Atlantic Rollers

Atlantic Rollers thud into Traigh Mhor a favourite Harris beach at

sunrise on a moody autumnal morning.

Ian - lovely image, especially with the water in the foreground giving a lead-in. Question - is the colour in the clouds, which has no parallel in the beach and so looks slightly odd, due to the Hi-Tech grad (mine has a purple cast). Second question - a Fuji! What happened to the Pentax 6x7? (PS like your pics in the '17 JMT diary).

Hi John.

Actually the colour in the sky was extremely close to this as this was the clouds from the previous evening  lingering over the hills of Harris the light directly over my position was much clearer and much whiter,  I have only noticed a colour cast with the standard Hitech filters when the total stop density exceeds three stops, here I used just a one stop grad and the exceedingly neutral 3 stop Firecrest ND filters.  I am confident the colour cast was non-existent.  I have noticed this purplish hue in the Scottish landscape many times before though and in this case I am sure the pink fingers of dawn flavoured the sky more strongly than is usual.

With regards the Fuji camera.  I really like it, I love its light weight the quality it produces even direct from the camera and I tend to use it in exactly the same way that I use my Pentax 67II, but it still very much plays second fiddle to my Pentax 67II camera especially when real estate is called for on the big landscape scenes.  I was just having a lazy morning, the previous evening I was out with the big fella and the light was even more stunning.

lovely range of colors, lines and shapes- unique shot!