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Old Pulteney

Whisky on Tour

Posted: July 24th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

On my small excursion to the Trinkie last night I was accompanied by my friend, Ian Horne. For the past few months Ian has hauled his camera, a bag of lenses, a couple of tripods, his wife Elaine, their dog Kobi… and a bottle of Old Pulteney whisky …
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The Trinkie, Wick, Caithness

The “Trinkie”

Posted: July 24th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

The “Trinkie” is a tidal outdoor swimming pool in Wick. During the first part of the 1900s the town councils in coastal Scotland were trying to pull some of the money from the tourist market by building these pools. The Trinkie was a very popular spot in Wick …
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Freswick Castle Long Exposure

Freswick Castle Long Exposure

Posted: July 23rd, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography

I took this photograph last night at around 6 in the evening. The weather was quite dull and breezy, and this makes for a really good opportunity to take a long exposure shot of the sky! I took a base exposure reading after setting the aperture to f/22 …
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Coghill Bridge - Wick Riverside Park

Photographing silhouettes at sunset

Posted: July 12th, 2012 | Tags: | Posted in: Photography, Tutorials

One of my favourite things to shoot are sunsets, and while sunset are fantastic on their own, they also provide a fantastic opportunity to capture interesting silhouettes. Silhouettes provide sunset images with something even more dramatic than a fiery red sky, and the stronger the subject used for the …
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