Portknockie Cherry

A cherry red clouded sky formed over the Bowfiddle Rock on the Moray

Coast line near Portknockie in Scotland last summer, this was about

peak intensity.

Cheers

PDE

Ian,  Oh how I would like to revisit Scotland.  It's a photographer's paradise.  That cherry red is superb.  I wonder if you wanted to get this more in focus or whether you deliberately went for a slight blur?  Nice work.  Larry

Ian, I like the unusual viewpoint.  The sky is superb, as are the softly lit rocks!  I remember seeing an image of yours of Bow Fiddle, perhaps from 10 years ago, and I was determined to go there on my first trip to Scotland in June 2008.  Got there but got nothing.  Went again in Fall 2015 and got a good one from beach level, but sure wish I had this sky!  Re Larry's comment, all looks sharply focused to me.  The clouds appear unusual, but that's due to a longer exposure, or perhaps multiple exposure.  Heading to Scotland in Feb 2017 but won't be visiting the east.  Regards, Jeff 

Hi Jeff

It was a very unusual sky, flat  clouds at the same lvel and quite thin they were catching the last dregs of sunlight at the anti-solar point, you can actually see a little of the earths shadow rising into the sky at the horizon.  Exposure time was around eight seconds but it was pretty still anyway so not much cloud movement.