A recent trip beyond Inverness incurred a brief stop at Kessock Bridge and the light in the estuary needed to be captured. This time an Olympus EP5 and images taken in Raw and produced in both colour and B&W.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
From North Kessock, HighlandFrom North Kessock, Highland – Olympus EP5 processed in Lightroom & Nik softwareFrom North Kessock, Highland – Olympus EP5 processed in Lightroom & Nik software
The journey back brought most of a Sinar X large format camera but this was at night by then… The light here remained for at least 30 minutes – changing slightly over the period so there would have been time to set up the Sinar – if I had had a lens!
Scotland … open skies, rolling hills, small coves and harbours, amazing sandy and stony beaches and the weather is generally better – warmer and drier than the west coast…
But the Grampian Mountains are not far away and the views when travelling to Inverness and into the Highlands….
We do have winds here with added land and sea breezes and living in a small village our nearest main shopping is eight miles away.
The influences here are so very different, not just the absence of city buildings and structures, but the wide open skies and colours. Importantly, since our retirement, there is more time to see and learn from local artists and to be creative with experiments in ways that I just did not have the time for in Manchester. The result is that I often see differently.
So this blog may become different now……
Photographs or pieces of work…
More than photography…
A new way…
It is difficult to ignore the vibrance of summer colours, the light in the long evenings and the play of shadows all around.
So to start this new phase here are two iPhone images of the winter sun rising above our village three days ago. The first is as I saw the light through our blinds and then when opened taken through condensation on another upstairs window… and yes in colour. The first two images show the originals first as a reference – not a comparison – these are fairly ordinary and then the two worked on / processed versions where the ‘pictures’ break out from the window frames so that the border and the view became one.
‘Another way of seeing’ to borrow from John Berger … photography, art, mixed media… Would I put the last piece of work on our wall or exhibit it – yes I think so…
White and black photography 