Firth of Forth

The old naval defences leading out to Cramond Island, at this end of the causeway it is about 10ft or more above the ground or beach level and during taking this shot I was nervously glancing back to the shore as the tide had begun to just lap over the top of the causeway. Decided to beat a hasty retreat as I hadn't packed my swimming costume!

The causeway out to Cramond Island about to be submerged by a tidal surge coming up the Forth.

First ever sunrise shots, the benefits of Autumn means not having to get up at an extreme hour of the morning!

Both the lower steps and myself after I slipped and rolled about in it! My take on a shot a good few of my contacts have taken.

Taken at Trinity near the Pumping station with Inchkeith lurking behind

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Decided to re-process a couple of old shots into b&w. Originally were posted in colour a while back.

Portobello, Edinburgh's own bit of seaside, in homage to the sunset I've decided to give it a Spanish twist and rechristen it Puertobello!

An early start today down at Joppa, was trying for another shot but that didn't work out as visualised so went to Plan B! The title refers to the depth marker in the foreground and Berwick Law and Cockenzie Power station in the background.

This is a b&w conversion! Weather today kind of lent itself to this kind of shot.

It's been a good while since I've had chance to go for such a minimal composition like this, but being in the area up here for Hogmanay (New Year in Scotland) there were a couple of locations nearby that I wanted to revisit if possible, and this was a new one for me, so the camera bag and stuff mysteriously found its way into the car...(fancy that).

The weather had been really odd with heavy snow on the way up, followed by full sun, then just to keep it random, sun with a good old huge hailstorm thrown in for good measure... That same evening I'd gone to Cramond for sunset but didn't even bother getting the camera out as the light was so poor.

This was the morning afterwards and the weather again had been pretty awful with rain and just the odd sunny spell, the hard part here was actually finding this battered old pier, a bit of driving about and ruling places out I eventually spotted it and it's a good old walk along a long uneven and rather slippy breakwater, at least it wasn't raining...

Just before the end of the walk it started to rain, you just knew it would, nothing surer! right at the end of the extremely exposed breakwater is somekind of old outbuilding though then a sheer drop into the sea, although you can't get in or under the building the rain was coming in from the left so I just set up at the right of it to try and sheild the camera lens whilst trying to keep it at the right height so as not to mix the subject with the background , the rain actually worked in my favour for once as the low rain clouds and fog passing over Fife in the distance just make it even more minimal and allowed a longer exposure where I didn't need to use any grads as the storm acted as one.

Amazingly not one rainspot on the glass either even though the camera was covered in them, and it stopped raining for me to walk back along the breakwater, that never happens! Maybe my luck is changing... but I won't hold my breath.

The Forth Bridge can be seen off to the left hand side of the frame.

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One more from the tidal surge up the Forth today as the water starts to come over the causeway.

Back down to Portobello beach and the groynes

Shot taken from the Promenade at Portobello, thought I'd try and make use of the wall.

Believe it or not this is actually a colour photo, not been converted to b&w in anyway! There is a slight tinge from the B&W 10 stop filter but other than that this is what it was like down at Portobello today!

These decaying concrete structures were erected during WWII as an anti-submarine defence system (submarine boom) and stretch from Cramond, on the...