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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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Loch Kindar, south of New Abbey, Dumfries & Galloway. I was on my way up
the nearby hill, called Criffel. My tripod was too heavy to take along, but
if I had, I’d have thought more about my camera settings, and used f/11 for
more depth of field. I need to find the money for a carbon fibre Gitzo
Explorer!
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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
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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The ‘watercolour’ quality of this image reminds me of a painting of SirPeter Scott’s. All that is missing are the geese.buy a print on imagekind
Criffel is the hill which lies to the southwest of Dumfries, and overlooks the town. The path is extremely muddy, and difficult going. Half way up,I nearly called it a day, as the light looked so dull. However, I persevered, and was rewarded by beautiful shafts of soft evening light when I reached the top. The shot heading my home page was taken that same day. Coming back down the hill in darkness was very challenging, but somehow that didn’t matter after the excitement of the photography.buy a print on imagekind
