The weather’s been horrid here for the last week or so, and I’ve not been on any expeditions with the camera. However, the cat can oblige with a sceptical squint to break the drought.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Lochan an Torrnalaich
Hazel catkins
Auchinellan waterfall VI
Auchinellan waterfall V
Paul Braterman, who writes the very excellent Eat Your Brains Out blog, prefers shorter-exposure photos of waterfalls, so this one’s for him. 1/125 second exposure, but still some motion blur visible.
Auchinellan waterfall IV
Auchinellan waterfall III
To avoid the contrasty light which affected my last shoot at the waterfall, I went out at dawn on Saturday. I had hoped to get low sunlight coming through the trees onto the waterfall, but it was cloudy and I got even, flat light instead. This time I did a little more gardening to clean up the cascade and the plunge pool.
European robin (Erithacus rubecula)
I was out early yesterday morning to photograph the Auchinellan waterfall again, when I was joined by a robin. The robin is one of the most curious and least timid of British birds and this one stayed within a couple of metres of me for a series of shots.
For readers from any other part of the world where you’ve got birds called robins, they’re counterfeit, and this is the original and best.