Archive for May, 2010
Glenfarg
Glenfarg is a small, but startlingly abrupt cut in the outliers of the Ochil Hills. Only a couple of hundred feet deep or so, its narrow winding bottom and steep wooded slopes make it far more dramatic than mere statistics would suggest. Towards the northern end a walk through the woods leads to an overlook […]
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Spring Canopy
This is one of the two times of year when the leaves are at their most attractive – the fresh green of new leaves match very well with the colours of autumn. Looking up towards the bright spring sky allows a translucent light to really bring out the colours. It’s just like lying on your […]
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Evening Bluebells
The evening sunshine in Binn Woods makes very attractive light for photography. Here, the backlight is dffused enough to help bring out some of the delicate detail in these bluebell flowers. And here the difference that light and shade makes to the flowers’ colours is graphically displayed. It also catches the little droplet (of cuckoo […]
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Unfurling Ferns
All along the floor of the the Binn Woods in Glenfarg ferns are starting to uncurl. These beautiful fiddle shapes seem to be bursting with coiled energy. The shady evening sunlight provided perfect lighting conditions with the shade white balance selected. This was a GX200 shot, exploiting the excellent macro capabilities of that camera. The […]
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A Walk in the Woods
The narrow, wooded slash through the hills that is Glenfarg has a number of pleasant woodland walks that are particularly attractive at this time of year. So, to start on this short series let’s begin with the path through the woods. I deliberately shot with the widest aperture possible to throw the path in the […]
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Bursting into bloom
Bluebells are now blooming prolifically. They are too good to ignore. This is an E-520 shot with the 35 mm macro lens. It is wide open, focused on the very tips of the flower also catching the tiny raindrops on the flower. Although the Olympus jpegs are about as good as it gets, this is […]
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Yellow and Blue
The wind has finally swung round to the west and the weather is finally becoming spring like. Contrast yesterday’s shot with today’s. Only three days apart and the rape field in a field near our neighbouring village of Strathmiglo is much further on. The yellow flowers of the oilseed rape provide a striking contrast with […]
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Oilseed rape
One of the early season crops which is sowed in the fields near us is oilseed rape. Not the most attractive of crops, at least at this early stage it has yellow flowers. The fields are a yellow mist. A GF1/20 mm shot on a cool evening along Dryside. West Lomond hill is in the […]
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Country lane in evening
The sunny evenings are deceptive. It is still cold here and often barely above freezing at night. So despite, or perhaps because of, the clear blue sky it was getting pretty nippy when I went for a short wander along Dryside – the small road running underneath West Lomond Hill. Early barley is now starting […]
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Iris
Irises are glorious flowers – certainly more OTT than the modest bluebells in yesterdays post. This one was captured at Westbury Gardens, and was leading the pack in terms of flowering. This is a GF1 image, converted as is my norm from the raw file using RPP and then imported in Aperture. Here the auto […]
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One Picture, One Day 