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Dramatic light - a fine haze in the sky looking straight into the sun, with a bright reflection off the south end of Loch Tay.
The mountain is Sron na Clachainn.
Also in yummy black & white.
Staring at the sun - sunset the length of Loch Rannoch.
HDR*5 panorama*2 DNGs converted in RawTherapee, stitched in Hugin, retoned in Affinity Photo.
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A toned black-and-white photograph of trees concentrating on the natural forms of trunk and branch - how limbs grow, split and stretch through space. Some trees lean or bend under their own weight, others reach upward or out in wide arcs.
Light filters through the canopy, casting soft highlights and deep shadows that bring out the grain of the bark and the structure of the leaves.
No dramatic weather or wide vistas here - just closeup attention to the way trees deport themselves in the quiet of the woods.
Nature does not require justification - least of all as a means to further some goal of mankind - especially because humanity has yet to develop a collective exhaustive knowlege, much less appreciation, of its unknown delights, benefits and pitfalls. It should just be, pure, beautiful in its authentic rawness, left to do what it will.
One of my favourite trees up Laggan Hill - there's something aesthetically pleasing about the way this old tree leans -
I looked up and the trees filled the viewfinder so I pushed the shutter button.
A few more from around the area on the blog: soc.sty.nu/2016/10/glen-lednock-water/
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.
Cool blue: an HDR panorama of Loch Turret reservoir by night.
Total exposure time: 432s (K-1, 108s with pixel-shift).
Well, it dates from late 18th Century, really - but it's quite a quaint little packhorse bridge the other side of the River Lyon.
Ominous dark clouds passing overhead, shafts of light on the water of Loch Lomond.
Taken from Duncryne Hill aka The Dumpling.
Also in funky arty black&white.
Sunlight on mountains around the head of Loch Fyne - Glenkinglas. Taken from the front at Inverary - a beautiful sunny day.
Intimate landscape: closeup detail of water flowing fast around rocks in the Allt Mor waterfall, Kinloch Rannoch.
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A slightly different angle on the usual view - the length of Loch Turret from above the dam wall.
DJI Phantom 4 Advanced: 5-shot AEB bracketed HDR DNG processed with dcraw, enfuse and darktable.
Times change. The castle, of motte-and-bailey design, was built in 1160 CE on what was then an island off the south-east corner of Loch Ore.
Over the centuries it has changed hands a few times and been completely replaced (known as the Castle of Inchgall).
Recently the surrounding moat has been reclaimed so the ground is no longer an island, but merely a peninsula off the loch, accessible as part of a very urban country park just outside Ballingry.
Several of my favourite elements came to the fore in the making of this photo: a contrast of mankind and nature, of timescales of cloud and land usage, the wabi-sabi appeal-factor in decay.
Another experiment combining (Nisi) CP2+ND6 filters for long exposure, pixel-shift for resolution and HDR for dynamic range (and even longer exposure). With that many samples per pixel, noise reduction is not required.
Sunlight catching tendrils of rain falling over Crieff, Strathearn.
3*±1EV HDR (blended with enfuse) * many frames (stitched with Affinity) for a 100MPel HDR panorama.
A long exposure, landscape image of Scurdie Ness on the Angus coast, opposite Montrose.
It rained copiously for an hour as we stood and attempted to photograph the lighthouse. Perhaps another day...
I thought the ferns, water, boudler and branches made an interesting pattern of overlaid lines and lumps and areas
A classic view down the length of Loch Tay, hints of mist in the distant mountains and trees on the foreground island.
Also in dull colour.
Detail of three remaining leaves clinging to a thin stem.
It's not white, it's a platinum tone tint... Just you try finding such a stark strand of elegance against the sky!
Nature's patterns, shapes, forms and textures. Seen during a garden stroll during lockdown
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It was a beautiful afternoon - clear blue skies, sunny day - exploring Strathmore, so I just had to stop at Dun Dornaigil where the drone provided an excellent vantage point from which to view the remains of an impressive stone broch.
Having strolled through the woods from Glen Clova, one emerges into a wide corrie complete with small river running through the glacial morraine.
A contrast of speeds: clouds zipping by overhead, wind blowing around the lighthouse and the North Sea waves lapping around sandstone rocks.
Even better in shiny black and white.
A galaxy group in Ursa Major and Camelopardalis, one of the nearest galaxy groups to the Local Group at approximately 3.6Mpc away.
The big obvious spiral is M81, Bode's Galaxy at about 12 Mly away, with a supermassive black hole about 70 million solar masses. The bright blue the spiral arms are star formation regions; the pink/red spots are nebulae.
The second-largest is M82, aka the Cigar Galaxy, also 12Mly away, home to the brightest pulsar yet known, M82-X-2. Tidal forces from interaction with M81 have caused massive star formation.
The wispy lines and areas are Integrated Flux Nebulae (IFN), bodies of gas and dust outwith the main body of the galaxy illuminated by the light of the galaxies themselves. You could say it's a bit faint - there are stars down to magnitude 16.1 in here, easily.
This is 8 hours' exposure on the Altair 26C using 3-min subs, gain 100, Neodymium filter.
An experiment - the interior of a Nissen hut at Cultybraggan prisoner-of-war camp with a tree texture superimposed.
A favourite tree, an old and gnarly character, standing between two fields outside Muthill. Taken at dusk with a vibrant glowing pink Belt of Venus aka Earth's Shadow above the horizon.
A beautiful moment, flying fairly high mid-way across Loch Rannoch between Bridge of Ericht and Bridge of Gaur looking east away from the setting sun.
In the middle is Eilean nam Faoileag, a tiny (17x10m) crannog/island with a tower, a facsmile of a former prison on it.
Continuing the line of sight to the opposite shore one arrives at the Black Woods of Rannoch, a Caledonian Forest Reserve and from this angle, home to some surprisingly outstanding tall trees amongst the Scots Pines.
The snow-capped mountain beyond the Black Woods is Schiehallion (Sìdh Chailleann), a peak at 1083m and because of its conical shape, famously used in Mason's experiment to calculate the mass of the Earth and thus G, the coefficient of gravity, in 1774.
Technicalities: HDR*5 (enfuse) * Panorama*10 (Affinity) + toning (Affinity)
Winter at its finest - alternating phases of gorgeous bright sunshine juxtaposed with clouds of hail passing by in the darker distance.
Strathearn, south of Comrie.
Also in black and white.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015.
It's got Buachaille Etive Mor in, from the River Coupall, but it's not the usual composition...
With the water levels so low, I went down below the bridge and explored the rocks (red/pink rhyolite/granite) and water flowing around the boulders.
There wasn't much water in the River Coupall so I found an alternative angle - it involved sitting uncomfortably on the rocks overhanging the drop to the gorge. (Yay for erosion.) But that's OK, it's what you do when you've got a 7mm lens, right?
The fine tendrils of birch tree branches silhouetted against the sky, sunrise tinging the clouds bright orange and purple-blue.
Good timing: after driving around Loch Rannoch we arrived at the well-known viewpoint (the outflow of the Annat Burn into the loch) to see the Moon rising beside Schiehallion across the water.
It certainly is well-named. WIth vapour spraying up off the waterfall, it wasn't long before the lens got covered in fine droplets
One of my favourite subjects - semi-abstract lines made by tree branches amongst the foliage, filling the frame
Simple stuff: clouds flowing out over the sea, looking past near rocky outcrops to Caithness on the far horizon.
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