The Iconic tree on Rannoch Moor looking on to Black mount
A shot from a little loch deep in Glen Etive
Continuing my series World from Above with a view of the medieval Kisimul Castle which lies on a rock in Castlebay on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra. Historic Scotland site Taken just before landing at the island’s beach airport. At the start of my 2007 tour of the Outer Hebrides, we left cloudy Glasgow to fly to sunny Barra on the only scheduled flight in the world to land on a beach with the timetable dictated by the tides! I can highly recommend this amazing trip in a Twin Otter prop plane seating just 15 passengers, and the first officer doubling up as steward! “If it had been clear leaving Glasgow, we would have taken the scenic route a wee bit lower over the Sound of Mull…,” apologised the pilot. He made up for it by doing a circle of Barra before landing. Please enlarge to appreciate the light, etc. better. Featured in Highland and Island Photographers Lovers of the Isles may like my calendar Outer Hebridean Coastlines. Calendars with aerial views – The World from Above – Nature’s Wonders and The World from Above – Landscapes
This wild stag was photographed in Glen Etive, Scotland, in early spring. He was an impressive beast with huge antlers and a healthy hareem of lady friends! The Scottish Highlands.
Stormy Wick harbour entrance, Wick, Caithness, Scotland Featured in Highlands & Islands Photographers / Featured in Beauty of European Waters / Featured in Going Coastal
Captured freehand in the Blackhouse Museum at Arnol, Isle of Lewis. Smoke from the peat fire in the centre of the main room is caught in the light from the only window. Historic Scotland site The museum is well worth a visit to get insights of what life was like in this typical old stone house. The so-called blackhouses did not have a chimney but the peat smoke rose up through the thatched roof. This had the added advantage of keeping the roof from rotting or rain from coming through. This is my homage to the generations of islanders who lived in these houses. Addtional information from Ranald: “The tar from the peat smoke made everything inside black, hence the name. The beasts were often kept at one end of the house, where the floor sloped down. The heat rising off them kept the smoke away. A very clever system.” Nikon D1X, Nikon 18-70 F3.5-4.5G. F3/8, 1/10s, 24mm, ISO 125. / Location: Arnol, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. / I’ve got this framed in large-format in my hallway. Topped 500 Views on 30th October 2009. 540 a week later:-) Featured in / Featured Features / Contrasting Perceptions / Nikon DSLR Users Group / Scotlands History / Rural Around the Globe / Highlands and Islands Photographers Lovers of the Isles may like my calendar Outer Hebridean Coastlines
16th October 2009 0822hrs / One of a series of shots of Loch Morlich in the Cairngorm National Park in Scotland taken at different times on different days…my magic place for the moods / Sony Alpha 350 DSLR 18-70 lens Single RAW tonemapped in Photomatix
What a difficult day for photographs. Blue sky, haze in the air and I’m beside one of Scotland’s most iconic castles!. Oh well, this is the best I could do straight into the sun. I also wanted to capture the reflection of the tree on the island in the water, which is why I used this particular angle. Canon 450D 3 exposures for HDR processing 47 16 30 N 5 30 39 W
Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie. Camera: Nikon D300 / Lens: Nikon 17-55mm, f2.8
Faraid Head, Sutherland in Scotland. This photo was taken 10 minutes or so after this: after the squall had passed (with great ferocity and velocity!), leaving this rainbow behind me.
sundown over a frosty glen affric /
The waterfall at the head of “Allt Coire Mhic Fhearchair” (Gaelic for the “Stream of the Corrie of the son of Farqhuar”) / with Ruadh-stac Mor, (1010 metres) the highest peak of the Beinn Eighe group in the Torridon mountains of NW Scotland. / It looks so gentle, but is not as easy as it seems.I think this is my favourite walk in Scotland. / Sony Alpha 350 DSLR HDR 3 shots autobracketed and tonemapped in Photomatix.18-70 lens / Featured in Happy Haven.. & The Great Outdoors Sept 2009 and Highlands & Islands Photographers October 2009 /
Highlands, Scotland / / Conan Doyle’s Fairies. Let us begin / When we’re caught on a whim / That remembers us / Moving through air / With open, young faces bare / To watch us go Changes as light / Hit within our soft sight / The feeling of / moving through air with / loving compare sad / voices beware / Before we’re smiling High as our senses falling feel / With method to our sadness / Amongst ourselves / We hit the ground below And dying we wonder / That light from our hunger / Will follow our humours long stunned / We’ve moved to a place / No longer in moods / To chase / The luck we had when young Still all that we offer / We cannot command / The world at our fingertips / The sky in our hand. Ken Simm
Sumburgh head (Shetland), sandwiched between the cloud and sea.
Old Man of Storr. skye, Hebrides, Scotland / /
A view from the southern shores of Islay over to mainland Scotland. A beautiful day at the beginning of June. I had to stop and capture this shot with the sheep, ferns and boat in the background. And of course that tree that has met the winds and weather of time. Nikon D200, Sigma 18-200mm. / Location: Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Music by Capercaillie, The Tree Another tree, another place, another time: /
Shot 20 mins. after sundown in the afterglow. / Taken from Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland looking to the West. Nikon D80 / Manual / 5sec. at f14 / Exposure compensation +1 step / ISO 100 / Nikon 18.0-70.0mm f/3.5-4.5 at 24mm / Hitech 0.9 ND soft Grad. / Manfrotto 190XPROB / 804RC2 head / Cable release
Skye, Hebrides, Scotland. / /
Mcintosh Ross @ Inverness Ironworks 4 Nov 2009 Nikon D40 / Tamron 70 – 300 Deacon Blue members, Ricky and Lorraine, on their solo tour of the UK
Taken around 7.30 a.m. on late May morning on my first trip to the Outer Hebrides. I got up before dawn to take photos at the standing stones of Calanais. The early morning light was wonderful and I seemed to have the Hebridean island completely to myself, so I continued up the coast for a couple of other stops including Dalmore Beach. Back to the B&B very hungry my full Scottish breakfast:-) Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70mm. 33 mm; f/3/8, 1/1250s (I’ve learnt a lot since then and would not chose those settings now…) / Post-pro in CS4 with Nik ColorEfex. Location: Traigh Dal Mor, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK Available in Calendar Outer Hebrides Coastlines /
another interior of the Italian prisoners selfmade chapel.
the small chapel on the island of Lamb Holm on Orkney, built by Italian prisoners of war in WW2.
For bird watching in the area in the Black Isle in Scotland. Canon 350D
A cold bench with a beautiful view on the Black Isle in Scotland. Taken on my first outing with Canon 350D
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