Steven Neish

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A Neish in search of a niche. Scottish volunteer and psychology graduate into travel, wildlife and photography. At home in Dundee and the northeast. Pictures and opinions my own.

The largest port crane in medieval Europe and Gdańsk most famous tourist attraction, towering over the Motława river.
Dunrobin Castle under a blue sky and at the end of a garden path.
An elaborate and colourful stained glass window depicting a judge at the centre of a courtroom scene.
The pink exterior of Abbot House, as viewed from Dunfermline Abbey. The cafe was open but the house itself was closed.
The main hall at Perth Art Gallery, with paintings hung between the arches on one wall and an arcade corridor on the other.
Interior of Paisley Abbey, showing stain glass windows above main entrance.
A view down the Ladder Burn to Glen Esk from the foothills of Mount Keen, Scotland’s most easterly Munro.
Braemar laid out beneath Morrone, with the Highland Games, Fife Arms Hotel and Braemar Castle visible below.
The number 13 bus to Queen's Cross departs Adelphi at dusk, driving into shot and away from Aberdeen Town House and Castlegate.
A boat from Balmaha called Margaret prepares to depart the pier at Inchcailloch, an island on Loch Lomond.
A pair of fox cubs, one sitting and the other standing, in overgrowth beside the River Dee in Aberdeen.
Staring head-on, a furious-looking buzzard glares down from a tree branch.
First light catches a Dundonian urban fox as it stops to glance back after being disturbed.
An evening stroll past Buachaille Etive Mòr on the West Highland Way.
A grey seal looks up from the shadows beneath Victoria Bridge.
Storm clouds gathering over St Cyriakus Pfarrkirche church and an incredibly humid Weeze.
Düsseldorf’s Rheinturm and Rheinkniebrücke photographed from the promenade at dusk.
A Schwebebahn train leaves Kluse station as it travels east along the River Wupper towards Oberbarmen.
A view of Eusebiuskerk from across an empty market square.
Domtoren is all that remains of the never actually completed St Martin's Cathedral, and is never far from sight as you walk the historic centre and beyond.
A view over the Hofvijver lake towards the red-bricked Binnenhof complex, currently being renovated (hence the Portaloo), and the skyscrapers beyond.
An orange sightseeing boat passes in front of Loetje restaurant and Amsterdam Central, through brown water and under a grey sky.
One of two murals commemorating Hergé at Brussels-Midi, this one replicating a scene from The Seven Crystal Balls in which Tintin and Snowy visit Moulinsart railway station.
Grote Church in The Hague, photographed from the tram tracks of Torenstraat.
The approach to NEMO Science Museum, with people sitting along its sloped, tiered roof.
Aberdeen City War Memorial, comprising a granite lion positioned at the centre of a curved colonnade.
A dipper lands on a handrail along Dundee's Dighty Burn.
A seal drifts slowly towards Victoria Bridge on the River Dee.
A dolphin's shadow beneath the waves at Greyhope Bay.
Multicoloured Aberdeen Inspired umbrellas hanging above Shiprow.
Yellow gorse under a blue sky on the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire.
A City Quay swallow turns in midair.
A swallow looks up from a concrete ledge.
The evening sun catches the clocktower of Aberdeen Town House while the rest of Union Street lies in shadow.
Two crewmembers watch a dolphin breaching from the bow of the VOS Seeker as it arrives into Aberdeen Harbour.
Wispy cirrus clouds over Dundee’s Murraygate glow pink in the minutes after sunset.
A close-up of a red kite surveying the ground from overhead, wings outstretched and out of frame.
A view of Dunnottar Castle straddling the Burn of Halymyres, with yellow gorse blooming on the clifftops.
A copy of Ben Coates’ The Invention of Amsterdam: A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks.
A close up of pink cherry blossom under a blue sky in Dawson Park.
A river cruise passes beneath Basel Münster at dusk on the Rhine.
Flooding sandflats at Tentsmuir Beach; the pooling water reflecting the blue sky.
Aberdeen Town House photographed across the cargo deck of MV Helliar as it enter's the North Harbour, with NorthLink's viking logo visible on the side of the bridge tower.
A repurposed and rebranded tram on Dundee’s High Street, shaded from dappled sunshine by white blossom.
A repurposed and rebranded tram on Dundee’s High Street, shaded from dappled sunshine by white blossom.
An eider drake in black, white and green breeding plumage throws its head back to coo.
A young roe deer pauses to look into the lens of a camera as it crosses a quiet road on Barry Buddon training area.
A view down the tracks to Broughty Ferry train station, showing an empty platform beneath an almost empty sky.
A buzzard with splayed wings soars through a blue sky.
Daffodils planted beneath Aberdeen’s coat of arms, featuring two leopards and the words “Bon Accord”, at the David Welch Winter Gardens.
A Finlathen Park roebuck passes in front of flats on Findale Street, Dundee.
Peter Merian-Weg, a sheltered path between transit lines and the Basel law faculty.
Schaffhausen train station with an SBB train at Platform 3.
The Abbey of Saint Gall under a blue sky.
Schaffhausen Munot reflected in the River Rhine.
A wild stork gathers nesting materials from one of Zoo Basel’s animal enclosures.
A roebuck with deformed antlers stands between a patch of daffodils and an upturned pram.