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My posts containing photos I’ve taken in Scotland.

This is the most fun you can have with a tomato, a camera and a bowl of water.

Splash Photography

Posted: June 25th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

Single Canon Speedlite 430EX II Flash Unit at camera right with Rose Purple gel from the Honl Hollywood filter kit and a Honl 1/8 Speed Grid… not perfect, but good fun for a first try!

Choo-Choo - Exposure: 1/400 • Aperture: f/5.6 • Focal Length: 18 mm • ISO: 100

Converging (railway) lines

Posted: June 21st, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

Railway lines are probably the most common/classic type of photo to take advantage of a scene with converging lines. I had a chance to take one of these shots on the way back from some local woodland. It’s a simple shot taken with a 10-20mm wide-angle lens at …
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Bedroom window photography

Posted: June 20th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

A misleading title, perhaps? – not really. If you’re willing to sit at your bedroom window for long enough (trying not to look like a pervert with a camera) you can grab hold of some pretty interesting photo opportunities. Well, actually, that depends on how much you like …
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Just past half way up Ben Nevis

A day on Ben Nevis

Posted: June 15th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

This week we decided to take a trip up Britain’s highest mountain. We took the “Pony Track” route up the mountain, which although a bit of trudge, offers some fantastic views of Glen Nevis as you start to ascend past the Half Way Lochan. The thought of hauling …
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Yes, I was trespassing on the railway :) - The way I see it

Trespassing on the railway

Posted: May 31st, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

One of the things in photography I struggle with most is black and white… I don’t have a problem with it, I just struggle to find the most appropriate images to convert. Here is the thought process holding me back a lot of the time with landscapes and …
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