Framedlight

At the end of September we visited Scotland and the islands of Skye, Lewis and Harris. I had a workshop booked for 4 days on Harris, so the plan was that Alan and I would drive the camper van up there, I would do the workshop and return home by plane and Alan would drive the camper back to Arkesden. We went up to Scotland in weather that was pretty wet and about to become worse. Still I cannot complain about the photographic potential of those cloudscapes. We got over the border, stopped the night in Glasgow with friends, and paused by Loch Lomond to take pictures of the Falls of Falloch. As we continued north the weather worsened, although the rain was stormy with patches of terrific light coming through on occasions. We drove past Beinn Dubhchraig near Crianlarich, where there were some wonderful crepuscular rays and on to Ben Dórain where the rain stopped for a short while. Then finally to Glencoe looking moodily magnificent. We took a small side trip up Glen Etive but will com...

The weather was still very overcast as we set out homewards over Glencoe and Rannoch Moor. The clouds suited the mood of the place although it was very crowded with tourists. On the bog I found a strange white flower which I could not identify. I corresponded with Roger Darlington of the Wild Flower Identification Guide who said it was the chickweed wintergreen. This grows on acid soils, no further south than Manchester. It is neither chickweed or wintergreen but trientalis europaea. The pictures are of Glencoe and Rannoch Moor, around Lake Tulla. There are a couple of infrared ones at the end. I took 3 exposures of each picture. I did process some of them as mild HDR, but decided I did not like the effect in this instance, so these are all pretty straight shots. We stopped at Hill House, designed by Mackintosh, on the way down south, but it was fleeting and I did not get much photographically out of it (I was not allowed to photograph inside the house!). We stopped overnight by a f...