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Still experimenting with drone photography this image is a frame extract from footage of Silvers Sands beach, near Aberdour in Fife, looking south west to the bridges. The drone camera is not a patch on my usual Canon 5D but then I wouldn’t go putting my DSLR on a rig and sending it 100m up and a kilometre out to sea.
Elie lighthouse or Elie Ness lighthouse was first switched on in 1908 on what was locally known as fish rock.
There is nothing quite like the feeling of standing on a beautiful stretch of the beach in the calm serenity of morning watching entranced by the magnificence of nature’s light show. The slow, steady and inevitable movement of the sun as it pours through the point on the horizon and gradually pulls itself into shape as the warm and life giving ball of light that we are all so familiar with.
I stand there and my mind drifts off to think about the physics that go into making that shot. It’s all very strange to think that the photons that are hitting my camera sensor left the surface of the sun eight minutes and ten seconds earlier and in fact the giant ball of gas is already high in the sky but we just can’t see it yet. The life of those photons actually started deep inside the sun and they have been beavering their way to the surface since before any humans walked the earth. A photon is created as a bi-product of the fusion reactions going on inside the core of the sun when Hydrogen is fused into Helium. The photon then spends anything from 50,000 to 500,000 years being bounced around in the solar soup of Hydrogen and Helium trying to avoid being re-absorbed and make it the 700,000 kilometres to the surface and freedom. For every single photo that escapes there were countless trillions that were pulled back into a hydrogen nucleus and made to start again.
So next time you are standing there enjoying the spectacle that is a beautiful sunrise think about the time and energy that went into make it all happen and then realise that the little effort you need to put in to getting through the day is a drop in the ocean in comparison the poor photon that we all take so for granted.
For Blue Passacaglia. We showed this view to B last Friday, but the weather was horrible and rainy and photographic conditions were grey and flat. This is what it looks like in slightly nicer weather. The double island in the Firth of Forth (linked by a causeway) , is Inchcolm Island with it's historic Abbey!
The spring weather is bringing in the warmer temperatures and with it we get delightfully misty mornings. Before the sun has made it high enough to warm the land the cold air passed onto the water creating a floating blanket of fog. I would normally be looking for the rich colours of the sunrise appearing over the horizon but there are times when the silver lining turns out to be a beautiful cloud smothering the landscape and glowing with just the hint of the blue sky hidden above.
I had a good day of shooting recently on the coast of Fife near Elie. Well, good up to a point.
I particularly like shooting Lady’s Tower as a subject but there is also the lighthouse and quite a lot of nice beaches and rock formations. This is obviously a photograph of some of those rocks and the wash of what was quite a strong swell.
If you follow my stream you may have read about the tsunami that soaked me and my kit that day and this shot was about half an hour after that washout. I’d rung myself out, my kit was wiped down and continued to work perfectly but I can’t say the operator was still in the best of conditions. Saying that, you can’t just give up because of a bit of water. You need to show some perseverance in this game if you going to get that winning shot.
Looking over the gorse in full bloom across Inverkeithing Bay to the Forth Rail Bridge with Port Laing and East Ness piers in the foreground.
It never ceases to amaze me the myriad different shapes clouds can take. Why this oval blue patch existed in an otherwise cloudy sky I'll never know, but I'm thankful to have seen it!
P.S. I now know that this is a meteorolgical phenomenum called a Fallstreak Hole and is caused by super-cooled ice-crystals nucleating and falling out of the sky!
Grey Heron illuminated by the morning winter sun coming under the arches of the new bridge at Guardbridge, Fife (Scotland).
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According to that poet fellow John Keats, Autumn is the 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.' Huh! Its well into Autumn and we live on the Scottish coast, also famed for its haar (or sea-mists). Well, where are the mists this year? This is an archive shot from 2009. it has been so mild this year and weather has been atypical. We are going to a German Christmas Market at Mannheim and forecast is for misty weather? I hope so! :0) BEST VIEWED ON BLACK!
Part of a set all taken at Seafield Beach in Kirkcaldy, Fife. After a weekend of terrible weather the clouds broke at about 4pm on Sunday evening. The wind was still strong, so camera shake was a problem. These are the best of about 90 shots taken.
This subject is not very original and this is certainly not the best image ever taken of it but I thought I’d try something a little different tonight. There are many images of the pier taken at or around sunset, it runs south west so it does align quite well at the right time of the year. There are many daytime shots using ND filters to smooth out the water and the clouds. I have a few of those shots myself.
This time I decided to try and shoot the pier in darkness and use artificial lighting to see if I could get a different type of image. The foreground rocks were lit using a head torch with about 3 seconds of exposure. The waves approaching the shore got about 10 seconds and the pier got the remainder of 30 seconds. The pier was also being lit by security lights from the nearby buildings which gave it a very orange tone. The glow in the sky is from the lights of Edinburgh in the distance and the starburst to the right is not the setting sun but the lights on a docked ship.
Lazy photography out of our living-room window.
Made Explore on 28th January 2012.
The photo was published in our local newspaper, the Fife Free Press, on 26th April 2012. I hadn't noticed it but Facebook friends told me it was there.
Cormorants on The Fife Coastal Path looking over to the Isle of May on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
Crail and Crail Harbour in the East Neuk of Fife looking towards Fife Ness at sunset.
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Some beautiful Allium? growing wild on the Fife Coastal Path. The whale-like shape seen on the horizon is the May Island Nature Sanctuary.
Photo taken with the camera pressed against my hallway window, so it didn't turn out too badly considering!
Made Explore #236 0n 26 Feb 2009.
I started to convert a colour shot to a lith-print effect in Photoshop Elements, but I didn't like the effect that was coming out. I eventually back-tracked a couple of steps and left it as a sepia finish, which I much preferred. This is the 17th Century St Serf's Tower in Dysart, one of only two remaining Scottish church towers that have gun-loops for firing small cannons.
I think this is best viewed on black (by double-clicking on it).
Another image taken in the Seafield area of Kirkcaldy. A simple shot of the waves moving around in a little basin formed by the rock structures. It all looks very serene now but I got soaked by the waves splashing up the face. More waterproofs, and less of me moaning, next time. ;-)
Weymss castle is in Fife near the town of Coaltown of Weymss and is still lived in by the Weymss family. This was taken from the coastal path between West Weymss and East Weymss
The Fife Coastal Path runs from the Forth Estuary in the south, to the Tay Estuary in the north and stretches for 117 miles. The path is clearly waymarked and offers a range of walking experiences from the easy and level, to the wild and demanding. Whether done in bite sized chunks or as a long distance route there is definitely something for everyone.
An archive shot from December 2012. The cormorant at the end of the pier was just about to launch itself over the water. This was the most vivid sunset we have had on the Fife coast within the last seven years.
Sunrise at Lady's Tower.
Glorious morning at Elie in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. Waves of mist and sea fog kept on rolling through. Clear one minute, haze the next before thick fog would surround you for a minute or two,
Lady's Tower or Lady Janet Anstruther's Tower to give it it's sunday name was rumoured to be built to allow her to get changed before she went swimming.