Through The Mist

 This is a single handheld shot on a very misty Scottish night. The lens used was an old SMC Pentax-M 135mm 3.5 prime full manual which on a crop sensor is around 200mm. Shot at ISO 800 and 1/750 sec. Perhaps the settings could have been better but other than a quick guess there was no time to dial in other settings.

Castle Lachlan

What can I say about the lack of promised posts. I could blame covid-19 that however would not be true, it's more laziness on my part.

I have become so disillusioned by many of the photo sharing sites some I have been on for around fifteen years I decided to come back to blogging. Talking of covid the first image was taken just before we knew about it here and just weeks before lock down. A black and white image something I find myself more and more drawn to which also ties to a second image.

Here we have Old Castle Lachlan which sits on the banks of Loch Fyne over in Argyll and Bute. Sitting on land first recorded in 1314 although this building  dates to later with nothing visible remaining of the original. The new Castle Lachlan is within sight of this spot built in 1790.

 

The second image also black and white probably taken just a few years after the last pandemic the 1918 flu pandemic. Taken just about a mile down the road from the castle at Barnacarry Bay. The old boy with the beard was my great great Grandfather.

 

Turnberry Lighthouse

Sunset on the Ayrshire coast. 

Return to Hunter Blair

I waited until Autumn to return to the Lady Hunter Blair walk near Stration in the Lambdoughty glen in the hope of some Autumn colour. I wasn't sure what to expect as regards the amount of autumn colour and was slightly disappointed, that said it was not totally unexpected. Here are the two images from that trip.  Pentax-K5 Sigma 10-20mm 20sec f/13

Hunter Blair Project

I decided to make a return visit to the Lady Hunter Blair walk at Straiton to scout out some of the other falls there.  Mainly with a view to shooting some autumn colour in the future. The first image which I intended to be B&W was shot with my old fully manual SMC Pentax-M 1:2 50mm lens at f/11. The second is of the same set of falls with a SMC Pentax-A 28mm lens... enjoy.

Buachaille Etive Mor

I thought I'd try and find a slightly different composition of the Buachaille from the classic composition. Not sure if it works or not there is a reason some locations have a classic composition/view usually it's the best. Shot with a Pentax K-5 ISO 100 f/13 1/8sec at 10mm and one longer exposure for the water.

Lady Hunter Blair's Walk

As I'm  back to taking images on a more regular basis I thought I'd get back to the old blog. One of the many big and small waterfalls on the Lady Hunter Blair walk at Straiton down in Ayrshire Scotland.

Sailin castle Stalker

Once again SMC Pentax-M 135mm 3.5

Turnberry Mist

The lens used was my old SMC Pentax-M 135mm 3.5. I hope it's not classed as vintage as I remember buying it on my lunch break at school as if it were yesterday. Considering the owner #noDAPL

Back with a Ben

Awash

Windswept Dunure