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Taken just off the Southern Upland Way a couple of miles to the West of
Beattock. Taking this image involved clambering down a steep muddy bank, but
I was struck by the intensity of colour in the moss at the foot of the trees.
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I didn’t know chickens could be so magnificent……or is it a cockerel -
shows how much I know!
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Seen from Telford’s Bridge….the shot has a voyeuristic feel to it with the
three business dudes. How strange people’s ability to know they’re being
photographed, even from over a hundred metres…..the architecty looking one
on the right had definitely ‘clocked me.’
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Yes, that’s right…it’s Katz’s Deli. What a time warp atmosphere, and what
enormous (and delicious) sandwiches!
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My fascination with dead trees continues! Sometimes I think their form and textures looks purer in monchrome.
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Taken last August, during the Festival. Edinburgh will always be my favourite city.
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With landscapes you need to capture the light……with people, you need to capture the ‘look’.
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I haven’t really attempted much nature photography, but I thought these birdswere beautiful, and I was impressed how they flew in such a tight formation.Obviously I need to buy myself a longer telephoto…….the onlydisadvantage of my full frame DSLR is that 200mm means exactly that.buy a print on imagekind
I know they’re over photographed, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t stillelegantly beautiful. This family live on our loch….at least until theparents drive the young ones off to fend for themselves.buy a print on imagekind
Had just got nearly got back to the car, very cold and wet after 5 hours ofphotography (you know that feeling, ‘I’ll just take one more…’, andsuddenly you missed lunch, and it’s 3.30pm), when I saw this charmingjuxtaposition of serene river, flowing into the wild sea. Maybe the bestshot of the day.buy a print on imagekind
As often happens to me……you’re engrossed in in photographing the mainsubject (in this case, the stormy sea), then you look over your shoulder andsee something totally different, but in it’s own way, just as interesting.buy a print on imagekind
Taken today (12th March 2008) - Rascarrel Bay is a few miles south ofAuchencairn, Dumfries & Galloway. ISO 50, 26mm, f/22, 1/20 sec. I decided to try a slow shutter speed to ’soften’ the waves, and it’s turned out quite nicely. Not one of those extreme low level, ultra wide angle shots, where pebbles are made to look larger than actual size…….those shiny rocks were about 60cm in diameter, and the waves were enormous!
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This was taken in Fjällgryckbo, Dalarna, Sweden. 30secs at F/5.6 at
ISO 400.
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Having a loch at the bottom of our garden, allows you to peep out the window, see the light is nice, and grab the camera and run. So much easier than sitting in a camper van for days (which I’ve never done!), by the side of a loch up the Highlands, waiting for beautiful light.
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Looking westward down the Solway from Criffel. Hestan Island, to the left centre of the image, is about 10miles away. I was so grateful to get this shot after struggling up 569m to the top of Criffel, because my 5D battery was dying………I switched off the image stabillisation and used the trig point as a ‘tripod’.buy a print on imagekind
Again in Lochwood. Not sure what the delicate white flower is. Anyway, I find there is something pleasantly restful about this image.
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Taken from Lochwood, looking east towards the hills south of Moffat. Therewas no snow in Lochmaben (4th March), then just a few miles to the north, itlooked like this.
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I’d spent ages trying to get a worthwhile shot of Lochmaben and its lochs,when I looked over my shoulder and this group were standing behind me.Perhaps one of my sharpest pictures……maybe the Heavy Horses & Farm Animals Group on Flickr will like it?
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Yesterday, (04 March 2008), we took a walk up a hill path passing a waterfall called the GreyMare’s Tail, inspired by the mare in Burns’ poem ‘Tam o’ Shanter’. Therewas lots of snow and beautiful views of the hills, but photographing thesewild goats was most fun. As you’ll see, I had an Ansell Adams inspired,high contrast monochrome moment.
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This is a magical place to walk around. The ancient oaks are so full ofindividual character…and you feel an intense connection with the past.Towards the end of April, the ground at the base of the trees is coveredwith bluebells. Location: a few miles south of Beattock, Dumfries &Galloway.buy a print on imagekind
They were so busy searching for something, that they totally ignored me.What beautiful colours, no wonder they strut around so proudly!
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Ever since ‘Blow Up’, the idea of photography in parks has held a certain fascination. Just as in the movie, you discover several people, in addition to the two guys in the rowing boat, “hiding” in the photo when you blow it up to a larger size.
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There had been a thunderstorm, and the cows were still sensibly lying down.We were going out running, but fortunately I had my camera with me. I was reminded that beautiful clouds can fly quickly away, and lose some of their drama by the time you can find a suitable foreground. Even so, I was quite pleased with the result.
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Actually a lake,not a fjord. Location: Hafslo, perhaps 70 miles north east
of Bergen
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I loved the Viking decoration forming the door frame….and why make it so
spookily tall for its width?Location: Lom Stave Church, Norway
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Location: roughly halfway between Moffat and the Devil’s Beeftub, Dumfries &Galloway.
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