Last Saturday afternoon, I looked across Scapa Flow to the hills of Hoy, and initially thought that there had been more snow. Closer inspection revealed this not to be the case, as the effect was caused by a thin layer of cloud (or mist) hugging the hilltops. Owing to the ephemeral nature of these things, the leisurely progress of the cloud was not matched by my feverish fumbling with my camera.
On Sunday, at about the same time of day, we were treated to a very different set of lighting conditions. I had also fitted a larger lens to the camera, so couldn't fit all of the wanted image into one shot. Cue a stitching together of two photos to show the view of distant hills, Morven on the left and Ben Klibreck on the right.
And then, well, we were blessed with a rather spiffy sunset...
3 comments:
You live in a land of perpetually changing art! Amazing to see Ben Klibreck from Tense Towers mark-empty.blogspot.com that was a while back now...
I think I can see the join Mr Wise!
At risk of being accused of high jacking your blog I feel should relate a VERY RARE recent wildlife incident? On a day off, I set out on what I thought would be a short 2 hour walk to the transmitter and back. It actually turned into an 11 mile 8.5hr walk. By about lunchtime I was close to the land of the 'good ship lollipop' and saw near on simultaneously from the same spot: 4 Buzzard, 2 Kites, 2 Kestrel (may have been same bird?), 1 sparrowhawk, 1 peregrine and 3 Raven!!!
JD, rapt attention on your part and raptor tension on theirs?
Mark, it doesn't stay the same for very long. If we have the same weather for three days in a row, folk become rather twitchy.
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