who knows how curlew measures the arc-line of time? in ebb tides & edges? *** A solitary curlew with raised, curved beak, walks across...

heron takes a trip — stalking a setting sun spilling silver and gold *** A heron moving purposefully along the shoreline, silhouetted...

pipe dream of the contemplative corvid awaiting snow *** Crow sitting on a sea wall, looking out over the River Forth. West Lothian is...

early morning silvered architecture, at the level of the tied shoelace *** Small spider web constructed amongst green shubbery, covered...

to find a landing spot *** A bee sits on the centre of a perennial sowthistle amongst a field of ripening barley. A line of trees hedge...

light sculpture a settled surface *** Shadow of mature trees falling on the surface of a pond covered in green chickweed. A tree stump...

moving slowly with purpose: embracing heron time *** A lone heron stalking the foreshore of the River Forth at low tide. Standing still...

not all language is translatable *** Two corvids perched on the top spars of a ladder facing each other. The ladder has two orange floats...

night drift archipelago bats almost — seen sensed, felt *** Cloud formation in late night sky. np: Peter Garland / Aki Takahashi — ...

against thin drifting smirr a stilled curve — disrupts lines of river, coastline & sky pausing time a poised angle of intention still ...

two objects moving the line through the gathered bob two small sounds surfacing *** A mallard duck swims across the still water of...

a meeting of the gaze who is watching who? *** A line of feral pigeons perched on the high edge of the old limekilns at Charlestown...

— silent cut through of mottled grey *** A small bird of prey (sparrowhawk?) — outstretched v-shaped wings, cutting through a mottled...

two energy lines across, over, beyond a silent hover stills — all paused *** Looking up to a mottled blue sky. Two utility lines cross in...

Rookery in the high branches of Scots pine trees adjoining the grounds of Aberdour Castle, Fife. A constant chorus of arrivals and...

two oystercatchers facing east one curlew facing west inclined to gather at the harbour's edge *** Two oystercatchers and one curlew...

Dolmen style megalith constructed at the entrance to Goathill Quarry, Fife, with a fibreglass goat standing on top. The sun is sitting,...

over the drowned world, curlew calls sound stitching the greys ~~~ Looking out over the River Forth. Mistle cloaked greys merging sea,...

sound before sight arriving ~~~ Skein of geese breaking overhead, at Lochore Meadows, before making landfall. np: Arve Henriksen —...

Holding the weight of light. Spun spider web over green hawthorn. A canopy of gossamer, lit by sunlight. ~~~ np: Anna Thorvaldsdottir —...