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A typical sunrise behind Dunnideer and Bennachie.

Snow erases the sunrise

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 [...]

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Dunnideer and Bennachie beneath an early dawn sky.

Dunnideer at dawn

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 [...]

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Crows fly as dawn unfolds behind Dunnideer.

Crows at dawn

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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The view from just below the standing stones on the flank of Dunnideer.

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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Sunset in the frame

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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