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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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. [...]
Read more Crows at dawn
8 January, 2012
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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.
Read more Looking towards Insch
2 January, 2012
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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 [...]
Read more Sunrise at Stonehead on Winter Solstice
22 December, 2011
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I fed the livestock at a run this morning as I wanted to photograph the sun rising behind the stones of the Stonehead Circle at dawn on the Winter Solstice. After finishing my chores with about 10 minutes to spare, I collected the camera equipment and set myself up before the stones, which date to [...]
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