ian cameron

The incomparable scenery of the Lofoten Islands being swallowed up in

a great squall of hail and snow.

....way out there in space. This was such a cool sight on a

breathtakingly beautiful evening near the town of Ullapool in

Scotland..If you look carefully Jupiter is visible too.

Sunset into the light through thick haze enabled me to take this shot

without the usual flare problems that are often associated with

shooting into the sun. The pine islands adorn Loch Assynt.

A stormy sea swirls around the cauldron at the Bowfiddle rock at

Portknockie. Moray, Scotland.

A peat stream splits the red sand beach of Mellon Udrigle while

glancing winter sunlight grazes the beach.

Mist parts over Rannoch Moor partially revealing the famous island

tree which recently met it's demise in the Spring gales on Rannoch

moor, Glencoe, Scotland. Death of an icon.

The rocks at Hopeman a mix of two substrates the sandstone fingers

pointing towards the setting sun having seconds before just filled

with water.

Pentax 67II, 55-100 zoom + 0.45 ND grads (staggered) + 1.2 ND f/22 at

6 seconds on Fuji Velvia 50.

A golden morning with a stunning view and mirror reflections on Loch

Na Stainge, at Rannoch Moor, Scotland.

A blazing display of sunlight traverses the hills and temporarily

illuminates the tree so it shines against the velvet wrinkled table

cloth of the grass covered Quiraing on Skye.

Please view LARGE..

A meandering peat stream cuts through soft sand at Mellon Udrigle in

Scotland.

The beautiful red sand beach at Mellon Udrigle in Laide, Scotland in

pre-dawn light.

Turbulent seas and light rays splay around Portknockies Bowfiddle Rock

just after a summer sunrise.

Deep Snow at Loch An Eilein, Cairngorm, Scotland on a particularly

lovely winter day.

Hi Peter, Nothing noticeable at all with the 55-100 lens but the smallest aperture on that is f/32 where there is a very marginal evidence of softening.  The thing is that the physical aperture is still relatively large compared with the 35mm equivalent of f/22 so since the physical size of the aperture is large the diffraction is low.  With large format the use of f/45 and even f/64 is not particularly unusual and these are still blisteringly sharp.  The other thing is that it is better to have it universally slightly soft from front to back than differentially soft due to inadequate depth of field.

Earth Shadow over the Blackmount prior to sunrise on a winter morning

at Rannoch Moor, Glencoe, Scotland.

Lettoch, Spey Valley, Scotland

Scotland is in the ferocious grip of winter and for a change it has

come unusually early so it's about time I posted something that

relates more directly to the season. Hopefully the honey coloured

light doesn't make you shiver too much.

A golden cloak of backlit silver birch trees thickly coated with hoar

frost diffuses the setting sun turning them to drizzled gold.

Traigh Seilebost, Harris, Scotland

A magnificent pink sky with the Earth's shadow slowly setting through

it to form an indigo wedge at the horizon over Seilebost beach near

Luskentyre.

An atlantic storm front is about to burst on Traigh Mhor on Harris in

Scotland, preceded by some breathtakingly beautiful golden sunlight.

A wonderful west coast beach in South Harris, Scotland facing an

Atlantic squall.

Beautiful honey colored light unfurls tentative fingers at sunrise

across the bleak mountain landscape of Rannoch Moor in Scotland.

A really great underwater shot with beautiful light.  Love it.