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St Monans is a charming coastal village located in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. With its picturesque harbour, historic buildings, and stunning sea views, it's no wonder that St Monans has become a popular destination for photographers. The village offers a variety of photography locations, including the iconic St Monans Windmill, the colourful fishing boats in the harbour, and the beautiful St Monans Parish Church. The rugged coastline and rocky beaches also provide excellent opportunities for capturing dramatic seascapes.
It seems a good while since I've done anything meaningful in Scotland, the first location in Aberdour was a total washout with the rain appearing from nowhere, in fact in 4 days in Fife I must have seen about 7 or 8 unpredictable sea storms just come rolling in. This was early evening and another is making it's way towards the East Neuk of Fife so I had to really rush to get here and set up before it hit, in the end I managed about 20 minutes of shooting here before yet again the entire area went black and the rains came, this would be the only day where I could do this location due to the weather and tides combining so I was made up to come away with some images of it at last, this time the storms working in my favour instead of against me.
Anyone who's shot this location will know how tricky it is balancing yourself and all your stuff on the narrow wall in the wind, with a concrete floor behind you and the sea in front it isn't somewhere you want to be falling off....
Took a trip to St. Monans and Elie yesterday for another go at the Breakwater.
An old shot that I hadn't got around to until now. The early start paid off handsomely and we were rewarded with a spectacular sunrise
The silhouetted form of the Isle of May under the awesome colours of the rising sun, Sundays sunrise was kinda special!
The village of St. Monans was treated to a pretty special sunrise on Sunday, all the sensible people were probably still sleeping off the night before!
Its typical in a month that the sun has been splitting the pavement... the day i decide to go out snapping the heavens open up pour down!
The Windmill at St Monans. Its a really interesting place to visit, a typical scottish harbour (complete with zig zaggy pier). In front of the windmill are some old redundant saltpans that now look bizzare in antiquity.
more info here: www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stmonans/windmill/index.html
I've recently been told that my use of the term "Squinty Pier" to describe this architectural landscape feature is incorrect. I thought the term...
Another shot of St Monan's very distinctive harbour wall.
A monochrome, square crop of the magnificently photogenic, zig-zag harbour wall at St Monans, Fife, Scotland.
St Monans Breakwater at dawn
Another shot from St. Monans Pier the other day, this one taken before sunrise.
An early and chilly start to capture this sunrise at St Monans, Fife, Scotland.
St Monan's breakwater at sunset in Fife.
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A black & white, long exposure, landscape image of rocks on the shores of St Monans in Fife, Scotland.
St Monans Church looming over the small stream which runs by.
Explore #10 28/08/16
I was about to post up some stuff from Skye, as is always the way your latest trip seems to eclipse the last one as it is fresh in the memory and certain things get lost for a while. An email regarding this image jogged my memory as I wanted to post this on here, this was another shot just before a sea storm at St Monans in Fife, the irregular shaped breakwater standing up to absolutely everything that is thrown at it by nature, hence the title.
B/W to my mind is perfectly suited to this sort of stuff to accentuate shape and is normally something I'd go for here but the colours were appealing at the time of shooting this so this (sadly) became a bit of an afterthought, however the more I look at it I think I prefer this one for many different reasons, the stormy skies being absolutely ideal for this type of shot.
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Another from the dawn trip to deepest darkest Fife and the beautiful village of St.Monans and its infamous zig zag breakwater. The title refers to the rough sea outside the harbour wall and the smoother calmer water inside.
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Another from Fife, with surprise surprise yet another July sea storm brewing over the East Lothian area and heading toward the Fife Coast. A different take on it from the last one, with the long length of the jetty here I wanted to try a portrait format shot as well as it looked really good in camera, bit longer of an exposure with a 3 stop grad used for the sky, by the time I'd taken this and packed up for the climb down the ladder the rain was just starting to arrive, so a result, and a quick run back to the car on the harbour.... Berwick Law can be seem to the rear.
I'd thought about a black and white version for this but with the contrasty storm light the colours were pretty punchy so seems a waste to lose that for this one.
Another shot of the squinty pier, called 'The Blocks', at St Monans given the long exposure treatment.
An old photo of the famous zig-zag pier at St Monans.
This is my last photograph from a series I took at St Monans last week (I promise!) In this image, I have faced slightly back towards the Fife coast...
A focus stacked, long exposure, landscape image of the Zig Zag seawall at St. Monans in Fife, Scotland, on a sunny, spring day.
An extra long exposure shot at the squinty pier on the waterfront at St Monans.
The breakwater harbour wall to St Monans' harbour
The Blocks at St Monans, Fife at sunrise
The beautiful picture postcard village of St. Monans had some beautiful light in September when we visited. I love the way the sun is shining on the...
Another simple shot for today's post. Taken at the waterfront area of St Monans after I had finished shooting the breakwater for the evening. This...
Looking along the St Monans coast towards the remains of Newark castle.
The sun setting over the coast around St Monans in Fife.
There is a path which takes you from the Parish Church to the remains of Newark Castle, and...
"Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice" A reprocessed shot, initial processing was a lot more muted but on revisiting I wanted to show more of the colours especially on the sunny side of the sea wall. I'll be right beside you dear
Verry beautiful little Harbour with houses
Lens: 24mm at about 16 hours
Took a trip to St. Monans and Elie yesterday for another go at the Breakwater.
No visit to St. Monans is complete without shooting the Zig Zag breakwater, kind of like going to Glencoe and not shooting the Buachaille.
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A bit of an experiment using a new technique on an old subject.
One of the locations I really wanted to visit on my recent visit up to the Fife coastline in Scotland was this wonderful zig zag breakwater wall and...
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A long exposure, landscape image of the zigzag pier at St. Monan's harbour in Fife, Scotland.
The final in a series of images from this location. I...
This is one of the most photographed pieces of landscape in Scotland. I’m not sure what the attraction is to this particular object. I know the shape...
In this alternate view from the harbour wall at St Monans, Fife can be seen two "lumps" on the horizon. The one on the left is Bass Rock - a small...
the zig zag breakwater catch the last of the golden light at St. Monans in Fife
Some big stopper action on a rather dull, calm day
Dusk at St Monans, Fife, Scotland.
The whispy clouds airbrushed around the windmill.
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to St Monans!
Most notably Pete Rowbottom, Dee Eff and Christian Rey.