Rocks

Isle of Skye, Scotland

Explore #5 22/01/17

For me simply one of the best views in Britain, and my favourite Scottish Island of all, Skye.

An arduous trudge up to the top at this time of the morning but well worth it to take in the magical views, one of those places that it's very hard not to be left speechless by the sheer beauty of the place, wherever you point the camera it would be quite hard not to come away with something decent, although the light was good, the clouds on this morning weren't as dramatic as I would have liked so I've gone for a long exposure for the cloud movement and to drag the sky colour along a little, every time I look at these images from Skye I just really want to go back.

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A pink morning at Praia de Marinha waiting for the Sunrise. I hope you are all staying safe and healthy.

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• Henry Morton Stanley.

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Recently we had a chance to visit Joshua tree national park which is about 3 hours from our home and see a natural feature of the park which we missed the last two times we were there. The monolith and the Juniper tree is a well known feature and I desperately wanted to capture it in a sunset setting with some nice color in the sky. I had this shot in mind for a long time and I am really happy it came out the way I expected. Thank god for small wins.

Hope you all had a very happy New Years and wish everyone a great 2016.

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I have just returned from a photo tour in the Algarve lead by Paulo Silva. Three days of photographing spectacular cliffs and rocks along the beautiful coast, at sunrise and sunset. This was one of my favourite viewpoints. If you are interested in something like this check out Paulo's website: www.paulosilvalandscapephotography.com. He leads tours in various scenic parts of Portugal.

Vik: Reynisdrangar Seastacks.

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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This is an older pano shot I made at Joshua Tree National park some time ago. We originally planned to be at the Juniper and Monolith for sunset and got some shots that I posted earlier. But as the sunset was about done the sky was exploding in colors and I wanted to see if I could shoot a pano image just to emphasize the actual size of the rocks and landscape rather than just the distorted perspective shot of this iconic scene.

Si waked a bit more to a better vantage point to get a view that included the monolith and the sunset sky. And tried to capture the whole scale of the scene in front of us.

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Ir a esta playa era un deseo de hace mucho, no tuvimos el mejor cielo pero disfrutamos igual, ademas esta playa es tan bonita que no necesita mucho.

Old man of Storr Isle of Skye

I couldn't leave out the Old Man of Storr during my short stay on the Isle of Skye. It is a very busy place with lots of tourists climbing the slopes. Many of them hurry down the slopes after the ferocious attacks of the midges; a little nasty biting fly that comes in big swarms.

Old man of Storr, Isle of Skye

Escapade de 10 jours en Islande mars 2016

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Joshua Tree NP, Jumbo Rocks group. Resembling a penguine and a peacock ?

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Otra vista de esta conocida playa donde se aprecia el flysch.

• Andy Warhol.

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If you are a scenic byway nerd like I am, highway 12 in southern Utah should be on your list. The route is about 120 miles, and the sheer number of stunning locations accessible from this highway is staggering. We traveled on this road after getting caught up in a full-blown snowstorm at Bryce. We were one of the first people who left Bryce after the storm, and it was like driving through a winter wonderland. The snow looked untouched, and the contrast of white against the brilliant red of the landscape was nothing.

Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon NP, Kodachrome Basin SP, Grand Staircase-Escalante NM, Escalante Petrified Forest SP, Calf Creek Falls, Boulder Mountain, Capitol Reef NP, Blue Hills, and Hole in the wall road are some of the stunning locations accessible from scenic byway 12. I took this image at the Head of the rocks overlook, a scenic overlook with 360-degree views. I noticed this mountain in the distance and thought it would be the right candidate for a telephoto landscape image. I later learned that the mountain's name is Mt Pennell, an 11,413 ft peak, which the second tallest of the Henry Mountains, just behind Mt Ellen. The snowstorm cleared the view a lot, and the contrast between the red landscape of the foreground and the mountain in full snow glory was stunning. I cannot wait to get back to southern Utah and do a bit more exploring.

Conocida playa de la costa vasca, uno de lo lugares donde se puede observar la formación geológica llamada flysch.

Vik Sea Stacks at Sunset.

This day was had been an absolute washout, sheet rain all day, and thick cloud, not a hope of shooting anything, at sunset it was still horrible but we walked out to the beach at Vik to try and get some dramatic weather shots of the waves around the sea stacks, after 30 mins I'd given up as the winds were whipping up all the sand and I ended curled up in a ball on the beach it was that bad, pebbles bouncing off my knuckles while holding my hood down!! errr balls to this!!

With the weather from hell seemingly never ending we retreated back inland to shoot the church up high, no sooner had we left the beach this scene just broke out of absolutely nothing! had to leg it up the hill and set up really quickly with the long lens to grab this unfolding dramatic sunset, weirdly it was the best one we had all week, you can't turn your back on anything in this Country for 5 minutes, if you do you will miss something. After this had died off the grey drabness came back again before breaking once more into a huge afterburn of purple and red (pics to follow)

Check out the 5 people stood watching it on the beach adding scale

Nikon D850 Nikon 70-200 f/4 @ 145mm f/11 IS0 64 1/2 second

No filters Fotopro T74-C tripod Fotopro LG-9R ballhead

Lots more images from this trip can be found on my website here - updating regularly

Explore #7 - 10/08/17

I'm just in the process of planning a trip away and Skye is never far from my mind.. I got around to looking back at shots from the last trip and realised there is still a lot sat there completely untouched, something which I've been trying to address as it's such a waste given the effort to get them in the first place...

This was an early start which saw me being the first one up here on this morning, some nice light coming in with a very overcast sky making for a dramatic contrasting scene, this was shot a lot further down the slopes than the previous image I posted a good while back using a well worn walking track as a lead in,

You're never going to have a wasted trip up here for sunrise, because even if the light doesn't play ball for you you are still going to have the place pretty much to yourself to just take it all in, if you don't get a shot, hey so what, look where you are.... if you have ever seen how busy this place gets later in the day you will appreciate where I'm coming from.

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It was super windy at the black sand beach in Vik when I shot this image. The sand hitting my face was tough to deal with. It was a very cloudy day with some drizzle. There was no color at the scene and so ended up converting this image to B&W.

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Praia Da Marinha Portugal

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