Lord of the Realm

My last in a short series of this wonderful pyramidical peak,

Buchaille etive mor, Glencoe, Scotland, and probably my favourite.

The soft lemon light allowed exquisite detail to be revealed in the

soft shadows, yet the colours seem to have been nicely retained.

Hope you like it too.

Ian,like it! I think it's outstanding. As you say, the lighting is wonderful and the composition is spot on . Well done

very very good shot...

Wow - this is phenomenal.

Excallent. I love the texture of this landscape and the way it holds interest up front.

surreal..... and incredible!

Oh wow, this one is just incredible!! There's so much going on but it all works together somehow... the lone tree, the little waterfall, the mountain that looks close enough to touch - great!

One of your finest Ian 7/7

This is magnificient! Try as I might, I can never even come close to what you can do. Do you give lessons? May I ask how you had the grad filter aligned? It's use is imperceptible, which is a good thing. Regards

Perfect!

Thankyou for your kind coments Walter. The grad used is a 0.45ND hard neutral grad. Alighn met in this case was remarkably easy. Review the depth of field preview and align the division line exactly where the sky and brown earth / heather meet. The mountain is receiving the weak sunlight too so it required the same filtration as the sky. Would that it was always this easy.

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Wow, that is rather stunning. Perfect light and composition, and the little stream in the foreground puts it over the top.

Beautiful composition. The only thing that distracts me is the "halo" around the mountain and the tree that seems to be due to the digital blending of multiple exposures.

I don't do digital blending. It is one image. Actually I wouldn't know how to do it and would be unhappy at having to blend two exposures even if I was able to do it. I have suffered with artefacts creeping in on compression before and there is a possibility that my flatbed scanner is responsible for some of these effects that you see, but it looks fine as a full resolution TIFF. I am afraid I cannot see the effect you refer to on my monitor.

Beautiful - looks like a scene from Lord of the Ring. Color, details, textures - all great. The dead-center composition can be something to play with (i.e. placing the mountain on one side or other) - not sure whether that will improve the image. I like this image very much.

Like it? I love it!! :-)

Good 3 dimentional photo, well croped. 7 6

Wonderful shot Ian. Very refreshing to see these subtle colors handled so well. The blue of the sky is in great balance and doesn't overwhelm. I'll keep it in mind as I try to avoid blasting saturation to catch peoples attention. Consider it a fine aged burgundy rather than a clumsy young california cabernet (if you speak wine, which I barely do).

 

Love the composition, centered (and very odd looking) hill with the tree set to the side. Without the water a great capture. With it, it's just extremely interesting.

 

Thanks for the inspiration. I know you must have spent a great deal of time and effort in the field to come up with results like this.

In Scotland, hills are mountains! From th escotclimb website comes the following description - "This is one of the most impressive mountains in Scotland. It's imposing profile appears to guard Glencoe against invasion as you approach the glen from the south, it's near vertical walls and buttresses soar towards upwards as if the mountain were a pyramid. "

Anyway, back to the photo: fantastic sense of grandeur and natural beauty. Love the composition and exposure. noting the use of the Grad. A 7 O 5

Probably one of the best landscape shots Ive ever seen. Great job.

I was a bit negative about one of your shots of the BEM a few weeks back. This is stunning however and one of the finest I've seen of that great hill! Brilliant landscapes on your page.

Awesome shot. So nice to see a craftsman doing his work with traditional materials and a real camera.

Very beautiful and high class technique. A delight from foreground to eternity. Regards

If I blank off the bit of sky, just above the peak of Kilimanjaro, so that the peak just touches the top of the pix, I find the feeling becomes more earthy and the shot more balanced. Otherwise wonderful, especially the correct timing for the running water, the sunlit patches here and there, and the stunning natural film colors, the harminious composition of running water with the still life, then the dynamic mountain angles.....