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I'm in a period of enforced archive mining at present, so here's my take on the Totternish tree from a few years ago. As you can see it was a bit of a mixed weather day, mostly rain but with occasional short breaks in the clouds. I was fortunate to catch the famous little tree when it was momentarily lit up in one of those short breaks in the cloud, and it's brightness contrasted well with the gloom on the hills of the Totternish ridge beyond.

Another photo from the archives. I still remember this morning very well. It was the first morning with magic light on the isle of sky. The 6 previous mornings I got up 4am just to go back to back - rain. Even this morning had it raining but I went to the quiraing anyway and was rewarded. The clouds broke up and I finally had my magic moment.

tech: hoya HD Pol + Lee 0.6 hard GND.

Edit: Thanks to various comments I've done a little adjutment to the saturation of this photo. In parts it's now slightly reduced

Decided to take another shot of the well known tree at the Quiraing since I missed it out last time I was on Skye in Feb.

Colour version of a previous post, although this one has a couple of people on the left hand hill which lends a bit of scale to the scene. Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall.

Sunrise

Quiraing, Isle of Skye

First proper walking trip of the year, up to The Wall. Been wanting to do Sycamore Gap for some time.

Buttermere

I was planning on taking a posting break for November however last weeks news from the cock wombles at SmugFlickr have roused me a little....... When Smugcup bought Flickr I remember thinking this is only going one way.....£$£$£$£$.....and so with last weeks news this is indeed the case. I started using Flickr primarily as a back up, I mean 1TB is a huge amount of free space, up until today I had over 9500 photos and was using 5% of my space. The reduction to 1000 photos is in my estimation 10-20GB, not bad for free but still a huge reduction. For my personal use 50GB would probably be fine so Smuggits claim of being cheaper than others is already starting to wear thin (apple £0.79pm , Smugtheif £5.99 pm) Now on the face of it I can understand their dilemma, it costs to host and I can't see them making a huge amount from advertising. I don't mind paying for a service, but, and it's a huge but, lets face it Flickr has been utter crap for the last few months, I mean why on earth don't they fix the thing then introduce the charge? It absolutely beggars belief. That's not what winds me up though, up until yesterday I was edging towards grabbing the 30% discount and giving it a try for a year, then I read the bit "oh and by the way if you pay you're more likely to get in Explore........" WTF, are they serious? Oh yes they are! Look SmugFlickr thats the main problem, people are fed up of multiple entires from the same user, 20 pictures of the 38 Stagecoach to West Kirby and bloody photos of Lego Batman eating bloody Lego ice cream dressed in Harry Potters cape. Lets not even start on bin lorries, I know that's an emotive one for some people.

Anyway I'll crawl back into hibernation for the rest of the month, sorry for the rant. I'd just like to say to all that follow me and comment, I really appreciate your time and thoughts, I know I don't comment a huge amount (that's generally because your photos are way better than mine and I don't know what to say half the time!) but I do always enjoy your work and indeed take inspiration from you.

I'll sign off with a song (Idea shamelessly nicked from Mark D) New Day Rising - Bob Mould/Dave Grohl youtu.be/XHjHBojMsRs

Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall, made famous by an appearance in Kevin Costners Robin Hood movie, apparently!

Detalle de la fachada principal del Guggenheim

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Used a really wide angle lens to capture this.

The Wanaka Tree During a bright and brilliant spring morning that lit the green leaves gold.

I've made a start to finish video based on the...

Nikon D810 - AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Lee Big Stopper

The morning we were leaving Wanaka we visited one of the most photographed trees...

I've always wanted to come here and see this tree, yes it's a tree, but probably the most famous tree in the UK, and in a stunning location I've wanted to walk for a long time too along Hadrians Wall, a trip to the North East coast provided the ideal detour en route and a silly early start from Wigan allowed for a decent time of day to shoot it, it was quite obvious on the way up fog was the order of the day which suited me fine as I love these conditions and no doubt it will be the olny time I get to shoot this place in fog. After I'd taken these and walked back within 10 minutes every last bit of fog had gone, totally vanished and it was transformed into bright daylight, totally different, yes you could see a LOT more - ie something past the end of your finger... but the atmosphere had waned hugely.

You can view my most interesting shots on Flickriver here: www.flickriver.com/photos/pete37038/popular-interesting/.

The truly spectacular Totternish Ridge caught in the spotlight of the sun breaking through the cloud after several days of rain. This was the third day in a row that I had tried to get this shot, it's one of Skye's 'Must do' places for 'Togs!

One from few weekends ago . Canon 5D mk4 Canon 16-35 f4 kase wolverine filters kase k8 filter holder Circular Polariser 0.9 Soft Grad

.... in Lake Wanaka, New Zealand

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... here's a pano of what may be the most photographed tree in New Zealand's South Island, surrounded by Lake Wanaka

... also known as " The Lone Willow Tree of New Zealand", has become a popular tourist site after exposure on Instagram.

That Wanaka Tree Shot on a beautiful early spring dawn with plenty of company and some nice light. This was taken about 20 minutes before dawn as a...