We’ve seen several ‘flash’ sunrises over the past few days, where a dark sky gives way to just a few minutes of pastel colours before everything turns grey. I missed several opportunities to capture the colours, by seconds on two occasions, but finally caught them this morning.
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Looking towards Insch
Blue skies are a good excuse for a walk, at least in our book, so the four of us plus Harvey, our Border Terrier, went for a jaunt from our croft to the neolithic standing stones on the western flank of Dunnideer. It was extremely windy and fairly cold so we didn’t go to the [...]
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Stonehead by night
Snow on the ground, ice on the stones, cloud before the moon, the city’s glow far away.
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Sunset, Plan B
I’ve spent the last few days waiting for the ideal conditions to take a walk up Dunnideer to photograph the sunset behind the croft. This evening, I thought I had favourable conditions: the rain had cleared, there was a break in the clouds from just overhead to the horizon, and the wind had eased a [...]
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8 January, 2012


