Archive for January, 2010
The Old Marker
Walking back down into Falkland from the col between East and West Lomond I passed this old marker post. It was unusual because it was painted and provided an nice splash of contrasting colour against the greens of the moss and wood. This was a straight RPP/Aperture conversion with vibrance and definition being punched up […]
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The Thaw
It is so much more difficult to move around when snow is thawing. Here on a narrow wooden bridge over Mapsie Den in Falkland, the snow had melted, frozen and then melted again. Now as it thawed it produced an interesting mushroom profile as it almost hovered over the wooden treads. This was a straightforward […]
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Melt Water
The Mapsie Burn is flowing again as the snow melts on the Lomond Hills. The burn runs over yellow sandstone bedrock with the smooth contours of waterworn rock, echoed in the surface of the water. A long exposure was required because of the gloom under the trees. Hand held, I was lucky that it came […]
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Hips in the thaw
It is slightly surprising to see life and colour returning after the black and white of the last month. This is another picture from Falkland; hips just thawing from the frost and snow. This is, I suppose, a lesson that it is worth looking at the details as much as at the big picture. I […]
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Nature’s Patchwork
Back in the grounds of Falkland House, the landscape has changed greatly since the thaw started. One thing I hadn’t expected to see was how flattened the grass and leaf litter was by the weight of the snow. The fallen leaves in particular glistened with the melted snow. The colours are very reminiscent of some […]
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The Thaw
Dull grey days, sleet, but more often rain. The thaw after snow is not a favourite time. Here is one taken earlier on Loch Leven presaging the thaw that is now upon us: This was a very low contrast image – dull grey light with only the lightest shadows. What stood out was the start […]
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Bench in snow
As the thaw continues here is an evening shot looking over to East Lomond Hill from the Falkland Estate. The two Lomond Hills (East and West) are very ancient volcanic plugs which push through the sandstone from when Fife was near the equator (no sign of that now). The light was gloomy, but there was […]
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Leaf
Gray, damp and the snow is melting. All a bit depressing. So here is a picture from a couple of weeks ago when it was sunny. The GX200 is an excellent macro camera. The light and the frost together brought out the texture of both the top and bottom sides of these beech leaves. A […]
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Mapsie Den
This is a final look at Mapsie Den (literally, we had been round the path, under the fall and now the light was going). This was a hasty photograph using the GX200 at 200 ISO. It starts to get a bit noisy at that ISO (its biggest failing) and if I were printing this picture […]
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Pillars of Ice
There is a bit of a thaw taking place, so this photograph is a retrospective on our recent cold, hard snap. It’s from Mapsie Den in Falkland again, with a different perspective of the icicles from my previous two posts – basically looking back at them having gone round/under the waterfall on the icy path. […]
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One Picture, One Day 