Isle of Skye (56k no way)

[BroadbandPlacey]

been a while since i posted anything so i thought i may aswell give you the good stuff.

Just spent 6 glorious days on the Isle of Skye - mainly taking photos all week. Here are the first batch from The Trotternish Ridge, North East Skye.


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The Old Man of Storr - The Storr is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west.
The Storr is prime example of the Trotternish landslip, the longest such feature in Great Britain.
The area in front of the cliffs of The Storr is known as The Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remains of ancient volcanic plugs. One of the most famous of these is known as The Old Man of Storr. (Source: Wikipedia)

1. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 3 minutes | ND 0.9 Grad


2. ISO 100 | F16 | 14mm | 30 Seconds | ND 0.9 Grad


3. ISO 100 | F16 | 20mm | 1.3 Second | ND 0.9 Grad


4. ISO 100 | F16 | 20mm | 1/4 Second | ND0.9 Grad


5. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 10 Seconds | ND 0.p Grad


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The Quraing - The Quiraing is a spectacular landslip on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish Ridge on the Isle of Skye. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving, the road at its base near Flodigarry requires repairs each year.

6. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 1/60th Sec | ND 0.9 Grad


7. ISO 100 | F14 | 10mm | 1/80th Sec | ND 0.9 Grad


8. ISO 100 | F14 | 10mm | 1/60th Sec | ND 0.9 Grad


9. ISO 100 | F14 | 10mm | 1/50th Sec | ND 0.9 Grad


10. ISO 100 | F14 | 10mm 1/5oth Sec | ND 0.9 Grad


All images shot with Canon 350d using my 10-20mm Sigma.

[BroadbandPlacey]

Part two from the Isle of Skye.

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Elgol - Photos taken on the banks of Loch Scavaig, with views of the Cuillin mountains in the background.

11. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 6 Secs | ND 0.9 Grad


12. ISO 100 | F18 | 20mm | 1/10 Sec | ND 0.9 Grad



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Neist Point - is on the west coast of Skye. The Lighthouse was built in 1909 at a cost of £4,350 - the engineer being David A Stevenson of the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse builders.

13. ISO 100 | F18 | 10mm | 1/13 sec | ND 0.9 Grad


14. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 1/6 sec | ND 0.9 Grad


15. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 1/2 sec | ND 0.9 Grad


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Staffin Bay

16. ISO 100 | F16 | 12mm | 8 seconds | ND 0.9 Grad


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and one random one - forgot what is was called - near the old man on the trotternish ridge though.

17. ISO 100 | F16 | 10mm | 0.6 sec | ND 0.9 Grad

[BroadbandPlacey]

Whilst traveling back from Skye between Fort William and Glen Coe we stopped off at Rannoch Moor for a quick photo opportunity.

Rannoch Moor - is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km&#178 of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, Scotland.

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18. 10mm | 1/50th sec | F22 (silly me) | 0.9ND Grad (silly me again should have had my 0.6 on)


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Derwent Water - is one of the principal bodies of water in the Lake District National Park in the north of England.
The lake occupies part of Borrowdale and lays immediately south of the town of Keswick. It is both fed and drained by the River Derwent. It measures approximately 4 km (3 miles) long by 1.5 km (1 mile) wide and is some 22 metres (72 feet) deep. There are several islands within the lake, of which at least one is inhabited.

19. (a Waterfall that feeds into Derwent Water) 20mm | F16 | 4 second | Cokin P 154 - the jpg compression has really lost the greens from the original p'shop file.


20. 10mm | ISO 100 | F16 | 4 seconds | ND Grad 0.9


21. 10mm | ISO 100 | F16 | 20 seconds | ND Grad 0.9


C&C welcome as always

[TiG]

me bows down at the feet of BroadbandPlacey. Those pictures are truely awesome

Mind if i borrow one of those for my work desktop?
i'm thinking (The Quraing #6) something about it that just grabs me about it

My wembley picture while i'm enjoying it a lot gets owned by these!.

Thanks for sharing.

TiG

[Bobster]

fantastic photos , i have yet to master the art of landscape photography..

[Nemeliza]

*Applauds*

[chrestomanci]

WOW!

Those are seriously impressive photos. I am sure you could make a few quid selling some of them as posters.

That first photo, with the 3 minute exposure, was it taken at night? or is that filter very dark?

[BroadbandPlacey]

chrestomanci - that photo was taken at something like 3 o'clock in the morning just before sunrise.

cheers for the comments so far.

[Zak33]

bloody amazing.

any one of those would take my breath away if it were printed, and hung on a wall

[Sair33]

Those are truly fantastic pictures! Amazing looking place, and captured so well, very moody

Although I love the jetty / sunset ones, I think 14 & 15 are my favourite ones... torn as to which I prefer though!

Excellent stuff

[arbitor]

WOW not normally impressed by photos, those are amazing, looks better than it would in rl

Great stuff

[stroberaver]

Absolutely stunning stuff. You've got a great eye for landscapes - am I right in thinking that it's the use of a grad ND filter that really "makes" those images work? I haven't got an ND grad myself and haven't experimented with the effect they have.

[0iD]

Bluddy spactacular #20 would look awesome spanning my desktops, ho yes

[Nick F]

As always, amazing pictures.

Well done

[Rhyth]

Absoloutly beautiful Bbp! Thanks for sharing those gems with us.

They really are some of the nicest pictures I've seen taken for a while, lovely composition and you've captured a brilliant ambience to the location.

[Hans Voralberg]

Seriously good pics there, make me want a ND filter and money to travel lol. I envy you ^^