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A classic view - the strong angular shape of Bow Fiddle with rock-pools in the foreground, Portknockie.
Seven shots with 85mm vertical. Needed two more to achieve a 3:1 format but this is all the room the setting gave me. A wide angle image just didn’t do it justice.
Uploaded this from my old computer hoping to fiddle with it in lightroom but forgot to set it to private so now it's "Out there" ...never mind :)
Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie at sunset.
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New ferns emerging in the garden.
In the woods at this time of year you see them amongst the Bluebells - so I wrote a poem.
I set sail on a honey scented sea of blue
to rest a while, what's that! here they come
uprooted, grabbing me by the hand to sing
and dance with this band of fiddle heads.
The Oak disapproves not the Beech, it rejoices,
I'm scolded by the Wren and I'm back where I started.
Sorry my friend I was lost in thought!
Portknockie (Scottish Gaelic: Port Chnocaidh, the hilly port) is a coastal village on the Moray Firth within Moray, Scotland.
The village's name is written as Portknockies in the Old Parish Registers. This would suggest that the port's name referred to not one, but two rocky hills at the hythe - the Port Hill and the Greencastle. Nearby towns include Banff, Buckie, Findochty and Cullen.
The village was founded in 1677 and it became a significant herring fishing port during the nineteenth century, although today only a handful of commercial inshore boats remain.
The town was on the railway network, until Portknockie station closed in 1968.
A popular site in Portknockie is Bow Fiddle Rock, a large rock about 50 feet high just off the coast. The quartzite structure has a large sea arch, which somewhat resembles the bow of a fiddle.
Small numbers of seabirds nest on the coastal cliffs. These include fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, common gull, razorbill and shag. Additionally common eider can be seen in and around the harbour and coves during the summer months.
Bow Fiddle Rocks, Portknockie, Moray Coast, Scotland
XE2 samyang 12mm @F2 iso 1600 25sec exp
full moon and light painting
Bow Fiddle Rock is a large sea arch of quartzite rock about 50 feet high just off the coast at Portknockie (Port Chnocaidh, the hilly port) . The quartzite rock has a large sea arch, which somewhat resembles the bow of a fiddle.
This work by Rhonda Surman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
© Rhonda Surman 2011
Hey this isn't the best quality photo ever - partly due to the fact that I didn't have time to set up - I just heard the scream of this little stroker and turned the camera on for a quick snap. I think its fairly sharp - I can read the lettering - its just grainy.
I like it, though, because it just sums up what my late teens was like.
Firstly, when I had a pedal bike I used to dream of getting a motorcycle - so I used to watch any that went by - a bit like this lad who had obviously pedalled hard to get to this point - as it is a hard slog from either the Buxton or Macclesfield ends of the Cat and Fiddle.
Secondly, my first motorcycle was a small capacity two stroke with a Learner's "L Plate" on - with drum brakes on the front and back.
The lad on the Yamaha then did a couple of fly pasts of the (now closed and abandoned, sadly) Cat and Fiddle pub - a bit like I used to do.
Jeans and desert boots - snap.
Memories.
I hope the lad on the Yamaha has as much fun on bikes as I have over the last 40 years or so.
That little Yamaha is over 25 years old now, so it is nice to see that it is still running well - it sounded great. No front mudguard though - oops - plus those front forks must be a bit floppy with no bracing. No indicators either. I think it’s probably fair to say that back in the day plenty of kids used to take a liberal interpretation of what was and wasn’t needed to comply with this that and the other.
Lovers of this kind of thing might like to take a peek at two of my Flickr albums:-
Two Strokes
and
davekpcv's Yamaha set
This 1980s Paul Galdone illustration of a very happy cat playing with a butterfly just makes me smile.
Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee.
Written and illustrated by Paul Galdone
Clarion Books; 1985
The sun rises behind Bow Fiddle Rock off the north Coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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February 2021
Camera: Olympus Ace 35mm Rangefinder.
Lens: Olympus 4.5cm E. Zuiko f/2.8.
Film: Ilford Pan F Plus ISO 50 35mm black & white negative.
Development: ID-11 1 + 3 20C/16m.
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Bow Fiddle Rock is a place I have wanted to visit for years and this June we had the opportunity while on holiday in Scotland on the black Isle and I must say it didn’t disappoint the light was a bit flat so I decided to use my infrared Pen-f to make this panorama. 4 shots merged in Lightroom and edited in Silver Efex Pro. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
The Bow Fiddle Rock is so called because it resembles the very tip of a bow. It was formed by erosion of a rock called Cullen Quartzite. This is one of many different quartzites found in Scotland. The quartzite is about 2500 metres (8000 feet) thick and makes up the coastline from Buckpool (the west end of Buckie) to Logie Head, the main headland east of Cullen.
Quartzite is a metamorphic rock, which means that it has been altered in nature by heat or by pressure. It was originally sandstone laid down in layers under the sea around 750 million years ago. More and more sediment piled up on top until the sandstone was buried several kilometres down, and as the pressure from overlying rocks built up, and heat from the centre of the Earth rose into the crust, the grains of silica in the sandstone were crushed and welded together to form the much harder rock called quartzite.
Over millions of years the overlying rocks were eroded away again, and the Cullen Quartzite became exposed at the surface, where the sea and the weather began to attack weaker spots in the rock and carve out the arch we see today. The sloping layers can be traced on to the land from which you first see the Rock. From further east along the clifftop, you get a completely different view, where you can see that the Rock is a long sloping slab of rock.