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UK break - Perth to LumphananKeith heads off North - September 2009A short travel photo blog of a trip up the NE side of the UK. Today, a trip north from Perth to Braemar via Pitlochry then towards Aberdeen to Lumphanan Sorry for delays, but laptop issues meant I was only able to update blog on my return Time for a break - a short UK trip this year. Hopefully of interest to some of our non UK readers. It's difficult to see your own country in the way that you view another - I've not tried it before, so I've no idea what this collection of images will bring. I should note that since it's a holiday too, the number of pictures may fluctuate considerably from day to day. Since I'm driving my own car, I've actually got a tripod with me, along with a larger than usual collection of lenses to go with my 1Ds3 (14mm, 15mm FE,17mm TS-E, 24mm TS-E, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, 2xTC)
No US road trip this year - for longer scenic trips, see Keith's Travel blogs - Colorado | Pacific US coast (California/Oregon/Washington). We're heading north towards Braemar, taking a route via Pitlochry to cover some roads I'd not seen before. Our destination, Lumphanan, is where a long time friend of mine lives. It's just north of Aboyne on the map below. View Larger Map Passing through Pitlochry, I've taken the A924, which quickly heads into some typical highlands scenery.
The photo was taken with my new 17mm TS-E lens - an idea of its sharpnes can be seen from this 100% crop of the thistle in the corner (f/8 unshifted).
Not just sheep in the road...
A Scotsman in full dress... It happened to be a photo shoot. Here's a view (cropped out of a 14mm shot) showing the photographer too.
I'm not sure what the photos were for - perhaps a biscuit tin, or perhaps the cover picture for a CD of Highland music. I noted a wide range of such musical entertainment in the shops at Pitlochrie. Here are a couple of B/W conversions of shots, where I used various contrast enhancement effects to get some detail out of the sky.
I'll have to have a look to see how these might work as big prints.
On previous trips up to Braemar, up along Glenshee, the weather has been more conducive to black and white. First, one from the last century - taken on film no less
And one a little more recent, on the road into Braemar from the Glenshee ski area
In Braemar, Karen decided it was time for an ice-cream.
A bit further on we stopped of in Lumphanan at Neil's
Next shot has a bit of camera blur from me trying to get out of the way :-) Not sure how much time elapsed from the opening, but not much froth has come out...
Unlike myself, Neil still works in the oil industry, and teaches sword fighting too. This, his party trick for opening a bottle of champagne with a sword. Neil's coming down to Leicester for our wedding in March 09 and has threatened to wear a kilt... Although I've arranged for a photographer friend to do the photography for the wedding, all too many people seem happy to think I'm going to be using a self timer and doing it myself... Just where on this site does it remotely suggest I do weddings??? :-) >> Next Day >> Blog delayed I'm afraid, due to laptop issues - sorry 12th September >> 13th September >> 15th September >> 16th September >> 17th September |
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