Framedlight

After a very wet early morning it had started to dry out a little in Avebury, but the sun did not come out and the sky remained ominously cloudy. When I arrived the car park was empty but as time drew on more and more people came to walk around the stones and take in some of the atmosphere. I took photos at first using the Holga lens on my digital camera but then switching to a 'normal' view. I converted all of the pictures to monotone.

We had had a conversation with the manager of the campsite in Craignure, who was extremely helpful and advised us that white tailed sea eagles could be seen at Grass Point, just south east of Craignure. So we though that this would be our first port of call in Mull. We drove towards Lochdon and tried to go down a small road leading to Gorsten. Unfortunately it was one of the very minor roads in Mull, where the trunk roads are single track, and we had to bottle out before we had got very far. Lochdon was a very pretty village and we stopped to take a couple of pictures before driving on to Grass Point, passing a family of Highland Cattle standing in the road. At Grass Point we walked up to a promontory on the cliff overlooking Loch Don. The eagles were soaring over the bay but were too far away to photograph, although  it was a privilege to see them and Alan was happy. There was life on the grassy promontory too and a lark put on a show for us. Here...

By noon we had walked all the way around Tarn Hows, the light was too harsh and the area had filled up with people. We decamped to a cafe for lunch and then drove to the Lakeside car park in Keswick. We spent an hour or so here before moving to Castlerigg stone circle for dusk. We had intended to do the circle at dawn the next day but the weather forecast was not good. As it was afternoon there were more people there - basically a ring of photographers around the outside of the circle and a snake of others in and out of the stones taking selfies with their iPhones. All of the stone circle pictures apart from the first (24-70mm zoom) have been taken with a 70-200mm zoom lens on the Nikon D800e. The pictures from the lake have been taken using the 16-35mm zoom, or the 50mm f1.4 lens. Taken using pinhole lens Taken using pinhole and camera movement