Tuesday 8 July 2014

cf.

Last Wednesday's wordless blogpost and the rather more wordy Comments section that accompanied it, featured a small part of the view from our doorstep.

In the Comments section, I mentioned that weather often intervenes in the visibility of this view.

Today is a case in point. Gorgeous sunshine all the way back, during my drive home from Kirkwall. Indeed, OTT was still bathed in solar radiance as I fired up the lawn weed mower. In fact, we've had some excellent weather over the last four days.

OK, there's a few caveats.

Different camera...

Different lens...

Wider field of view...

But essentially encompassing the same view.



The most striking thing about this photograph is the demarcation between mown weeds and unmown weeds, don't cha think?

But returning to the point, here's the bit to compare with last Wednesday...



No Dunnet Head, no Pentland Firth, no Scapa Flow, no South Ronaldsay, no Glimps Holm, no Lamb Holm, no Holm Sound.

Just the meadow at the end of the world.

Yep, a couple of days of sunshine and we're guaranteed a haar.
Which does have a sort of nautical, piratey ring to it, eh?

Update, several hours later...

4 comments:

Martin said...

Right-turn at the end of the world, next stop Haar-mony.

It is hard to believe that there isn't some optical trick here where you've moved the angle of the photo to hide the sea behind a hill or something. Still, contrasts like this will make the clear days appreciated that much more.

Imperfect and Tense said...

Not a trick, Martin, just the difference between a 300mm lens on a DSLR and a mobile phone.

biobabbler said...

omg--I owe it to my (many) science-nerdy guy friends to ensure they know about that word, haar. They'd lobbied (when I lived in WA state) for a pirate-themed party so they could talk like pirates, but the only role for women was "wenches" so I declined to host said Haar!-fest. Ooh, a harvest-time haar-fest. THAT might be cool...

(now I gotta go read the commentary to el silent post.)

Imperfect and Tense said...

The subject of 'Pirates' is woefully lacking in meaningful ecological research.

Take the parrot, do we ever find out its ID down to species level? I don't think so!

And as for the relationship between crocodiles and chronometers... ?!