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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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Perhaps not the best light for landscape work, being late morning / nearly noon, but quite nice and bright sunlight on Loch Cluanie nonetheless.
Sky above
The bulk of Glas Bheinn across
Loch na Gainmhich filling the corrie
Peat bog covered in heather
Frozen puddle
And it wasn't even winter yet - just the first snows of the season giving a thick dusting coat over the mountains. With the sun hiding behind clouds, the light was a beautiful dull grey.
There's more to Amulree than just a junction between the A822 and the Glen Quaich road.
There's been a church in the hamlet (Cill Ma-Ruibhe, originally on the north side of the River Braan) since the Middle Ages, taking its dedication from St Maelrubha. The current building was erected between 1743 and 1752 with a brief break in 1745. Its bell was cast in Belgium in 1519.
The church contains records of local people emigrating to Canada, mostly North Easthope, in the early 19th Century.
A duck swimming around wooden posts, the remains of a landing jetty opposite Catbells, Derwentwater.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015.
A view down the length of Loch Ness from beside the pub at Dores, with the remaining posts of a ruined jetty in the foreground.
Pentacon 50mm lens.
Literal vs potential seeing.
It's just got no respect for hikers, honestly - the Allt Bhaltair river tumbling on its way down to Loch Turret
Situated on the southern shores of Loch Rannoch, the Black Woods are one of two Caledonian Forest reserves in Perthshire.
It's interesting to analyze them from the point of view of tree density: there are areas of dense plantation (even if it is pine, it's been treated as monoculture); there are parts of the forest that have been replanted following attempts to fell for timber (heathens!); and there are the most obviously natural native areas with a healthy mix of trees - not all pines, but some older granny Scots Pines every so often. It's in the deeper parts of the forest that the trees are most characterful...
The little ray of sunlight coming through the distant trees caught my eye.
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I caught a glimpse of the distant dull light of dusk as I drove over the bridge at Struy - so I parked, walked back and made this.
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.
Perhaps the clearest view into the workings of the Highland Boundary Fault I can think of. On the left, red-purple microbasalt (its fine cuboidal structure putting me in mind of streaky thick bacon); elsewhere the blue-green-grey of psammite and pelite, medium- to fine-grained metamorphosed former sandstones. All jumbled together with fine cracks and lines of marble hinting at the pressures involved.
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Simply beautiful landscape - the shoreline leading into the distance, blue sky and water, rugged hills...
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A view across Loch Assynt to the impressive formation of Inchnamph caves.
The 'Bone Caves' of Inchnadamph contain relics of Eurasian lynx, brown bear, Arctic fox, reindeer (dated to as long ago as 47,000 BP), the only evidence of polar bears so far found in Scotland, and human skeletons dated to the 3rd millennium BC.
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Beautiful diffuse warm light: early morning golden hour, visibility so low all but one lone dead tree and its former branch were obscured in the fog.
A view into the depths of the woodland, particularly concentrating on the curves and shapes of the trees.
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A classic view: dead tree trunks submerged at the mouth of the Annat Burn flowing into Loch Rannoch, looking across the water to Schiehallion in the difstance.
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A bit of light making its way through the clouds between the bulk of Gearr Aonach and part of the craggy ridge, Aonach Eagach, along Beinn Fhada, two of the Three Sisters of Glencoe
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Detail of former railway sleepers, concrete posts increasingly covered in moss/lichen, forming homes for all kinds of mini-beasts.
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The West Woods of Ethie make for a pleasant stroll, even on a soggy autumn day. Most Beech, it lurches from clearing to clearing...
Light and lines: the bulk of the Birnam Oak, props supporting one of its arms, with the Young Pretender sycamore in the background
A nice stroll through the woods, a view across the gorge to the full height of the waterfall, some scrambling around on the banks to get down to this level (a small fraction of the total height down from the top) with friend and dog... A good way to spend an afternoon
Snow-covered trees around a frozen pool by the roadside.
I've been trying to take a photo of this small pond for a while, but never quite seen the opportunity. Today, winter provided.
It was just a bit orange... gorgeously pinkly orange... Yum.
The mountains in the back are Stob an Uillt Dharaich and Beinn na h'Uamha
A large foggy cloud flowing over Stob Binnein and Ben More outside Crianlarich, from Lix Toll near Killin.
Still a fragment of snow on the mountains even in midsummer :)
Fuji X-T20, ancient Vivitar 135mm lens, panorama in Affinity Photo.
Usual shot. Dull cool light of dusk. Nice pointy mountain. Nice rowan tree. Nice waterfall with not too much flow. Nice rhyolite rocks.
The third kind of woodland on the afternoon's stroll was another obvious man-made arrangement, but this time an avenue of beech trees, one of which looked quite spooky waving its branches around in the only patch of sunlight.
Sometimes, one has to embrace the lens-flare. Beautiful sunlight on undulating green crop fields.
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A synthetic long exposure of Loch Rannoch - remains of a fossilised tree on the shore in the foreground looking across to Schiehallion in the distance.
876 frames went into the making of this image - HDR bracketed ±1EV totalling 578s over 43mins.
Fuji X-T20, 16-50mm, cheap vari-ND filter, bar of choccie, flask of tea.