Oban harbour, one sunny Sunday afternoon
Tag Archives: sunlight
Golden Hour
Sometimes, when the golden hour starts immediately after work finishes for the day, one just has to go for a drive around the middle of nowhere in Perthshire. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this scene along the back-road from Forgandenny to Glenfarg and was taken by the light on the undulating lines of the landscape.
I thought it interesting to compare it both in black & white versus colour, although both are a little more strongly processed than my usual taste.
Decrepitude (2): MPG
This pump in an old abandoned petrol-station was enjoying the last few rays of evening sunlight.
Flame On!
A couple of days ago the shed door started coming off its hinges altogether in ordinary use – the wood underlying the screws had rotten away.
This afternoon, we burned the whole thing – and a great bonfire it made, too, with the roofing felt melting, burning, exuding a thick black smoke (fortunately not for too long).
Evening Light
Narcissi and Dutchman’s Breeches backlit in the evening light.
The day after yesterday
Back down at the harbour this morning, sitting a little light on the sea
Sun, Sea and Sky
I never used to understand the appeal of going to the beach. I still don’t, but I do appreciate the simplicity and stillness of gazing out to sea from the coast instead.
Sunlight on clouds
Taken above Portpatrick harbour, looking mostly south.
Perthshire
Early(ish) mornings with thick frost on the grass, painfully bright in the glare of the sunlight as the world warms from -3C overnight.
Autumn sunlight in the grounds of Gleneagles
Thick misty clouds lurking in the glens.
Forests of primarily oak and birch, the trees green with moss while their fallen leaves cover the ground in a thick carpet of orange, yellow and red.
Autumn sunlight and a partially frozen pond
A red squirrel scampering up a beech tree.
Freedom to walk in the woods, basking in the joyful glory of it all.
The Wee Cauldron waterfalls, just north of Comrie
Nice Tree
We saw our first live red squirrels since moving down to Galloway yesterday, running around the branches of this tree.
Evening Light
More evidence of autumn: glorious golden light at just the right time to walk Dog.
Sunny Morning
Trees casting strong shadows across the road, with hints of a clear blue sky beyond. Definitely a pleasant way to spend half an hour of one’s morning.
A Hard Life
After the rains of yesterday evening, today had turned out sunny so far. Naturally, Dog’s bed had to be moved for optimum ray-catching potential.
Ferns in the light
One of the few New Year resolutions I’ve ever made was this year, and it was to look for photo opportunities characterised as much by areas of dark as by light – a kind of counter to the principle of seeking “good light”, largely because I find the term distasteful, so rather than photography, “writing with light” I hoped to print with dark instead. It’s actually been quite a successful strategy, over that I hope to continue using on occasion, as often as I remember anyway.
After a comment on blipfoto today, I did a bit of research into ferns. Earliest fossils of ferns data back to the Carboniferous period (325Mya), although the more modern species go as far back as the Cretaceous (145Mya). So now we know…
Winning
Our efforts keeping the garden well watered in the summer heat seem to be paying off – one of the first strawberries in the sun.
Fuzzy Friend
It appears to be summer – too hot for me, and even Dog doesn’t seem to like it that much, taking to lying in the hall in the middle of the house to stay cool. Walkies is best done in the woodland where it stays pleasantly cool and the light is beautifully dappled.