Category Archives: Landscape

The obligatory foreground rocks

From Sunday; I had the pleasure of actually setting up my tripod and 7D with 17-85 zoom on. I had the further fun of using my Cokin grad ND filters to cope with the relatively bright sunset sky. I use a little Infra-Red remote to trigger the shutter (£5 from ebay and utterly reliable) and...

Comment

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Rannoch Moor Lochan

One of the things that magazines regularly suggest we do to help our creativity is to revisit old images and to see whether we might choose differently or perhaps have a different approach to processing/retouching as we have become more experienced. I found this one from 2007 tonight taken with my first DSLR, a Canon...

Comment

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Power to the people

This is the view from Faifley, Clydebank this morning. There is an electrical substation with the usual tentacles of high tension charge snaking outwards. These particular tendrils are heading towards Glasgow which was nestled in this morning’s freezing mists. Handheld picture, snatched in 2 minutes with my 500D and 4omm f2.8 pancake lens. 1/80th sec...

Comment

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Paisley, Renfrew and Yoker from the Glennifer Braes

I accidentally found myself at the viewpoint carpark above Paisley at the dramatic edge of the Glennifer braes tonight just as it was turning dark. I confess that I had gone out to try and catch a nice view just to exercise my landscape skills, but I only had a short time and the route...

Comment

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Angel

I am fascinated by why we take pictures? The Angel of the North is probably fairly well photographed! Many photographers who have the kind of talent that means their photographs featuring regularly on magazine covers, will have nailed every angle and every kind of light; so why do any of us bother anymore? There are so...

Comment

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *