More Than A Thousand Words

 For my birthday, I received an SLR camera. I love it. I'm not a great photographer by any stretch of the imagination but I'm enjoying picking up some skills as one might say. There's a cemetery (a deceptively big cemetery actually) at the bottom of my road so last weekend me and Beaton (my camera) went for a bit of a stroll round there. I only had 50 minutes before it closed so I plan to return at some point  for longer, more than once I hope. It'd be nice to take some people with me one time actually. Anyway, I ramble. Here's some examples of what I took last weekend.















































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