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Loch Druim Suardalain deep in the Scottish Highlands during some

gorgeous autumnal weather.

A quiet backwater of Loch Assynt at twilight in the Highlands of

Scotland, pleased with the mimicry of the reeds and skeletal trees.

A gorgeous autumn morning on a perfectly still day with wraiths of

mist lifting off the silent lochans.

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. 

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.

Beautiful late afternoon autumn sunlight bathes the peak of Marsco on

Skye beneath which flows the river Sligachan slowed by extending the

exposure with a suitable ND filter.

Gorgeous autumnal light shortly after sunrise strikes the iconic tree

and slopes of the velvet beize Quiraing.

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.

Atlantic Rollers thud into Traigh Mhor a favourite Harris beach at

sunrise on a moody autumnal morning.

An amazing scene un-ravelled on top of Tom Na Gruigach in Torridon

following a rather intense autumn squall at the summit. Sunlight

punched through the clouds and lit the russet coloured slopes.

Please view the LARGE image its more impressive and the colour profile

is recognised.

View from Tom Na Gruigaich over the roof top of the Torridon mountains

in Scotland ona summer afternoon just prior to a storm breaking.

A gorgeous area near Dundonnell in Ross Shire, Scotland in the

foothills of An Teallach. A bit of autumn camping and end of day

light striking the top of a long ridge of rock carefully aligned with

the mountain peak.

A storm hags its weary head over Eilean Donan Castle at sunrise.

Miraculously the clouds part for a few seconds and golden sunlight

spills over the ramparts. I opted to slow down the exposure to

reconstitute the reflections.

Please view the LARGE version.

Sunrise on a very chilly early Spring morning after a clear night on

Loch Clair in Torridon. Please see the larger image as the colour

profile is much more accurate.

Mean't to add it is much better viewed LARGE as the colour profile is taken into account and more info visible.

Sunset and radial orange rays reflecting in Loch Appin near to the

silhouetted cube of Castle Stalker, never seen such awesome light and

had to handle it as best I could with two filters 0.45ND Hard Grad to

balance reflection in the water and then a 2 stop soft edge grad held

on its side to cover left half of frame and hold back some light to

get a little information out of right side of frame.

Reine Harbour, Lofoten, Norway unusually shot with a long lens to add

some gravitas to the mountains by compression of perspective, briefly

lit on a very unpromising winter morning by a shaft of sunlight. It

was such an awe inspiring sight.

Please view the LARGE version,

A sunset at Uttakliev with golden sunlight raking through low cloud

striking the black sea polished boulders with an extended shutter

speed of around 15 seconds.

I've waited a while to make my comment in case I put my eyes in back to front (I wear contacts), truly I cannot see any tilt to the horizon, I have scrolled the image to the top of the page but even so I cannot see any discernible indication that the horizon is anything less than dead straight.

Sand bars on a beautiful Harris beach with Earth Shadow sinking on the

rising sun over the mound of Ceaphabhal.

Traigh Lar, Harris, Scotland.

A pink dawn exhibiting Earth shadow rises over Ceaphabhal  staining it blood red with a beautifully strong and clean sand bar pattern on the sandy beach  in front.

A winter sunrise in extraordinary multi-hued indirect light at the

Quiraing on Skye in Scotland.

Loch Assynt and its island pine trees shot using the long end of a

zoom with misty recession to separate the trees at sunset.

A perfectly still and misty autumnal morning over Loch Bad A Ghaill in

Inverpolly, Scotland.