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blog: Leaping salmon at Buchanty Spout
I'd been at the spout for a wee while when this guy appeared, armed with a 40D. We had a good gab, discussing best positions, best set-ups, etc. He was shooting at f/11, while I was down at f/6.4 or f/7.1 most of the time.
This is also probably the best shot for displaying the whole spout. You can see the first, big fall which a fish is trying to leap over, while ahead of it is the turbulent pool before another waterfall. It's amazing that any fish can get past this at all, but I occasionally saw salmon clear the first jump and them do a mad tail-wagging push against the current before disappearing out of sight under the foam. Didn't see a successful leap over the second lot of falls though, even after a couple of hours. No wonder salmon attrition rates are so high.
blog: Bikers and the Falkirk Wheel
This is the bike photographer from www.power-images.co.uk/ who was loitering round the hairpin at the same time I was. I presume that when he switched from the outside of the corner to the more desirable inside position, he wasn't doing it just to rub my nose in it. Doity swine.
Anyhoo, I thought I'd try a "shoot the shooter"-style photo, and this was one of my first efforts. Unfortunately the man himself is a little blurry (I was shooting handheld at 1/50th to get blurry bikes) , but I've uploaded it anyway despite its flaws ~ the passing bikes were brilliant, nothing else came close in thirty-odd attempts to better this.
Matthew grabbed a shot of me taking a snap of guitar bodies at the PRS Factory is Stevensville Maryland.