Posts tagged ‘Dumfries & Galloway’
Swans in the mist
Many of my best images were taken from the bottom of our garden, because, when the light is special, you can get down there in thirty seconds. This shot was taken yesterday morning, when the sun was still very low in the sky. Just printed it out to A3+, and it looks quite good. So, I’ve put it into my ‘exhibition collection’…….if I ever get round to having one!
Greyfriars, Dumfries
Taken with the 5D and the 24-105mmf/4L, the verticals corrected with
Lens-fix CI. When viewed on a Imac 24″ you can see that the stonework on
the church is amazingly sharp. ISO 400 at f/10, 1/400sec at 24mm. My
nephew, Iain Guthrie, who recommended I buy a 5D, and who uses his for
professional aerial photography, was quite right in saying that in decent
light, the 5D gives as good quality at ISO 400 than at anything lower.
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From Criffel
When I got to the top, I thought I’d left it too late, and that the soft
evening sun was going to remain behind heavy, dark clouds. Then it
miraculously emerged for perhaps just two minutes. Near horizontal shafts of
warm, beautiful light, like the of a beam of light coming from a lighthouse,
lit up the cairn. A special, strangely exciting, photographic moment.
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Cummertrees
This evening, 15th April, on the way home from Powfoot.Perhaps the weirdest landscape I’ve ever taken…a strange juxstaposition of
rolling field, and almost exotic domestic architecture. And, of course, you
can’t see it, but there is also a crow sitting on the wire next the
telegraph pole. It reminds me of an illustration from a children’s book.
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Approaching Storm
Yesterday evening there was the most amazing light. The sky got so dark,
and yet the sun still got through. The loch mirrored the green fields and
the trees. The colours looked unreal in their intensity. I thought, ‘
Ansell Adams got light like this most days, but it’s the first time I’ve
seen it..’ Perhaps that’s what makes landscape photography so challenging?
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Templand Tree
My fascination with dead trees continues! Sometimes I think their form and textures looks purer in monchrome.
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Oyster Catchers
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
Take a Bow
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
Rascarrel Bay 3
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
