By popular demand...

Possibly reposted from before but...  Here are three shots from the neighbourhood for Melissa and Calie :)

These two sit side by side on my living room wall in silver coloured frames at 50*70cm (well that's a lie - but they will do tomorrow!  They are currently leaning against the wall waiting for me to mount them).  They are a couple of the views across the lake where I run.  It's man made, when I first moved to this town it was still a sand quarry - it's only really the last 5 years or so that it's started to resemble a recreation area (and was probably only finished 2.5 years ago - before then it was half recreation and half work site!).  Both shots are taken with the Canon 5D, shot one using the 180mm fixed focus Sigma EX DG 1:1 Macro lens, the second with the 70-200 EX DG lens @ 70mm

Though I will admit to playing with the colour of the second to make it match the first :) (for the wall, not here...)

And this one I still have to get printed at some point...  looking down the road I live on, across the road from my house.  At the bottom of the slop there is a Singel used for keeping the area dry - I live at the bottom of a 6.5m deep lake :)  This was also taken using the 5D and 180mm lens.

Melissa / Calie I hope that this is what you were hoping for :)  Here's hoping for more time to get the camera out again this week for some new shots!

Stace

Bing and a light goes on...

One of the benefits of waking up early at the weekends (one of not many) is that I have some peice and quiet, and can somethimes even think.

And bing went the bulb in my head... What I wanted to post this week were some of the shots I got of the Ice Curtains in Ross-shire from my visit over the holidays.

Basically due to the nature of the stone in the mountains water seeps through all year making for wet cliff faces. When it gets very cold this water freezes into vertical curtains of ice. It looks spectacular. Unfortunately white ice, with a white snow background and a white cloudy sky made it difficult photography so I don't have as many shots as I would have liked :)







This is the view from my parents house over the Cromarty Firth towards the black isle - taken approaching sunset. This may get used on the Christmas cards I send next year...



And lastly my ride sitting on a foot or so of snow in the lay by. So pleased the car has AWD and that I brought the winter tyres otherwise I don't think I would have been able to drive from the road onto the parking place to get the shots :)



Oh... One last thing. This makes my 50th post. A milestone I did not really expect to make when I started this blog. I've met (virtually) met many new people since doing this, and it has most definately improved my life. Thanks to all for reading - 1 follower is more than I was expecting, 18 (and thanks to Calie a peer award!) is so much more!

Stace