View allAll Photos Tagged ShapeAndForm
An iconic view - a famous landmark on the coast, south of Stonehaven, looking out over the North Sea.
Also in shiny colour.
Undulating hills to the ENE of Birnam Hill, showing the path of the Highland Boundary Fault through the landscape.
(Manipulated!)
Beside the A93 looking south down Glenshee, just below the Cairnwell, clouds so low the tops of the mountains were getting lost in the sea of grey.
It was too good an opportunity to miss: with covid restrictions suggested keeping within Perthshire, but weather forecast suggesting oodles of thick fog around the time of sunrise around Rannoch, I just had to get up and go.
For once, the weather didn't disappoint. The fog was indeed thick, the sunlight came with a first flush of red to the east and pink to the west, then faded obscured by mist, returning golden around sunrise itself.
The low cloud was so thick and consistent I never even saw the favoured mountain, Schiehallion, all morning; but the views across the loch to the trees on the opposite shore were awesomely atmospheric.
Prints, cards, masks and things are available via the website: Misty Morning Loch Rannoch 5.
Beautiful strong autumn morning sunlight illuminating birch trees.
Small cascades in the River Affric.
Also in black and white. and immersive.
An amazing moment in the landscape: as the sun rose behind the hill in the distance, brilliant light illuminated the foreground fog, the tree casting rays of light and shadow in the mist.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/gallery/glen-devon
A long exposure of Buchanty Spout, a fast-flowing falls through a small gorge in the River Almond.
The rock is an early Devonian conglomerate of andesitic lava with local quartzite and other lithologies typical of the Highlands, interbedded with andesite, basaltic andesite and basalt lava members, with a minor dash of sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. In short, the sort of general mix to be expected for being just away from the HBF.
Lots of mist in the distance, travelling the A832 beside Little Loch Broom past Beinn Ghobhlach.
I was rather glad to get back in the car and head off before the weather got really bad!
Early morning at Dunnottar Castle: once the sun rose, the clouds were illuminated in glorious shades of bright warm orange-red.
The well-known Ash tree at Frandy Fisheries, Glen Devon, in the last few moments of pre-dawn twilight as the sunlight started to make its way down the surrounding hillsides, fog in the distance.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/gallery/glen-devon
Minimalist long exposure: a handful of cormorants sitting on a rocky outcrop next to Dunnicaer, from the Stonehaven war memorial.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/The-Sea-8c4c236c837cc4d7dfafb3...
That drone perspective - straight down on the landscape, great for enhancing abstract forms.
In this case, looking down on the Isle of Spar, well known for appearing in photos looking the length of the loch from Kenmore.
Subtle hints of mankind's influence on nature: fence and superstition
It bugs me that this waterfall is apparently called "Eas na Callich" on both the Forestry Commission boards and even the OS map. #SpellingDisaster #Gaelic
The early bird might get the worm, but the late photographer gets the mist.
I arrived fairly late in the day, with only two other folks in evidence; they said it was their second attempt at the obvious view because the first had had 20-30 folks milling around.
Having seen a few wispy clouds of mist floating around further down the Glen before turning off to Glen Etive, I waited until the light had faded and caught a bit of silver lapping around Stob Dearg...
Prints and things: RedBubble.
Best way to spend a very wet Sunday afternoon: grab dog and camera, go find a waterfall.
I wasn't going to mess around with changing prime lenses and fancy filters in the rain, so this is made using the 28-105mm zoom and a variable-ND filter; it's not hard to compensate for distortion and correct the sharpness afterwards.
A thick cloud obscured the freshly risen sun - its edges casting crepuscular rays over the hazy landscape.
Autumn at my favoured viewpoint, Rhicarn in Assynt.
Prints and things are available from my website: ShinyPhoto: Assynt.
A classic view down the length of Loch Tay, hints of mist in the distant mountains and trees on the foreground island.
Also in arty black and white.
A classic scene - down at the beach at Portknockie, well, lying flat-out on a rocky boulder with the water lapping around, waves coming in breaking in front of me...
For just these two minutes the light and clouds were in just the right places.
Also in glowing black and white
A perfect subject for an abstract art: dense close strata layers of psammite (mid/coarse-grained metamorphosed sandstone) tightly packed.
In some ways, the Young Pretender - the foreground sycamore tree here - is arguably more characterful than the Birnam Oak beyond, even though it's barely 300yr old. A lovely gnarly old tree with raised butress roots and branches flying off in all directions.
Prints and things are available from the website: The Young Pretender.
Proper colours. The most beautiful shade of green pine foliage interspersed with orange/yellow warm birch trees, all lapping up the early morning light.
Early morning at Dunnottar Castle: once the sun rose, the clouds were illuminated in glorious shades of bright warm orange-red.
I was feeling a bit artistic with this one again.
A grey afternoon, with enough contrast in the clouds to be moody. Low water levels in the River Coupall revealing more of the pink granite (rhyolite) than I've seen before, but enough movement to add interest to the well-known scene of Buachaille Etive Mor in Glen Etive.
Projection: Panini General (19)
FOV: 79 x 84
Ev: 10.64
Prints and things: Low Water.
I suspect a lot of people have dangled over this fence-post by the cliff-edge to make this photo, or something very similar. Still works, though - I like the arc of the foreground cliffs giving just enough clear view of the stacks beyond.
Truth be told, I absolutely hated this excursion. Adding a new hill is not that common an occurrence, and with a head full of many thinks, I saw more a lousy lump on the landscape and wet and wind and rain and mud and mist and cold than I saw sunlight that afternoon.
The post-processing is also a bit cloudy-headed to reflect the feeling
An iconic location - everyone knows this from a viewpoint on top of the harbour wall looking out to sea. I thought I'd try a different angle, looking down on the thing instead - it shows how much perspective is compressed.
Pleasantly vibrant colours on the camera - some structure was just about visible to the naked eye.
Made with a 50mm Pentax lens acquired for cheap second-hand in my friendly local camera shop. Works well with the astro-tracker on the K-1 ;)
A lone wind turbine on the distant horizon, silhouetted against a vibrant glowing orange sunset.
Also without orange.
The unmistakable shape of Suilven (SÚilebheinn) catching an oblique beam of warm early morning sunlight.
Prints and things are available from the website: Sunlight on Suilven
Yeah, that tree. The water level was low in Loch Lomond so I concentrated on the line of the trees along the shore, as well as the dark cloud moving overhead.
Autumn morning at its very best: the rising sun skimming the distant mountain rims, the low gold light and rain clouds bathing the landscape in warm sepia light.
Two of my favourite trees at the Nice Place(TM), a silver birch (that I think of as the dancer), amongst the heather.
Prints, masks and things are available from the website: Sepia Showers.
I've been looking forward to this conjunction for months - ever since deciding to get into astrophotography last year.
In the event, many practice runs shooting the Pleiades were useful, if not for image data as I'd hoped but at least for getting familiar with setting up the tracking mount and camera in quick order to catch a few photons during a committee meeting.
Sony A7r3 with K&F light-pollution filter:
38 lights: ISO 800, f/6.3, 30s, pixel-shift
78 bias frames
96 darks
24 flats
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, finished in Affinity.
A testament to the value of looking behind you whilst making photos: looked up and saw a fog-bow over the town of Stonehaven. Most impressive - it lasted over 20 minutes coming and going in brightness, with superluminaries and a double bow at times.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Cloud-bow--Stonehaven-War-Memo...
A classic scene - down at the beach at Portknockie, well, lying flat-out precariously on a rocky boulder to keep my shadow out of the shot, with the water lapping around, waves coming in breaking in front of me...
For just these two minutes the light and clouds were in just the right places.
Also in shiny colour.
An interesting area to explore: the river running through Strathearn, its own floodplain, beside a disused railway line - the area now used for sheep farming.
Blog: Exploring Strathearn.
The West Woods of Ethie make for a pleasant stroll, even on a soggy autumn day. Most Beech, it lurches from clearing to clearing...
The familiar view of the approach to the castle, now-fenced paths leading down the slope to the entrance.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Dunnottar-Castle-8a20e0a33b776...