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Holly and Stephen’s Wedding

PK-kelman — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:53 +0000

PK did the photography for the lovely Holly and her new husband at their wedding last month. Although the day was a bit grey and the light at Strathallan castle in the wrong place, we managed to get some good photos. This was helped by the couple being very photogenic and chilled out, a pleasure to shoot. So here’s a selection of the photos we took regardless of wedged cars, bus drivers needing to get back for the school run and the occasional rain shower!

See the full gallery here (password required – Holly’s maiden name)

The happy couple outside the reception venue

The exchange of rings

Parents of the bride

Scottish Dancing

See the full gallery here (password required – Holly’s maiden name)

Beautiful Perth keeping Perth Beautiful

PK-kelman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:06:41 +0000

The Weather has been pretty horrid and I’ve not really been able to go out much with the camera due to snow, sleet, hail and rain with only the very occasional spells of sunshine. However the lovely Beautiful Perth people were going to do a scheduled litter pick regardless and had asked me to come and take a few photos for them to show the work they do. I meet them at the Bridgend car park and followed them through the rain as they worked hard and kept smiling. It was quite surprising how much litter there was, including needles and a rather old Marathon bar wrapper (remember them, they turned into Snickers 15 or 20 years ago!). It really is quite disgusting that people can have so little consideration and respect for everyone else. Is it really that hard to use a bin or take your litter home?? Well here’s the photos to show what some very nice people will do in order to clean up after the inconsiderate people in this world. I will also like to point out that all these people are volunteers and do not get paid a penny for looking after this city.

The Beautiful Perth team and the litter they collected in roughly 50 mins

Hard at Work

Scanning her Domain

Even the bushes were cleaned up

TV Filming at Plant Nursery

PK-kelman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:26:11 +0000

The nice people at Beautiful Perth asked us to take photos at a filming for a TV gardening programme (which at the moment we are not allowed to name) at a local plant nursery. It was a lovely sunny, warm day and we were let into, then locked in the poly-tunnels while a school class were filmed planting seeds. This was all in relation to Queens jubilee (like I care!) and that Perth has been given city status (not that I understand what difference that makes!). Anyhow the film crew basically was made up of a man with a Camera and his assistant that hovered around in the background.

Filming in the poly-tunnel

Watching the camera instead of the Teacher!

The youth grow team, who do some of the plant arrangements around Perth (including the glass butterfly at the library), were also there and involved in the filming. I managed to catch up with them before they were in front of the TV camera, when they were planting sends and tending to the young trees. As I had to go to work I didn’t have the opportunity to capture them when they were being filmed. We did then have to escape the compound, as they hadn’t unlocked the gate for us, we had to sneak through the gap. Strangely the focus was all on the kids and filming and we were forgotten!!! SIGH! Hard life being just a photographer.

Youth grow preparing for the spring

Planting seeds

Perth Museum Unleashes Dinosaurs – how careless!

PK-Potter — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:50:16 +0000

I dragged my ~~brats~~ kids along to Perth Museum and Art Gallery today in order to have a deek at the Dinosaurs Unleashed exhibition that is currently running.

It’s actually very good and with the kids being off school for two weeks, I’d recommend a wee visit. Their favourite part of the exhibition seemed to be painting the dinosaur using the touch-screen monitor which then projects onto a model dino-head.

Once you are finished there, pop over to the George Street Newsagent for some fantastic home made caramel shortbread!

Beautiful Perth

PK-kelman — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:39:59 +0000

Was asked by Beautiful Perth people to get some photos of the Artwork on Tay street. So I headed out the other day into a lovely sunny day for a wee wander down Tay street and see what I could get. I but hadn’t thought it through! The Tay flows North to South through Perth so in order to shoot the art on the riverside I had to face North or South, leaving me shooting into the Sun or having my own shadow in the shot and over art. Obviously couldn’t stand in the river or on the road and in order to get a good light on the sculptures needed to get the in position so was facing the lit side instead of the shadowed one! So was rather difficult to get a good position for a shot, especially with people walking by and cars, trucks and buses getting in the shots.

I kept the aperture pretty wide, F5ish so the background street was not in focus so the traffic didn’t deter from the shot too much. As the shots were for a Perth website I also wanted to show the Artwork in situ, showing the river or the street where possible so people would see where to go to look at them. Turned out with some great shots though and hopefully some will appear on their site soon, when they can figure out how to upload from my flickr site, like I do !!!!!

Part of sculpture on flood defence wall

Wall sculpture and Tay street out of focus in background

The flood defence wall has art carved into it too.

Sconie Quest- Reid’s cafe, gluten free menu

PK-kelman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:08:26 +0000

Found myself at a loose end the other day so me and MS decided to go for some lunch. Been simply dying for some bread so I suggested we go to Reid’s cafe at the bottom of the high street, as I knew it did a gluten free menu.

I know it still had yeast in it, but you only live once. They use gluten free bread so a selection of sandwiches were available, though only 2 were also vegetarian and one of those was egg (which I’m also quite intolerant to) so didn’t have too much choice, but in all fairness I am a very picky eater these days. So I had the houmous and roasted veg one. The bread was pretty good for gluten free bread (which is always not as tasty as real bread and often pretty awful, they make it from wheat for a reason) and the filling was fabulous, the houmous some of the nicest I’ve tasted. MS had a proper wheat panini with some kind of spicy meat filling which she said was lovely. Though we didn’t have a cake, they did have a selection of gluten free cakes available.

As with most places in Perth (the coffee shop capital of Scotland) the service was very good, polite, friendly and quick. The place was pretty busy, obviously one of the more popular places in town, making it a bit noisey, but not so much so you couldn’t hear each other. As it was cold outside with a really biting wind I didn’t stop for a photo, but I have nicked one of Ian’s of the high street to show roughly where the cafe is.

Reid’s Cafe is just down from this statue, at the river end of the High Street.