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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.
A bit of an experiment - brand new shiny Pentax K-1 and ancient Hoya 100-300mm f/5 lens at full extent and f/8. Seems to have worked.
I do love that pearlescent iridescence in the clouds.
Some of the defining features of Highlands landscape: a couple of psammite/semi-=pelite boulders in front fo birch and Scots Pine trees in Glen Cannich.
This remains one of my favourite waterfalls - cool, pure and refreshing tumbling out of the hillside.
Admiring lights and clouds and layers of mountains receding into the distance along the line of the Highland Boundary Fault.
Not bad for a view from a layby. I love it up here.
A semi-abstract view; stalks of grass submerged in a flooded field, Bridge of Earn.
I liked the way the sky reflected in silvery blue off the water, in a pattern flowing around the protruding clumps of grass.
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 tasty black and white.
A plethora of lines - hawthorn trees in the snow.
Getting somewhere with my new handheld-HDR workflow for the Pentax K-1.
A rather rugged attempt at a window-sill - a view from inside the reconstructed Black House looking out at the Aillean Forest, above Loch Tummel, Pitlochry
The start of the track through the Reelig Glen outside Inverness, covered in fallen leaves of Autumn
An unusual angle for me: took the drone down into the gorge to be more on a level with the natural arch and rockery rather than viewing across the top.
...and you'll be in the Highlands.
I still remember the first time I walked through the woods just to the right of this shot, noticing how the line of new baby conifer trees was a pronounced sudden drop of a metre below the path.
This dip in the landscape follows the line of the Highland Boundary Fault up from Rohallion lodge behind me towards Dunkeld and Birnam.
Glacial morraine hillocks and the craggy foothills of Meall na Seide and the Corie nan Columan along the west side of Loch Turret.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015.
Full-on blue-hour with the sun a few degrees below the horizon.
The fuzzy blob just right of centre is M31, the Andromeda Galaxy.
Distant mountains - Ben Lawers and friends - from the B-road over the tops from Glen Quaich to above Kenmore.
Snow remaining on the tops of Ben Cruachan - a moderately long exposure at the head of Loch Etive at optimum sunset.
Also in colour.
And this appears on my shiny new website: pondering.photography.
I've been meaning to go check out the reflections in Loch Chon for a few years, having seen other folks' results. It was quite calm - didn't disappoint :)
An awesomely vibrant bright complete double rainbow - a primary and secondary bow and supernumaries.
Taken from the top of Duncryne Hill aka The Dumpling.
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...
Bleached snapped branches are no bad thing. In a healthy ecosystem about 40-60% of the wood is dead, decaying so its nutrients can be returned and new flora grow from the remains.
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Many years ago I made a photo of this bridge spanning the river mouth from the shores much closer in Inverness. Since then the road along the south of the river out of the city has become a favourite drive, with its easy straights, gentle bends and occasional views back to the Kessock Bridge in the distance.
Looking straight down the waterfall at Plodda Falls, river gushing in from the top.
Also in black and white
A favoured location - just outside Muthill south of Crieff, views all around Strathearn including one of my favourite trees.
Detail of some of the ruined castle walls - covered in moss and lichen, but still structure of stones and the occasional drain chute sticking out.
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