Loch Fyne

Today we drove up the West side of Loch Lomond, across to Arrochar at the head of Loch Long and then on over the Rest and be Thankful to Loch Fyne. The weather was dry but extremely cold, much more so than on Rannoch Moor yesterday, but there was high level blanket cloud cover with no gaps for the sun to shine through. This leaves colours flat and uninteresting on the whole and you can pretty much forget capturing wide vistas with snowy mountains against bright grey clouds!

I’ve got a couple of reflection based images that hold promise, but need some effort put into processing them carefully. For now, I’ve done a very quick B&W conversion on one and left the other unedited.

Tomorrow, I rest. No more driving for several hours to find myself swearing at the sky on a regular basis for a while yet.

Rannoch Moor and Glen Etive

Yesterday I spent the day doing photography stuffies through Rannoch Moor and Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland (right beside Glencoe, if that helps you pinpoint the location). The weather was variable to say the least, with several experiences of finding a wonderfully lit spot, stopping the car, setting up cameras and discovering low cloud had obscured everything more than a few dozen metres away. Yet we persevered and I managed to grab a number of images I’m happy with. Here are a few samples with no editing at all yet.

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Hello people with interest in photography!

I’ve run a photography blog in the past, but I limited the posts to photography sessions I carried out in my own time and ignored anything I did for clients, what I was doing regarding my business itself and what I do relating to photography in other areas. As a result it was somewhat sparse and while it received some good followers I lost the impetus to maintain it after a few months. Let’s see if I can do a little better this time!

I certainly intend to continue blogging about photography sessions I carry out in my own time but I also plan to add posts on some of the client work I do, general news relating to my business that doesn’t belong on the core website and a few other areas including information on camera I buy to add to my (brand new, absolutely tiny and entirely private) camera museum. More of a shelf than a museum at present. Well, really just one small end of a shelf for now. I plan on changing that over the next few months and years.

Bear with me while I slowly add posts over the next few weeks as the blog will be as sparse as my camera museum initially. With an expanded remit, I’m confident the blog will continue this time.