These are my friends Dick Edie and Jim Hulme. Two Lightroom exposures combined to cope with the huge dusk-dynamic range. (Trusty sigma 28mm) This is the mouth of Loch Sween where my friend and colleague Dick Edie lives. Dick and I share a love of photography and we both use Flickr. Truth be told, I’m...
OK, I know the picture of the Trotternish Ridge and the Storr on Skye is a bit of a cliché, but who can resist. It was a bit grey and overcast, so increase contrast and black and white conversion focuses on what matters in this ridge; the prehistoric, folded landscape. For those who are interested,...
Raining again all day, so I went to Glasgow instead. This is the view from the roof of the Buchanan Galleries car park. They have surrounded the roof with a high screen so that you need to use “live view” and hold the camera above the screen. I haven’t seen a nice sunset here for...
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...
Sorry for the week long absence of posts. I was attending (in fact speaking at!) an amazing conference in Toronto. I didn’t have much time for photography at all but I grabbed a few while my host was showing me around the city and taking me up the amazing CN Tower. If you read my...
Glad you enjoyed your trip over. The pictures of me are grim as I get more ba’ faced every time I see a shot but we can’t blame the photographer for that.
You have the wrong boat as the puffer (VIC) it was:
Oops I see you don’t allow images in comment. Check out my photo stream to see the puffer.
Wow, looks like you all had a superb w/e. Can I ask if the ‘puffer’ was the one used in ‘Para Handy’? I seem to remember that it was berthed at the Crinan Canal at one time…
Hi Lorr, that one was the “vital spark” I think. Either it or a replica is lying at Inveraray at present.
It seems that they name just about every puffer as the Vital Spark at some time. I think the one used in the filming of para Handy is lying in Crinan Boatyard being toffed up at present. It was in a very sorry state indeed – but then so was the original Vital Spark supposed to be.