Not one of my better images, thanks to poor light, no tripod and a high ISO, but I wanted to show the day’s end from the top of our hill. I fed the pigs, locked the chickens up and was taking Harvey, our Border Terrier, out for a quick session of ‘find the rabbits’ when [...]
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Striped dawn
We were late for rugby this morning. A major part of the reason was the sunrise. When I went out to feed the pigs, with plenty of time to spare, I discovered the sky was spectacularly striped by a combination of cloud formations and the light of the rising sun. Feed the pigs and get [...]
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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 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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‘Pa, Pa, look at the sky!’
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 [...]
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30 January, 2012


