Driving back to the ferry from Tobermory, I spied these old weather-beaten boats on the beach.
The sunlight streamed through the rafters at the Burrell Collection.
The William Wallace monument at Stirling gives the locals the chance to pretend to be an Australian pretending to be a Scot.
Freedom!
I got the chance to try out my new camera (a Canon 40D) and a new lens (a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS I bought second-hand) along with a 1.4x extender. I have never been able to get good shots at motor racing events before, as my lenses have either been too short or too slow. Along with the 40Ds 6.5fps when shooting RAW, the lens performed brilliantly - I got a lot of good-sized shots with sharp focus.
This corner proved to be a great spot to shoot from. You can tell how tight it is, not just from the wheel in the air, but by all the debris from the tyres.
Ouch.
A good reason not to stand too close to the gravel!
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Everyone has a show to advertise.
Even his super powers couldn’t get him a room during the Edinburgh Festival.
This bus stop sits, abandoned, inside a disused psychiatric hospital. Just after a rain shower, the site was incredibly quiet and still, and the sky brought an added sense of foreboding and drama.
I had wanted to take an HDR photo, but didn’t have my tripod, so the resulting exposures were impossible to align properly. I exposed the RAW at -2, -1, 0, 1 and 2 EV, then used Photomatix Pro to combine them and tone map to bring out the sky.
