I had some work up in Edinburgh back in March so I took a few days out to do a bit of a landscape tour.
The first couple of days were spent under cloud and snowfall which weren't too good for photography but did give me the chance to try building a quinzhee.
The following morning I got the shot of Buachaille Etive Mòr I was hoping for and then moved on up to another Scottish icon, Eilean Donan Castle.
There cannot be a more photographed castle in Scotland than this and I have shot it many times myself on film but I lacked a good image taken since my move to digital a few years ago.
I really couldn't resist another try but the challenge was to get something a little different from the millions of pictures already out there.
My hope was to use the remaining snow and to out wait the crowds of tourists that stop in the car park opposite the castle.
Of course, a growing lad has to eat so while I had dinner on the go I thought I might as well take a couple of shots of the "classic" viewpoint. On this occasion however, it seemed that the main focus of interest for a bus load of oriental tourists was the strange bloke cooking his sausages while pointing a camera at the castle.
The shot I was waiting for was this one, taken about half an hour after the last Grockle had departed. I had repositioned a couple of crab baskets earlier for interest in the foreground which no one else seemed to have noticed.
With that one safely on the cards it was time to try another couple of viewpoints using the lighting while it was still on. This one was from the slopes above the castle.
And this was from the castle car park later on when the main lights were turned off and the island was lit only from floodlights on the land.
I added a little bit of fill in with the headlights of the van for the foreground.
The first couple of days were spent under cloud and snowfall which weren't too good for photography but did give me the chance to try building a quinzhee.
The following morning I got the shot of Buachaille Etive Mòr I was hoping for and then moved on up to another Scottish icon, Eilean Donan Castle.
There cannot be a more photographed castle in Scotland than this and I have shot it many times myself on film but I lacked a good image taken since my move to digital a few years ago.
I really couldn't resist another try but the challenge was to get something a little different from the millions of pictures already out there.
My hope was to use the remaining snow and to out wait the crowds of tourists that stop in the car park opposite the castle.
Of course, a growing lad has to eat so while I had dinner on the go I thought I might as well take a couple of shots of the "classic" viewpoint. On this occasion however, it seemed that the main focus of interest for a bus load of oriental tourists was the strange bloke cooking his sausages while pointing a camera at the castle.
The shot I was waiting for was this one, taken about half an hour after the last Grockle had departed. I had repositioned a couple of crab baskets earlier for interest in the foreground which no one else seemed to have noticed.
With that one safely on the cards it was time to try another couple of viewpoints using the lighting while it was still on. This one was from the slopes above the castle.
And this was from the castle car park later on when the main lights were turned off and the island was lit only from floodlights on the land.
I added a little bit of fill in with the headlights of the van for the foreground.
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