First few from Scotland.......

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Bit of a mission this time, Fort William, Skye, Uist & Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra & Vatersay. Back to Skye then back to fort william.

Camera loaded up thursday night, all working. Arrive at Glen Loy 8am friday morning via a very cloudy Glen Coe, bit of a bugger as we'd driven up overnight in order to get there for the ridiculously early Scottish sunrise (does it actually get dark?)

Anyway, Camera out. Mirror mechanism buggered. Oh tits. A whole 10 days with only a 3.2Mp canon sureshot for company. lovely. And to cap it all off we had the best weather I've seen in 10 years of visiting the blessed place!

GRRRRRRRRR!!!

Anyway, these shots are all from Vatersay. Beautiful, lonely place stuck on the arse end of the outer hebs.

expect many, many more shots as I will probably show most of them to you at some point.

The panorama was a stitched job from 6 shots from the canon compact. the rest were a d200 borrowed off my mate in the few minutes he'd stopped to have a fag and a cuppa. Silly boy ;)

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Thoughts welcome......
 
Great shots! Love the second one, the colours and the beach look amazing! Look forward to seeing the other shots you took!
 
Thoughts.... I would have been jumping mad if my camera went U/S in what is obviously such a fab location.

Photography - the last shot is great. I love the light and composition. The sky and its reflection leads you into the shot brilliantly. Looking forward to some more please.

(y)
 
Hi Spencer

Sry to hear about the camera :( Looks like you had a great time in Scotland. I might be heading up there later in the summer.

Great shots again. Number 3 for me.

Gerald
 
Looking forward to the Barra shots as it's on my wishlist!

a lovely first three shots to start with, can't chose between them!
 
Excellent set of photos (y)
Think they are all great, but the lighting on no2 probably makes that one my
favourite.
 
We've been robbed!

I was looking forward to seeing loads of good stuff but am I to assume your output will be limited - I hope not!

Nice start anyway mate. I wait and watch with interest! (y)
 
Last one for me, great sky/light and those Fg reflections are just strong enough to anchor the image & hold it together.
 
Gebadire said:
Great shots! Love the second one, the colours and the beach look amazing! Look forward to seeing the other shots you took!
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Thanks, trying to sort through some but it's always hard when you've just got backl and are busy trying to get midge corpses out of everything!

BobR said:
Thoughts.... I would have been jumping mad if my camera went U/S in what is obviously such a fab location.
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There wasn't a lot I could do about it so it wasn't worth getting stressed, whisky may've helped ;) It was good to be a bit challenged too.

Richard Peters said:
Really like those last two...I really want to go back to scotland now :(
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So what's stopping you?

taxi said:
Hi Spencer

Sry to hear about the camera :( Looks like you had a great time in Scotland. I might be heading up there later in the summer.

Great shots again. Number 3 for me.

Gerald
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Cheers Gerald, did indeed have a great time. I'd highly recommend a tour of the western isles if you can squeeze it in!

MichaelPlace said:
Looking forward to the Barra shots as it's on my wishlist!

a lovely first three shots to start with, can't chose between them!
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Um, not sure I have too many shots of Barra itself. Bit of an off day (bad hangover, see reply above ;))

JIMC said:
Great photos,shows a different side of Scotland
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Yeah, it has many facets. These beaches are all shells btw. Oh, and there's good chance of coming across the other, military, type of shell too. Big range operated out there by Qinetiq for missiles and such like!

simonkit said:
Nice series, 2nd one for me - simple but very effective, excellent colours on them all (y)

simon
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Thanks

dixon said:
Excellent set of photos (y)
Think they are all great, but the lighting on no2 probably makes that one my
favourite.
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Thanks

ascott said:
Good set with the last two standing out for me.
Sounds like you has a rare old time!
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Did indeed.

HIMUPNORTH said:
We've been robbed!

I was looking forward to seeing loads of good stuff but am I to assume your output will be limited - I hope not!

Nice start anyway mate. I wait and watch with interest! (y)
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A bit limited yes, but I think between me an' my mate we probably took about 1500 shots over 10 days. battery power was an issue, ended up staying in a hotel just to charge everything up!

VinnyB said:
Love the 2nd one.... what pp was done on it??
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Very little, just a sharpen and a quick boost to saturation/contrast as I always have these turned to minimum in the camera for shooting RAW.

Misty said:
Nice set. 2nd & 3rd would be my choices
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Les McLean said:
Last one for me, great sky/light and those Fg reflections are just strong enough to anchor the image & hold it together.
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Thanks peeps.

stan the man said:
hi spencer...great shots mate (y).camera's eh,who'd have them :bonk::LOL:
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Not me apparently!
 
Beautiful shots, the stand out is number 3 for me but the second one is very close too.

Hope to see more from your trip.

Cheers

Iain
 
wow-very nice and the colors are beautiful
2 and 3 are my favs, but i hate to choose lol
hope to see more of your works with landscaping in particular = )
thats fit for a desktop wallpaper-sweet
 
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love the perspective in #2 and #3
not so keen on #1 - quite bland by comparison

shame about the hardware though
 
Great shots - but that's why I always carry several bodies - just in case! Come back soon.
 
Impressive pictures for a lowly compact - love #3, the texture in the foreground is excellent
 
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