Waxwings

A tip-off that there was a flock of more than 100 settled in Gullane resulted in a trip down there ot have a go.  There wasn’t a cloud in the sky when I set out, but by the time I got there, it was densely overcast, and by half way through getting a shoot in,…

Lauder 05 November 2016 Sequences

The images in this album are sequences of frames from the day’s action.  They are formed by stacking JPEGs and creating an animated ‘GIF’ (.gif) file.  In the process, the number of colours is reduced from millions to just 256.  This can create blocking/posterising/banding in areas of even detail.  I also have to reduce the…

Botanic Lights… and other stuff

Botanic Lights 2016 – Explore has been designed by leading Scottish lighting designer, Grant Anderson, working with composer, Claire Mackenzie, and projection designer, Ross Blair, to create an all-new journey of light around the Garden, themed around exploring regions of the world where the Garden’s plants and trees originate, including the US, China, Chile, Nepal…

Lake of Menteith 22 October, 2016

Last club outing of the season and, as has tended to be the case, we got reasonable conditions.  Decidedly cool, but decent cover, and light winds.  Dougie Skedd and I set out our stall to go looking for risers in the quiet corners with dry fly.  We found the quiet corners and we found the…