Today in Renfrewshire there was a lovely mist after the rain went away. There was a layered “shades of mistiness” effect that I couldn’t resist. I haven’t felt like stopping by roadsides recently due to lots of large and upsetting changes in my life, but I’m glad that the desire to do so here was...
I almost love this picture, but I’m afraid it falls short. Compositionally, the woman walking her dog is in the wrong spot. If I had pressed the shutter when she was nearer to the left and filling the empty space this would have been a stronger picture. It’s good to reflect on these things and...
The best magic in photography seems so often to come from the unexpected. After watching the magnificent end-of-festival fireworks from Edinburgh’s Calton Hill, the folly suddenly struck me as looking fantastic (in the literal sense of the word) and so I quickly retrieved the beloved 40D and had a go. My “standard” 17-85 IS was...
Arran and the Cumbraes from the Haylie Brae above Largs I have bought a new camera! Everyone I know has said to me ” how can you possibly need another camera”? My photographic friend Shirley understood perfectly well when I told her. She said in a burst of great wisdom, you can’t have too many...
A post that does what it says on the tin: From the sailing club pontoon on Loch Leven looking east to the Pap of Glencoe with its little bonnet of cloud on the right. The view over the Black Mount area from one of the roadside lochans on the Rannoch Moor. Anyone who has walked...
I’m really sorry to hear that things are not good for you atm, Matthew. Hope you get some rays of sunshine despite the rain. Take care.
This is lovely Matthew, it reminds me of the view coming in to Huntly Aberdeenshire on some mornings, but imagine it all in an inky blue watercolour effect to get what it looked like…magical. I wished I’d been a photographer then and I too would have stopped the car and grabbed a shot.
Sorry things are not so great for you lately, into every life some rain must fall and all that. Julie x