Ross Martin wrote:
These are all a delight for my eyes this morning, Dan! Really beautiful and tasteful monochrome work. Easily wins my vote.
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junglialoh wrote:
Well portrayed classic photography with fine composition
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Lobohowler wrote:
Love these. Great work.
(NOTE: Typing too fast without proofreading, I let a bunch of dumb typos remain when I originally posted this. The following has now been cleaned up a bit. I hope!)
Thank you, all!
Skye and Northwest Scotland (in photographs I have not yet shared here) were eye-opening, if sometimes a challenge to photograph. We have been to Scotland before, so I knew about Scottish weather, but this visit was a little earlier in the year than the previous, and that was enough to shift things in… “interesting” ways.
It was often cloudy and wet. Some days were entirely cloudy, and rain ranged from pretty solid (and sometimes momentarily quite intense, with strong winds) to periodic showers. The fully cloudy days were a photographic challenge, for sure, though even on those there were occasional lighter moments or interesting mists and shafts of light.
It was surprisingly cold. At first I thought that it was maybe just us and our California-adapted bodies, but locals I spoke with confirmed that, yes, it was unusually cold for the first half of May. The highest peaks here in Scotland are just over 3000’ feet, which seems modest to this Californian who is familiar with the Sierra Nevada, but they are rugged for their height, and several times we saw new snowfall on their summits.
In some ways, I suspect that September or even early October might be good times to photograph there. For one thing, being so far north, by May sunrise was already very early and sunset very late, making for extremely long days — and in the early autumn that would not be an issue.
But, all of that aside, Scotland is truly a wonderful place and we’d go back yet again in a heartbeat. (Don’t know that I qualify as an expert on the country yet, but if anyone has questions, let me know.)
Ross Martin wrote:
These are all a delight for my eyes this morning, Dan! Really beautiful and tasteful monochrome work. Easily wins my vote.
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junglialoh wrote:
Well portrayed classic photography with fine composition
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Lobohowler wrote:
Love these. Great work.
Thank you, all!
Skye and Northwest Scotland (in photograph I have not yet share here) were eye-opening, if sometimes a challenge to photograph. We have been to Scotland before, so I knew about Scottish weather, but this was visit was a little earlier in the year that previous, and that was enough to shift things in… “interesting” ways.
It was often cloudy and wet. Some days were entirely cloudy, and rain ranged from pretty solid (and sometimes momentarily quite intense, with strong winds) to periodic showers. The fully cloudy days were a photographic challenge, for sure, though even on those there were occasional lighter moments or interesting mists and shafts of light.
It was also surprisingly cold. At first I thought that it was maybe just us, but locals I spoke with confirmed that, yes, it was unusually cold for the first half of May. The highest peaks here in Scotland are just over 3000’ feet, which seems pretty modest to this Californian who is familiar with the Sierra Nevada, but they are rugged for their height, and several times we saw new snowfall on their summits.
In some ways, I suspect that September or even early October might be good times to photograph there. For one thing, being so far north, by May sunrise was already very early and sunset very late, making for extremely long days — and in the early autumn that would not be an issue.
But, all of that aside, Scotland is truly a wonderful place and we’d go back yet again in a heartbeat. (Don’t know that I qualify as an expert on the country yet, but if anyone has questions, let me know.)
Jul 22, 2026 at 04:40 PM
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