Jack Frosts Ayrshire Dawn

I really do not know about this one!! Yes it is a full colour shot taken on a frosty morning although it might look half colour half grayscale, there is a tinge of orange on the field in the foreground. ISO100, 1/125 sec exposure, f3.2 hmmm?

Storm Lamp 2

Sorry! Taken from a slightly different angle this time and without the lamp glare which enables you to see two windows lit up this time, (wow the excitement) normally the windows are all in darkness. Perhaps I could have done with slightly rougher seas to give a better look to the foreground but hey.CLICK THE PIC TO ENLARGE

ISO 100, 7sec exposure, f/3.2

Storm Lamp

I had to wait a day or two for the wind to abate otherwise it would probably have been a wasted half hour journey down to Turnberry. Luckily not only was the lamp alight (well it was near dark so it should be)but so was one of the window on the tower.

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Taken with ISO 100, 6sec exposure and F/3.2.

Havin to revert to my archives due to the weather these past few days.

Here we have the view from the top of the Merrick, the highest mountain in the South of Scotland. The body of water below is Loch Enoch famous for it's sand with the Kells range behind. If you look closely you can just see the white sand at the edges of the Loch. In days gone bye local men went into the hills to collect this sand which they carried out in sacks. It was then sold to be used in the sharpening of knives, scythes and other sharp implements.

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Tribute

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Doon by the River

I set of today to photograph a particular tree and ended up with this. The bonnie banks o' the river Doon as referred to by the poet Robert Burns. I was so intent on gettin the look of the water to my likin I did not even notice the ice on the two rocks not until I loaded up the pic to the computer.


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Roman in the Gloamin

True this shot was not taken in the gloamin (getting dark)but it is Roman. An ancient Roman bridge hidden in splendid isolation in the Galloway Hills

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Could this be one of those Romans just roamin around in wild places.

Sea-ing in January

My first attempt at this misty sea look.

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Memories of Summer Past

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A Smuggling we Shall Go

There are plenty of traditions surroundin these smugglers caves under Culzean Castle. One is that there is an underground passage to Turnberry. My favorite though is that the faerie on moonlight nights used them for dancin-halls, as alluded to by Burns in his "Hallowe'en." Then that a piper once entered them and was never seen again, his pipes last heard playin underground at a spot still called the Piper's Brae, about half a mile from the Castle. Another is that the laird of Culzean who shot Gilbert M'Adam the Covenanter, at Kirkmichael, used to hide in them from the wrath of the peasantry, though I suspect that every peasant there abouts knew all about the caves. Tradition also points to the caves bein used by the smugglers of last century to hide their contraband goods in from the search of the excise-man. Near-bye Croy shore also plays a part with smugglers and an old family house with an underground cellar as most cellars are.


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Which of these you believe is totally up to you! The masonry that you see is medieval and the caves have been used all the way back to prehistoric times, personally I'm with the faerie folk. For more info click the HERE

Depth

The lighthouse is overexposed but I thought there was enough interest in the foreground to overcome this without editing the pic

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It's Ice to Be

On the beach on new years day

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