Category Archives: Sigma 10-20

Whitelees Windfarm

Whitelees windfarm with 140 turbines, is the largest in Europe. This turbine is 110 metres high when the tip is at its highest point. This picture is from below where the noise in a steady wind was impressive, but 2 minutes walk away, inaudible. Sigma 10-20 is good for this kind of thing even though...

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Inside a building 2

I managed to get some time yesterday in the Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow. This is an amazing, classical building on a grand scale. Photographically the challenge is that the pictures have to be handheld as it is a busy museum and a tripod is considered a trip hazard for visitors. The light is low except...

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For Dear Life

I have decided to have a go at photographing a tree for round one of a photographic magazine’s contest. Truthfully I have always commented on how hard I think trees are to photograph. Getting good contrast between green and brown trees and green and brown backgrounds can be challenging. I have had a few successes,...

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Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse

Taken two weeks ago as a handheld HDR while on a walk to the Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse. It is an amazing walk to the lighthouse, (visible on the right of the coastline), descending from the car park through 1000 feet, (300m), only to have you walk back up again. The vague coastline in the...

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The Falkirk Wheel

Last weekend I finally visited the Falkirk Wheel. This amazing and unique structure uses clever engineering and counterbalancing to lift barges between the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals. It is so well constructed it achieves this amazing feat using the kind of energy that you or I use to boil a kettle. Since each...

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