The Lazy Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Sunsets

 asides, Mull, Scotland, Sunset  No Responses »
May 102012
 

The second week in May saw us on the lovely Isle of Mull, staying in a cottage on the north west corner of the island. Our cottage is less than 50 yards from the sea, with views to the north over Skye, Rhum and Eigg, with Coll and Tiree to our left and Uist far off in the distance.

We spend our evenings watching the light paint ever changing pictures on Ardnamurchan and the light coming and going over Rhum. The rabbits and birds entertain us by going about their daily business and the otters are regular visitors to the bay.

Who needs David Attenborough, or the television for that matter.

Wednesday night looked promising, with a thin layer of cloud over Rhum that looked as though it would light up at sunset. We sat there with a glass of wine watching the ever changing light develop, then a squall slowly moved in from the east. It was going to be close, would the sun set before the squall obscured Rhum altogether!

At 9pm I finished my glass of wine, put on outdoor clothes and walked a couple of hundred yards to the headland to capture the sun setting over Coll. Meanwhile Janet kept a watchful eye on Rhum and captured this dramatic shot as the squall passed over the island.

Back at the cottage by 9.30 for more wine, feeling very pleased with our evenings work.

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May 032012
 

March normally sees us hosting our biggest exhibition of the year at the visitor centre at Sutton Bank, but this year the centre is under major refurbishment, so this left us looking for an alternative venue. I visited artist Chris Ware’s exhibition at Pickering station last year and decided that that was a very nice venue for an exhibition, so we have booked a couple of weekend exhibitions on 21-22nd April and another 16-17th June. So why not come along and visit us behind platform 2 on the weekend of 16-17th June to see a large selection of our mounted and framed prints?

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Scarborough Sunrise

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May 032012
 

Conscious that we’d spent a lot of time framing pictures to replace ones that had sold recently and very little time actually out shooting, we made a last minute decision  to go to Scarborough to shoot the dawn last Sunday. As April draws on, dawn shoots become ever more anti-social so sunsets now have much more appeal as they happen late evening rather than the 4am start we had on Sunday! This means you can get your tea before you go and still get to the pub before closing time!

We had a couple of ulterior motives with Scarborough as it’s one of a few gaps in my coast dawn to dusk project, but we also have an exciting new exhibition coming up in Scarborough in July, so we thought we ought to have some Scarborough shots for that . More news to follow in the “what’s on section” coming soon.

As always with landscape, you are very dependent on the weather conditions, so we were a little perturbed when in snowed on the way to Scarborough! Conditions weren’t  great though but the squally conditions did give us some interesting skies, so it just proves the old adage there’s no substitute for getting out there and giving it a go.

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Flying North for the Winter!

 Lofoten, Musings, Reine, Winter  No Responses »
Apr 032012
 

Early March saw us embark on a great adventure to the Lofoten Isles off northern Norway deep inside the arctic circle. We are often drawn to remote islands, but this has to be our most way out yet even surpassing the Isles of Eigg and Harris.

Not many people visit the Lofoten islands in winter, but the winter light can be awesome, as we saw on the drive down from the airport in Leknes to our base in Reine in south of the islands. We stayed in a fisherman’s hut or rorbu overlooking the fjord with Reinebringen mountain as a backdrop.

Picture postcard stuff!

After a storm the sky cleared on our first night, so we were treated to a faint but tantalising display by the northern lights, so far so good. 5 am the following morning saw me woken by fabulous arctic twilight, so we were up, out, working and smiling!

We had planned to shoot a lot of low visibility winter mono shots, but as is often the case with these wild, remote places, the weather can be very variable, so we spent the rest of the week dodging rain, smow, gales and glorious sunny periods. All in all a magic place to visit and well worth the effort.

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More Success for Janet!

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Mar 082012
 

Dreich Morning at Eilean Donan Castle

A few months ago a photographer friend tipped us off about the “Scottish Nature Awards” competition and book. We bought a copy of the 2011 book and liked the look of it, so we decided to enter and Janet was pleased to hear that her Eilean Donan photo had been selected for the landscape section.
The Scottish Nature Awards  is a relatively new competition and rapidly growing in stature so a worthy addition to stand alongside “Take a View”. Last year’s book had some very high profile entrants, so Janet is feeling very proud to be selected for this year’s book.

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Holy Island Workshop

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Mar 082012
 

We’d like to thank David, Denise, Andrew and Wendy for being such great company on our Holy Isle photo workshop last weekend, we certainly had a good time and look forward to doing it again later in the year. The weather did try to conspire against us, but fortunately we managed to juggle the classroom time when the weather was less than favourable, so it proved to be a very productive weekend.
Thanks also to our host Andrew for the hospitality and the base to work from. Having a classroom to work from meant that we were able to cater for a range of participants needs and provided a great chance to socialise on an evening plus an opportunity to review everyone’s work on the last morning.

PICTURES TO FOLLOW SOON……..

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