It was one of those crazy late-spring days with a clear divide in the weather – everywhere north of the highland boundary fault was meant to get extreme precipitation, while Fife and Angus remained cool and dry. So we walked for a while in the West Woods of Ethie, admiring the lines and shapes of tall beech trees and subtle light and shade under the canopy.
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Glen Lednock: Trees
More experiments with the Olympus 7-14mm lens: a study in trees around Glen Lednock.
Black Woods of Rannoch
A few photos from a stroll around some of my favourite Highland Perthshire woodland, the Black Woods of Rannoch. A great way to spend the afternoon – chilling out with camera admiring the light and shadows among the pine trees
Birnam Hill: Trees
Straight and curved, young to characterful and spooky: the many and varied moods of trees. A handful of photos taken on a stroll around Birnam Hill.
Glen Affric: abstracts from reality
There’s an art to this kind of abstract – seeing, reducing the scene to an interplay of lines and shapes and seeking a kind of balanced visual weight across the frame. Hence, spatial distribution – nothing so crass as having one subject on which the eye can focus, but a pleasing arrangement nonetheless.
Perth: floral closeups: lines
Part two of a lunchtime stroll around Perth – floral closeups, a study in sprays of lines filling the frame.
I have no idea how the dog’s ball toy got stuck in that tree.
Crail: black and white
Three views of the beach at Crail, Fife – a study in the shapes of rocks and stones.
Inverawe Impressions (9/10)
A study of lines and shapes and forms of tree branches.
Inverawe Impressions (4/10)
A study of space-filling tree lines around Inverawe, Argyll.
A Tree
Time for something a little different, and back in the original spirit of this blog as a source for mobile photos, as well.
I spotted this tree in the middle of Craigie in Perth – perhaps an unexpected location for so elegant a life-form, and testament to the selectivity of photography. Camera never lies? If I’d framed this any lower, there would have been a fence and bunch of buildings and take-away shops in the way.
A birch tree in the middle of Craigie, Perth
Some experimental post-processing using the GIMP with the `Beautify’ plugin, amongst other things.
Ashford Bobbin Mill
A study in decay.
A listed historical building dating from around 1870, the Arkwright Society had a go at restoring this old bobbin mill near Sheldon in the late 70s, but nature seems to be winning again.
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.
Then and Now, Night and Day
Some time around March 2007 I acquired an ancient camera, an Ensign Carbine No.3, and took a photo of Perth railway station by night, returning home to develop the film myself. It’s the only photo I remember taking with that camera, but I like it for the Ilford Pan-F tonality and glow from the lens-haze.
Today, on my lunchtime stroll around town, I took a quick photo on the mobile, looking back along the same railway tracks to the station from the other side.
Perth railway station taken from Glasgow Road using a mobile phone camera (2014)
Perth railway station at night, taken on the Ensign Carbine No.3 with Ilford PanF+-50 film (2007)