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Black Woods of Rannoch late in the day - hints of mist rising in the distance, colours turned cool.
It's interesting how this end of the Black Woods is so much more densely planted - even though the Scots Pine is a native species, it's still not naturally evolved. Indeed the history of the Black Woods includes attempts to log the forest - one can only presume this was an attempt to replant, with native species, but still with some potential degree of profit in mind.
As the eclipse passed, clouds moved in front of the moon giving a glorious red haze with hints of a glory.
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With temperatures plummeting below -20C this waterfall formed a series of beautiful cascading steps below which the water could still be heard flowing
It was a brilliant sunny afternoon - I was throwing Doglet into the river as often as I could to keep him cool - blue sky and yellow grass colours as vibrant as anything (especially with the help of a polarising filter).
The Abhainn Shira flows through peat bogs, in which there used to be Scots Pine trees, remnants of the Caledonian Forest of old - several times along the banks of the river I saw the dead old trees' bleached roots sticking out just below ground level.
Also in garish colour.
The River Tay wending its way along the Carse of Gowrie from above Kinnoull Hill, all bathed in nice autumn light. An HDR panorama from a few feet up ;)
Rohallion Lodge and Duncan's Hill from the Stair Bridge Viewpoint on Birnam Hill.
The Highland Boundary Fault runs straight through this scene, from near Rohallion Lodge through the trees in the very foreground.
Also in colour.
It remains one of my favourite views - up the A822 from Gilmerton above Monzie Joinery. Here we look back to the South-West, to Kate McNieven’s Crag, the rear aspect of the Knock of Crieff.
Ben Cruachan dominates the landscape around - this was taken from Glen Nant looking over the trees to the snow-capped mountain beyond
Darkness fell as I descended the Glen Lyon hills; just a few yards away from the car, I made out a pattern of trees just visible in the haze with mist in the distance.
Photographically, a tricky shot: there was no aperture sufficiently wide to give an image on the camera live-view; I could just make out leaves on the tree above this scene silhouetted against the sky so I attempted to focus on them, but the actual composition and focus were achieved by a process of trial and error shooting blind.
Leaving my phone on as a torch-light in the grass illumated the birch trees a vibrant orange against the cold blue of night beyond.
Sunlight on mountains around the head of Loch Fyne - Glenkinglas. Taken from the front at Inverary - a beautiful sunny day.
Detail of the moon, coloured vibrant red in a partial lunar eclipse, in a sky of blue - its light just catching passing clouds in the foreground.
Lines and colours - birch trees basking in the golden sunlight of autumn
Also in soulful black&white.
One way of passing a wet Sunday afternoon - grab camera and Dog and go hunt a new waterfall.
Detail of part of the Ample Burn flowing around a fallen tree trunk through southern Highland group rocks (psammite and semi-pelite) at Edinample.
Not quite the view I had in mind from this location - but you cant' beat a nice glen even if it does have a carpark in it
The folks at Ordnance Survey have yet to see fit to name this - and as culverts barely a foot wide go, I'm not entirely surprised - but I am rather fond of this view.
If you walk barely 10yd away from the main track through the Black Woods of Rannoch at the right point, there used to be a pebble in the bank of this culvert, from which this is the view. The joys of a different, lower and wider, perspective.
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Beautiful light capturing the soft bracken-covered crags on Birnam Hill.
The Highland Boundary Fault line runs almost immediately below the camera at this point - I first spotted it by how the ground dips in the saddle-shape planted with younger trees.
Drive road. Turn corner. See view. Find parking spot. Grab camera. Trot back and take photo. Admire light and reflection and huge bulk of Ben Venue.
Such is the way of the roadside photographer, anyway
Having watched a few too many landscape-photography youtube channels of late, I thought I'd experiment looking for depth and distance in some of my favoured beech woods, the West Woods of Ethie. This composition caught my eye: from the tendril of a root amongst fallen leaves leading up to some middle-aged trees developing a middle-aged gnarly character, to the distance.
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a man drifts through a slice of light like thought through memory, suspended in a fleeting geometry of shadow and stone. the ground beneath him is history — uneven, worn, deliberate — and above, forgotten sneakers swing like relics of stories once lived.
The Bowder Stone, outside Keswick - a glacial erratic, approx 2000 tonnes of stone, 15m in diameter.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2014
The first star coming out - the snow on Leacann Dubh and Creag Leacach glistening in cold light of winter's dusk.
Cold weather, at -2C, too - but the colours, the pure whites of snow against the rich vibrant blue sky, were worth every frozen minute of the drive.
The blues were so intense I had to disable RawTherapee's Olympus colour profile and stay in ProPhotoRGB in darktable to avoid gamut errors.
(Also looks quite good in black and white.)
Mid-way between the 1:3 gradients of Hardknott pass and mere 1:4 gradients of Wrynose, there was some absolutely stunning weather - my favourite combination of bright sunlit foreground with filthy stormy dark rainclouds in the distance, an optical sensory overload of saturation and contrast.
Utterly beautiful.
And it rained...
Also in arty black&white.
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Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015.
The other hill - Dumgoyne, from The Whangie - the dull light making its grass look velvetty soft.
Unlike where I was, I'm looking forward to climbing this one instead some time.
I love some of these mountains - particularly the smooth saddle shape of Sron nam Forsair, that small foothill of Clach Leathad.
Also in black and white.
Views found whilst descending Schiehallion: abstract patterns of large white fluffy clouds catching the sunlight.
A beautiful drive along the Strathmore/Hope Road out of Altnaharra - had to stop by the roadside to admire the clear sky and distinctive outline of Beinn Loyal across the blue waters of Loch Meadie
A great way to spend a sunny winter's Sunday afternoon - exploring new parts of Highland Perthshire, here above the River Tummel / Loch Faskally outside Pitlochry
Not a view I've encountered before - from Craigower outside Pitlochry looking across to Loch Tummel and hints of Rannoch beyond.
Wonderful evening sunlight on Binnein an Fhidhleir. Beinn Chorranach and Beinn Ime from the other side of Loch Fyne, opposite Ardkinglas .
An abstract view straight down on the Bunnet Stane, Fife, showing farm fields marked by walls and paths surrounding the rocky outcrops.
Just a beautiful contrast of glowing warm orange/gold coloured leaves against distant turquoise fir needles, with the silhouette of foreground branches resembling the leading in a stained-glass window.
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Another experiment with depth in my favoured beech woods, the West Woods of Ethie.
It's funny how we remember particular shapes and forms yet without any name. I could find this pair of tree-trunks and appreciate the wishbone shape on a foggy day, but describing it to anyone else is near impossible.
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