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Water, rocks and trees: these are a few of my favourite things.
The river runs for a few miles out of Wester Camghouran into the Rannoch Forest uplands; the gorge accompanies the path for an impressively long stretch of waterfalls and cascades.
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My wife and I rarely get a day off with the kids in school, if possible a bushwalk together (free of moaning kids!) is always something welcome. As I work towards my first book I am still scouting possible locations, worthy walks that might make the cut. On this occasion I don’t think Little Zig Zag will make an appearance but I am very happy with a couple of the shots I managed to grab and should eventually make their way to the Print shop.
All images shot with the Pentax K-1 and the vintage 1960’s Takumar 50/1.4 eight element (which is very much the subject of the forthcoming book).
This particular shot was pixelshifted, it's worth zooming in.
I'm not entirely sure the ancient superstition worked. The rowan tree remains but the croft-house at whose corner it stands is long decayed into little more than a couple perpendicular lines of stones returning to the bog.
Subtle tones and contrasts: bright pale green tree-beard lichen and moss covering the rowan tree, tall conifers just behind and other trees fading into the rain in the distance.
Prints and things are available from the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Keeping-the-Witch-Away-000f6e5...
For a wider perspective on the forest clearing: www.flickr.com/photos/spodzone/48797551158/
Very subtle light illuminating beech leaves starting to turn autumnal orange above a small waterfall in the river, Gleann nan Eildeag (just off Glen Lyon).
Shy female Rose-breasted Grosbeak after a brief visit to my feeder.
Common migrant and summer resident. Generally, arrives in late April. She was alone. Males are brightly colored. She almost slipped by due to her superb camouflaged coloring.
The first rays of sunrise hit the twisted overgrown row of beech trees lining the Bregagh road in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This is a spectacular tree lined road, known as the "Dark Hedges", but sadly it won't last forever as the trees are said to have lasted longer than their usual lifespan and are now in decay and under threat from traffic and weather events. In 2016, a storm destroyed or damaged 3 of them. There are about 90 remaining of the 150 originally planted in 1775 by the owner of the estate to which the road leads. The location was made famous in an episode of the TV series Game of Thrones, and now dozens of tour buses visit every day. Reading about these trees was a Stark (GoT pun there for any fans) reminder to me that a surprising number of the great landscape features I photograph are vulnerable and may not exist in their current form for so much longer. Sometimes it's because of the pressure mankind puts on our fragile ecosystems, but quite often it's just the ever-changing nature of this incredible planet, we bear witness to those changes even in our short lifetimes.
I was happy to have another visit to Ireland during a recent trip to Europe and I arranged an extra evening and morning to drive from Dublin up to the Antrim coast. It was my first time braving the mysteries of right hand drive cars, and I am happy to report that I managed it without "pranging" my rental car. I found the Dark Hedges first in the late afternoon, but the road was mobbed with people, there were even a number of vehicles parked visibly within the frame which is a shame, and I could see that it would set up better for an early morning picture where hopefully there wouldn't be so many tourists around. I drove from there to the Giants Causeway (an amazing feature I've posted before) but sunset was a bust. Coming back to the Dark Hedges in the early morning was the right thing to do, there was only one small group of photographers there and so I was able to squeeze my tripod in among them and wait for the sun to come up. The road is a treat to photograph at any time, in any season. It would of course be beautifully enhanced by a little Irish mist but no matter, I was really surprised and pleased to see the orange/red glow effect of the morning sun as the rim of the sun peeked over the nearest ridge. It lasts only a precious minute or two before the glow fades to a nice warm yellow light among the beeches. Happy Hedging!
Hasselblad 501CM
Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/100 T* CFi
f16
1/2 second
Gitzo GT3532LS
Arca-Swiss Z1
Kodak Ektachrome E100
Lab development
Digitised using 16-shot pixel-shift capture with a 99 CRI light source and an IT8-calibrated custom profile.
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Thought I'd give pixelshift a go, I've owned the A7rIV for a year and never used it. Well it works, 203megapixel image after some 16x9 cropping, not sure I see the benefit though honestly
It is scenes like this that keep us all coming back for more. It had been a few months since our last road trip and Kevin Benedict and I were starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms, which can include obsessively starting at each sunrise and sunset and muttering, forming "picture frame" hands around random things, envious perusal of other peoples' flickr streams, and constantly observing to spouse how great Iceland would be at this time of year.
We met up in Salt Lake City for a quick trip around Utah (in a Volkswagen Tiguan so cheaply made that I managed to yank the door handle straight off, but I digress). One of our stops was in Moab UT for visits to Canyonlands and Arches. We had a hard time finding accommodation because it turned out there is an annual car show in Moab and this was the weekend for it. It did make for some very entertaining and unusual sights on the street. I have to say that Moab seems like the new Austin to me, now that Austin has become so grown-up and touristy, it's not so "weird" any more. Moab is much smaller of course, but manages to capture much of the authentic individualist weirdness that Austin used to be known for. That's a good thing. Keep on weirding on Moab.
This is the well-known and frequently shot Green River Overlook. Of course, it's frequently shot for a good reason, because it is damned majestic and highly photogenic, and just a general pleasure to look at. A storm chased us up to the overlook and caught a few hints of interesting light at sunset before shutting it down altogether. I've not even been home for two weeks and I'm already trying to figure out the next outing. More to come from this trip.
Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada really lives up to its name here. This is the "Fire wave" feature, lit above with some really interesting sunset light on low hanging clouds. I really had some exceptional luck on my visit to Las Vegas in late March, not at the card tables, mind you, but out in the field, which counts way more in my books. Valley of Fire is only an hour drive from Las Vegas so its pretty easy to get there for a sunset shot of the famous Fire Wave and then head back to town. Absolutely one of my favorite places to visit in the Vegas area, it never fails to put a smile on my face.
As I drove in, the clouds were really menacing and dramatic looking. So I was excited about the prospect of some interesting cloudy shots, but I did not expect sunset to amount to anything because there was just too much cloud. However, for a brief few minutes the sun found a crack and lit up the clouds in little pockets. There are always people shooting the fire wave at sunset, and today they were all lined up in one particular spot hoping for the fire wave to catch the sun. However, I could tell it would not but once I saw the clouds catching some color I scrabbled all around the fire wave trying to find an interesting angle with the color. It was one of those times where one has to keep an open mind and adapt to the conditions to get a usable shot. Planning is important (and I don't typically do enough of it), but I also find it is extremely important to let Mother Nature's plans have the final say.
Shot with Pentax K-1 and Pentax 24-70mm using Pixel Shift.
[EDIT] Originally I shot this in a vertical format and displayed as 8x10 with a lot of the fiery sky in the photo, but I found the wonderful lines in the fire wave were getting lost under so much sky so I recropped in square format to bring some focus back to the rock and am more satisfied with this.
It was too good an opportunity to miss: with covid restrictions suggested keeping within Perthshire, but weather forecast suggesting oodles of thick fog around the time of sunrise around Rannoch, I just had to get up and go.
For once, the weather didn't disappoint. The fog was indeed thick, the sunlight came with a first flush of red to the east and pink to the west, then faded obscured by mist, returning golden around sunrise itself.
The low cloud was so thick and consistent I never even saw the favoured mountain, Schiehallion, all morning; but the views across the loch to the trees on the opposite shore were awesomely atmospheric.
My first Pixel Shift photo upload taken at Gloucester Cathedral yesterday (these are the original lavatories,) While taking the exposure a young lady entered the old cloister toilets, stood there for a couple of seconds then left, she's barely visible in the background, her face is just to the lower right handside of the far end wall window.
Manfrotto Tripod, Pentax Remote, Lens = Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART, edited in Snapseed on iPad Pro.
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After 500 million to a billion years, this fast flowing river (the Allt Camghouran) eroding them is just the latest thing to happen to these psammite metamorphic rocks.
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Tried out my camera’s pixel shift mode. This is four photos taken is quick succession with the camera shifting left right etc. to make an uber detailed stitched image. I thought I’d try it as a way to get a long exposure. Not bad but if you look at the clouds you’ll see it came out a bit pixelated.
PENTAX K-1 • FF Pixel Shift Mode • 100 ISO • Irix Blackstone 15mm F2.4
Rollei Astroklar clear-night filter
Long exposure: 30 sec
Rotterdam • Nederland
A classic view - soft heather and bracken leading past Loch Affric to the mountains beyond (Kintail / Glen Sheil in the very far distance).
I had befriended a fellow photographer down at the glen earlier; the first I knew that they had followed me a few minutes later up to this Am Meallan viewpoint was the word "WOW!" exclaimed a few feet behind me.
I don't really have much profound to say today, so I'll keep this update short and sweet. From another visit to Point Reyes earlier this year. I drove out there with the intention to shoot the cypress tunnel, or possibly the lighthouse at sunset, however, the light was uninteresting in the cypress tunnel this time, and the nice sunset light didn't align at all with the lighthouse, so I decided to drive to one of the little beaches close to the lighthouse. As I was driving up the beach entrance road I noticed this driftwood log that had been thrown up on the extensive ice plants that cover much of the northern california coastline. Although they are invasive plants, they *are* quite pretty especially when they turn red. With the interesting sunset light developing amid the surrounding storm clouds, and the driftwood and the ice plant, I decided there was a keeper here. Nothing epic, just some sweet colors and textures. Thanks for looking! Looking forward to shooting some fall colors soon!