Pretty Red Cap

I have to confess to being pretty unsure a trip down to Berwick-upon-Tweed for a sunset shoot was a particularly good idea.

My instinct is to try to at least point a bit towards the setting (or rising) sun. This instinctive desire to get in the sunlight is a conditioned reflex! I've spent so many trips shooting with an ultra-wide lens, looking for something interesting in the foreground and this type of shot usually works better when you have nice light illuminating whatever it is you have in the foreground. So my conditioned reflex coupled with an impression of the east coast being in deepest darkness at sunset meant I wasn't convinced we'd get much of interest. So as a compromise I suggested we just headed down to "scout" the place for a future sunrise. 

Took a risky trip to South Queensferry to shoot the Rail Bridge. Risky because it's been misty for the last few days and there was a strong possibility of coming away with nothing. (ed: You mean you didn't?)

As it was I had to work quite hard in Photoplop to pull any colour from the shots. The reason the images are all different colours is because I like to mess around with the White Balance in ACR. To be honest, probably only one of these shots was actually required - they are all pretty much identical except for minor compositional changes and crops. Having 8 shots the same colour would be a bit boring so why not have a bugger around with the White Balance!?

Reflecting Yellowcraigs

This time, Ross and I took a trip to Yellowcraigs just outside Dirleton in East Lothian. The plan was to get a nice seascape of Fidra. You know what they say about plans!

St Monans #3

One of my contacts on Flickr had posted a shot from this place and I immediately fell in love with the sea wall/sea defence/art installation. It was such an interesting shape and as many have said, kinda looks like a snake :)

The Bass Rock in Blackcurrant Sorbet

I was out a week or so before this trip, almost the first time this year, to do some images for a tutorial I'm writing on how to use the very excellent Image Averaging technique I saw mentioned on Flickr.