giving new approaches and new subjects a try.

Last Sunday we went to Ayr beach, each of us just with one camera, one prime, to see what the day would bring and have fun with photography, and I got some really great photos that I am proud of, and so did she. That and we got to walk on the beach, which is always great, but was especially nice due to the fabulous Indian Summer we are having at the moment. We went on to explore Dunure, a small and delightfully quaint fishing village with a ruined castle, lovely and well preserved harbour, just a quarter of an hour or so down the old coast road to the south of Ayr.

I should mention, while I have your attention Dear Reader, that Becky is a fantastic photographer and artist – she was short listed for the Aesthetica Prize this year. You can find out more about her and her work here – Becky Probert Photography<\/a> – I am very pleased that she chose to feature a portrait that I took on that page.

Anyhow, here’s some photos from the day in question…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ayr is a town of many towers…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Metaphotography is a fun fixation of mine – here’s Becky photographing a stranded Jellyfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Metaphotography is a fun fixation of mine – here’s Becky photographing a stranded Jellyfish again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oh the blue! There were so many stranded Jellyfish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glistening kelp in the sunlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Footprint in the sand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The incredible late summer sky over Ayr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Octopus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This slightly dilapidated hall just kinda spoke to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More meta photography!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunure Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A quiet back street in Dunure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nautical ephemera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another fine Octopus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And another Octopus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Harbour wall Ruckenfigur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lobster Pots; Arran in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Catch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For about the last. year or so I have been, from time to time, heading out on wee Photography day safaris with my friend Becky. She and I met about a year ago and became fast friends, bonding over Photography, Star Trek and a number of other fandoms. It’s been lovely to make a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[261,260,73,4],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accomplice","tag-days-out","tag-photo","tag-photography","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-AP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}