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Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow. It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone
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A view of Bow Fiddle Rock at Portknockie from the little beach in front of it. Not much of a beach and it's mostly shingle but a beach it is.
Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie. Taken at high tide on a fairly stormy day. Keeping the lens / filters dry was certainly a challenge!!
Set in the North East of Scotland, Bow Fiddle Rock is at Portknockie and is named due to its appearance. It was extremely windy but after shielding the camera, I managed to capture this long exposure.
Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow.
It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone.[ This rock is part of the Cullen Quartzite formation which is seen along the coast between Buckie and Cullen. The formation is some 2,400m thick and dates from the Neoproterozoic Era, 1,000 to 539 million years ago.
These rocks were folded when the ancient continents of Laurentia and Avalonia collided during the Caledonian orogeny. They later became exposed at the surface where sea and weather eroded the structure seen today.
The rock formation is both a tourist attraction and nesting place for sea birds including herring gulls, great black-backed gulls and lesser black-backed gulls.
Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie.
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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
playing a little with Nik Collection. My own personal extreme of both HDR and long exposure, the image was processed in HDR Efex Pro 2 with one RAW image – largely as an experiment.
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I'm starting to really enjoy this light painting stuff, it's great fun!! And I know my violin only has 3 strings, but please be nice, she's very sensitive about it. :-)
I had to clone out some dust spots from this (so annoying!), but apart from that it's unaltered from the camera shot.
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The A537, Cat & Fiddle road. It used to be dubbed the most dangerous road in Britain, but average speed cameras have killed off that claim. The traffic calming measures have encouraged swarms of lycra clad cyclists with go-pros on their helmets to crowd the roads and make them more dangerous than ever. From up on Shining Tor, it's a great view out to the South and West and up to the city of Manchester. But what used to be a favourite drive up to the Cat & Fiddle pub is little more than a boring and tedious journey now, negotiating bend after bend with eyes firmly locked onto your speedo.
No, it's not me. It's a guy called Steve Herbert who happened to be enjoying the view when I disturbed the peace.
(This is the way it used to be www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91nryggPB0 )
although this is more like it ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNXCJt7K3Q
A lunchtime stroll along the Meadows and up to the Underbelly. Watched a fiddler for a wee while and generally had a nice wee wander round.
Stopped by here on the way back form Aberdeen yesterday and glad I did, there's a lot to see in Portknockie if you like beaches and rocks. The arch shaped rock formation is Bow Fiddle Rock, part of the Caledonian Fold Belt.
It was apparently formed by wave action wearing away the different layers of rock.
Shot in the middle of the day with my Xmas present, a B&W ND 1000 and a 0.9 ND Grad.