We went for a family walk to the summit of Dunnideer today. Yes, we ignored the dire warnings about temperatures as low as the Himalayas and failed to heed the the advice to not make unnecessary journeys as we braved the ‘Siberian conditions’.
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Snow erases the sunrise
20 January, 2012
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As I was putting the boys on the school bus this morning, I noticed that not only did we had a beautiful sunrise but there was also a snowstorm blowing in from the west. I decided to see if I could capture the moment when the two events coincided. By the time I brought the [...]
Read more Dunnideer at dawn
14 January, 2012
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I didn’t intend to fill the blog with images of the sky over Dunnideer and Insch, but a long run of stunning dawns, sunrises and sunsets in the past few months has seen me post a run of landscape photographs. Earlier this week, I decided the blog needed a break from such photography. Until this [...]
Read more ‘Pa, Pa, look at the sky!’
14 January, 2012
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I was pottering about the house early this morning, just before pig feeding time, when the Big Lad ran down the stairs, shouting ‘Pa, Pa, look at the sky!’ We had an almost unbelievably spectacular display of early dawn light. I grabbed the camera and lenses, threw the boys a chocolate brownie each as thanks [...]
Read more Dunnideer at night
9 January, 2012
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An experimental shot of Dunnideer and its castle ruins at night with Bennachie on the right. The clouds behind the hill are illuminated by the lights of Inverurie and Aberdeen, giving them a weird orange glow. I took several 30 and 40-second exposures but this is the only one that was sharp enough to use. [...]
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