February 2024 - Visiting old and new places
Hello everyone, I hope you are well at the time you are reading this!
February has been an interesting month for me and as the title suggests, I have visited both new and old places since we last spoke. I took images on six occaisons before my trip to Skye and then spent a week on Skye to finish the month off and start March. I also bought a new lens this month, a lens that gives me a little more reach so I can take images of things further away so it gives me more choice, for years I have just been taking images within the standard range of 24mm - 70mm full frame, this is camera speak for a pretty wide angle to get a lot of the landscape at 24mm, and a decent zoom at 70mm but not great for anything at distance. I now have 14mm, much wider and can much more in the shot, and on the zoom end I can now zoom up to 200mm which is a lot more zoomed in than 70mm, I’ll maybe make a post about the capabilities so you can see it later, now onto the images for this month!
St Monans Pier - 03/02
Image 1 - St Monans Pier - I’m not entirely happy with this image, from a technical perspective I had an equipment fault that prevented me from getting the image to my regular sharpness quality, I didn’t know this at the time though. I do like the colours in the image, and the subject, the pier, is very interesting. I did get to meet another photographer, Phil Cooke, I sat with him for roughly an hour and he was good company!
Check out his website https://www.philcookeimages.com/
The Tuning Fork - 10/02
The second week of February, on Wednesday I visited a new location that I had never visited before called Cockleroy Hill in the central belt near Linlithgow. It’s a great little hill, it has spectacular views to the West, North, and North-East. It only takes eight to ten minutes to make it to the top from the car park and it’s a very spacious car park, well worth the visit if you are ever in the area. The weather wasn’t what I wanted it to be, and I struggled as I thought the location needed more zoom (This was before the lens purchase), you will see more of this location shortly. Now for the image above, the ‘Tuning Fork’ tree, this is a tree I discovered a very long time ago in my late teens or early twenties, looking at the weather on the 10th I decided to visit it because even though it wasn’t foggy, the gentle levels of rain and low-level cloud would substitute it fairly well.
Sunrise over Grangemouth - 17/02
Image number 3 - Sunrise over Grangemouth - This is an image taken on Cockleroy Hill as discussed in the previous week, this image is taken looking towards the north west towards Grangemouth (Top Right of the image). The sidelight on this morning was gorgeous, I still do not think I have the perfect shot I am after from this location though! So will definitely be back for another go!
Glen Sligachan - Our front garden waterfall
Image 4 - Our front garden waterfall!
I did not do any photography in the first five days of this week, knowing I was going to Skye at the weekend I decided to give myself a little break from it so I can power through it when I arrived there, the last couple times I have visited Skye I have only had the one lens, so I was very excited to use my new lenses and get some new perspectives I wasn’t able to get last time!
Skye was fantastic, will be writing a blog for it too.