This may seem an odd subject to make a fuss about, but my experience has been that it causes more hassle and stress than any other aspect of learning photography. Ask yourself, “how many times have I left my DSLR at home because I didn’t want to carry it”? It is often said that the...
Day 5 had us climbing steeply up to about 300 metres with occasional views back along Loch Ness. This was my favourite landscape of the whole walk and it needed my 70-300mm lens to pick it out. The path has a lot of forestry and it is difficult to get a clear, unobstructed view, but...
Day 3 starts from Laggan Locks and takes the path by Loch Oich. This is reckoned by some to be the most visually pleasant part of the walk. The light was really flat this day and so this picture doesn’t do justice. A railway line used to run here, but it never quite connected Fort...
Sorry about the thin posting since my session with Sarah Jane and Paul. It’s just as well I did that when I did as I was away all the following week walking the Great Glen Way between Fort William and Inverness (73 miles) and the day I was travelling back Sarah Jane delivered! The way...
Today was one of those days working in Argyll when you pretty much drive all day. I was visiting the Isle of Mull with a colleague and working to a tight schedule and so stopping to take photographs was difficult. We stopped briefly in a layby and I snatched this handheld landscape. The East end...
I’ve just bought a Tamron 18-270mm and I’m really pleased with it. The image stabilisation almost totally does away with the tripod and is much better than the IS I had on by two canon lenses.