ratscat


Profile

ratscat
City: Elgin
Country: United Kingdom
Joined: Dec 2008

I love photography. I wish I could have a camera in my hand all the time but things like work get in the way! ;-)

I still spend a lot of time wandering around shooting anything that grabs my attention.

I try to avoid overprocessing my shots and mostly just convert to B&W (my fave!) or tweak the contrast and saturation to recapture an image closer to what I saw. I have done a little playing around with daguerrotypes and cross processing but B&W is still what I love most.

Please visit my bubblesite
images are also at jpg

Images copyright © Rachael Jones (all rights reserved)
Copying, displaying, manipulating or redistribution of any image from this portfolio without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited

All images display links to their individual copyrights

mottos I live my life by!

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

FEATURED ARTIST – Angel Wings and Heaven Group – May 2009

FEATURED ARTIST – Statues and Such – June 2009

FEATURED ARTIST – Victorian Viewfinders – June 2009

FEATURED ARTIST – Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009

RECENTLY FEATURED WORK/CHALLENGES ETC!!!!

Lest we Forget top ten placing in War Statue – in Statues and Such – November 2009

Lest we Forget – featured in Amazing Graves – May 2009

Iona Abbey – Courtyard – featured in Church Architecture – November 2009

Iona Abbey – Courtyard – featured in Alphabet Soup – October 2009

Peles Castle – featured in Castle Magic- November 2009

Peles Castle top ten placing in Haunted Castles – in All Castles Around the World – November 2009

Peles Castle top ten placing in Monochrome – in Alternative Process and Experimental Photography
– November 2009

Peles Castle – featured in The Patchwork – October 2009

Peles Castle – featured in Heritage, Listed and other Trusts Sites Worldwide – October 2009

Spring and pebbels – featured in Art by Bubble Hosts – November 2009

Spring and pebbels – featured in Beach Treasures – September 2009

Spring and pebbels – featured in Highland and Island Photographers – July 2009

Spring and pebbels – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – April 2009

Herald 5 – featured in Live, Love, Dream – October 2009

Skyline 1 – featured in Tone It Down – October 2009

Skyline 1 – featured in Angel Wings and Heaven – August 2009

Skyline 1 – featured in Amazing Graves – January 2009

Water Patterns 2 – featured in Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009 – October 2009

Water Patterns 2 – featured in All Things in the Natural World – October 2009

Driftwood 22 – featured in The Great Outdoors – October 2009

Driftwood 22 – featured in Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009

Driftwood 22 – featured in Going Coastal – August 2009

Driftwood 22 – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – May 2009

Culbin – Salmon Posts – featured in Tone It Down – October 2009

Culbin – Salmon Posts – featured in Scotland’s History – May 2009

Iona Abbey – main chapel – featured in JPG Cast Offs – October 2009

Through The Window – featured in Heritage, Listed and other Trusts Sites Worldwide – October 2009

Driftwood 24* – featured in Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009

Driftwood 24 – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – June 2009

Driftwood 6 – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – October 2009

Driftwood And Rope 3 – featured in Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009

Driftwood And Rope 3 – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – March 2009

The Light – featured in Digital Photography – October 2009

Tobermory Harbour – featured in Smuggler’s Haven – October 2009

Beauly priory Windows top ten placing in Black and White windows – in windows and doors – October 2009

Pebbles 1 – featured in Beach, River and Lake Treasures – October 2009

Inverness Cathedral – featured in Alphabet Soup – October 2009

Inverness Cathedral – featured in Tone It Down – August 2009

Inverness Cathedral – top ten placing in Cathedrals in Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses – August 2009

Pebbles 2 – featured in Beach Treasures – September 2009

Pebbles 2 – top ten placing in Letter P challengeAlphabet Soup Group – August 2009

Pebbles 2 – featured in Alphabet Soup – August 2009

Pebbles 2 – top ten placing in let there be rock in the Abstracts from Nature Group – March 2009

Pebbles 2 – featured in Abstracts from Nature Group – March 2009

Driftwood and Rope 2 – featured in Beach Treasures – September 2009

Driftwood and Rope 2 – featured in Flotsam and Jetsam – April 2009

The Cross – top ten placing in October AvatarStatues Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses – September 2009

The Cross – featured in Angel Wings and Heaven – June 2009

Celtic Cross – Nethybridge – featured in Alphabet Soup – September 2009

Negative Angel – featured in Alphabet Soup – September 2009

Negative Angel – featured in Alphabet Soup – August 2009

Negative Angel – featured in Amazing Graves – June 2009

Findochty Graveyard – featured in Amazing Graves – September 2009

Findochty Graveyard – featured in Going Coastal – May 2009

Headless Angel 2 – featured in Amazing Graves – September 2009

Headless Angel 2 – featured in Statues and Such – March 2009

Haworth Window 4 – featured in Angel Wings and Heaven – September 2009

Slumber – top ten placing in That’s a ReliefStatues and Such – September 2009

Slumber – featured in Statues and Such- August 2009

Slumber – featured in Amazing Graves – June 2009

Slumber – featured in Angel Wings and Heaven – June 2009

Kimloss Angel featured in Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses – September 2009

Haworth Window 2 – top ten placing in SEPTEMBER AVATAR ~ Stained Glass Window in Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses – August 2009

Skyline Angel – featured in Amazing Graves – August 2009

Skyline Angel – top ten placing in statue silhouette in Statues and Such – July 2009

Skyline Angel – featured in Amazing Graves – May 2009

Skyline Angel – featured in Out of the Blue – May 2009

OLDER FEATURES AND CHALLENGES!

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Groups

ratscat hosts Highlands and Islands Photographers and is a member of "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), >> XPro - Cross Processed - Photography, Abandoned Dark Creepy, All About Boating, All About Water, All Around the Styles, All Castles Around The World, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, All the Colors of the Rainbow, All things in the Natural World, Alphabet Soup (Letter P), Alternative Process and Experimental Photography, Amazing Graves, Angel Wings and Heaven, Art By Bubble Hosts , At the edge, Beach Art, Beach, River and Lake Treasures ( With location ), Bits and Pieces , Black and White Photography, Bridges, Castle Magic, Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Church Architecture, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: PINK [No Flowers]), Communities (NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES OR CLOSEUPS OF PERSONS, PLACES OR THINGS!!), Core [C.O.R.E], Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Digital Photography, Dilapidated Buildings, DSLR Users Only - 1/24 - Camera & Lens In Description Please., Ebony and Ivory, Eerie Lighting, EF Welcome Center, Everyday Life, Everything Winter, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, Fine Art of Landscape Photography, Flotsam & Jetsam, Friends of RedBubble, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Harbour Life, Heritage in Stone, Heritage Listed and Other Trusts Sites World Wide, Historic Churches, Horizons, If it doesn't belong, JPG Cast-Offs, Just Pure Nature., Landscape Photography, Live, Love, Dream: , Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Nature's Wonders, Nikon DSLR Users Group - 2 uploads per 24 hours, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Outsiders, Photo Manipulators, Photography - Rule of Thirds, Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Requiem, Rural Around The Globe, Safe Haven, Scenery, Scotlands History, SEA, Sepia Only, Shades of Grey, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shifting Sands, Silhouette, Simple by Design, Smugglers Havens. 2 a Day Please., Statues and Such, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The FENCE group, The Great Outdoors (no garden shots, limit man made objects to wilderness gear, please), The Grunge Art Gallery, the love of Eerie and enchanting artwork, The Patchwork , The Scavenger Hunt, The Scots are Coming, THE SISTERHOOD, The true beauty, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, The World, This is England, Timber and Water, Tuesday Afternoon, Two Beings Group, United Kingdom, Unwanted , Abandoned & Saved Through Preservation., Victorian Viewfinders, War , Who are YOU to Judge?, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Windows and Doors, Yorkshire Grit, Your Country's Best (2 images per day), Your Magic PLACE and à EUROPA!.