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Nice aurora - very bright greens and purples with rays - against the Milky Way in the background.
Taken outside Balgowan, Perthshire
It's been a few years since I went exploring around Fife, but it was good to see Elie again.
The tide rose about an inch as I was shooting this. Apparently my hiking boots are no longer waterproof :/
There's something seductive about a tunnel of trees wending its way into the distance - even if the path is hardly subtle.
There's something incredibly appealing about the sight of a wet and glossy sheet of black+white film hanging up to dry. This isn't anything of the sort, but it does prompt me to try presenting the negative image as primary.
Beautiful early morning light - the previous night's light dusting of snow starting to melt hiding in the hazy precipitation, a rainbow and glorious bright light on the Scots Pines.
Ringing-in the New Year with fireworks in Crieff from Auchterarder... with an aurora arching overhead.
I've photographed this dead tree-stump amongst the heather more than once previosuly. Hopefully the results are improving.
The carpark is barely noticeable by the roadside, but the views over the Appin of Dull from the slopes of Kenmore Hill are idyllic; a perfect afternoon's escape.
On this particular occasion, there were an awful lot of midges flying around making it singularly unpleasant trying to stand still long enough to make the photo.
Beautiful sunlight illuminating heavy precipitation, light subtly reflecting on the water, on the approach to Craignure.
Quite a lot of data went into the making of this scene - using the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 FE lens and a Gobe variable ND filter to make the exposure 10s, pixel-shift for higher resolution, I swung the camera around to initially make a very wide panorama. In practice this vertical 4:5 crop was more appealing.
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Projection: Rectilinear (0)
FOV: 66 x 35
Ev: 4.08
Wonderful rock strata - the crags of Meallan Ghobhar and Coille na Dubh Chlaise - a layer of lower cambrian quartz-arelite between neoproterozoic sandstone and mudstone.
Doglet had his breakfast by the roadside.
Words: Blog.
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 black and white.
One of a few studies with the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.4 lens: a semi-abstract view of repeating vertical lines of tree trunks with pleasant glowing light behind.
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Some of the most awesome colours I've ver seen at sunset - the sort of thing you only get on the West Coast of Scotland. Sky graduating from blue to orange-pink reflecting silver-blue off the water of Loch Linnhe.
The obvious hill in the middle is An Torran near Inversanda, with a couple of lochans lurking the other side.
Passing sunlight and cloud-shadows across Meall a'Bhuiridh and the lovely saddle-shaped Creag an Fhirich, across Lochan na h'Achlaise
The beginnings of a beautiful colourful Earth's Shadow / Belt of Venus above the horizon; Catterline bay coast.
Visibility about 30yd; walking in new woodlands among tall trees with a huge craggy hillside by the path.
Detail of the Keltie Water flowing through diamicton till rockery, Bracklinn Falls outside Callander
Lots of lines. Stripes. Angles. Trees doing what trees do. Leaves. Not much light. That sort of thing.
One of a few studies with the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.4 lens: a strong shape: young tree trunks growing out of the undergrowth.
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Another take on last night's aurora display - this time with synthetic night-time simulation to cool the colour temperature, removing some of the lurid orange light-pollution.
I never knew M31 was so obvious...
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It's not often I set out to emulate someone else's photo exactly, but having seen Ron Dekker's view of this scene in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year award (3rd edition), I had to have a go.
I particularly wanted to emulate three features of Ron's original: the particular loose arrangement of trees; the composition including the Sleeping Giant in the background; a gentle black and white toning.
On my first visit, I got as far as the edge of Craig Varr and admired the scenery - everything from mountaintops of Glencoe the other side of Rannoch Moor to the West to Kinloch Rannoch at my feet below the crag - but forgot to take the photo to compare the composition.
The second time it was pleasantly cooler, the walk up the hill much easier for knowing the way, and I found a reasonable location to emulate the composition, lining-up the various trees to match.
Conveniently, the scene fit just right within the field of view of my Helios 58mm lens (when stuck on the Fuji X-T20), so that's what I used, stopping-down to about f/8 for depth of field.
DoF? It transpires perspective-compression is quite a feature in the scene; the foreground trees are 50-100yd away but the distant mountains are 2km away the other side of Kinloch Rannoch.
Some kind of wooden pier/jetty thing (possibly for fishing?) on the edge of Loch Tollaidh
Also black and white
Also less art.
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It remains one of my favourite views - up the A822 from Gilmerton above Monzie Joinery, looking west toward Crieff. Beautiful.
Well, it dates from late 18th Century, really - but it's quite a quaint little packhorse bridge the other side of the River Lyon.
Taken with a Pentax 50mm f/1.7 lens using custom pinhole filter (aka hole drilled in the lenscap) for softness.
Token contirbution to the increasingly commercialised celebration of Hallowe'en: have an ooky-spooky birch tree from deep in the Black Woods of Rannoch.
When in St Monan's... it's about time I took this scene, the classic view of the breakwater at St Monan's harbour, Fife. I was particularly drawn to the difference in light and shade across either side of the concrete lump.
Sunlight, conglomerate sandstone, passing clouds... and Dunnottar Castle.
This is probably my favourite shot from that morning, an hour after the solar eclipse in March.
Slightly wider view.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015
Sunlight, conglomerate sandstone, passing clouds... and Dunnottar Castle.
Alternatively, with nice vintage colouring.
Alternatively2, cropped to remove the mud: www.flickr.com/photos/spodzone/20021649415/
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015.
Usual shot. Dull cool light of dusk. Nice pointy mountain. Nice rowan tree. Nice waterfall with not too much flow. Nice rhyolite rocks.
Also possibly better in colour.
Distant snow-capped mountains; a handful of toothpick wind turbines in the middle distance; a few late-turning orange-covered trees among the dark green conifers in the foreground. View of the mountains of Glen Orrin and Strathconon from Fyrish by Alness.
Most people would be trying to take a photo of Slains Castle immediately hogging most of the field of view to the left. Me, I aimed for the coastline and made this study of the rocks instead. Yay rocks.
Also in colour.
I've shot this scene several times over the last few years - er, decades - but it remains a favourite location, particularly at dusk or sunrise.
Also in low-key glowy colour.
A craggy ridge along Beinn Fhada from the obvious carpark across Glencoe.
Words: heading home.
Also in black and white.
Distant sunlight skimming across mountains in the Black Mount - Meall a Bhuiridh, Clach Leathad and my favourite saddle-shaped Creag an Fhirich
Most people would be trying to take a photo of Slains Castle immediately hogging most of the field of view to the left. Me, I aimed for the coastline and made this study of the rocks instead. Yay rocks.
Also in arty-farty black and white.