Photo of the Month: August 2013

Innominate, Perthshire

2nd August 2013, Innominate, Perthshire

I like to wait around until well after sunset, especially in the summer months when the light lingers. Sometimes unexpected and magical things happen.  The sun had set 40 minutes prior to taking this image. A gap in the clouds allowed light to spill and be reflected on the surface of the innominate lochan high up on a hill road in Perthshire.  The painted corrugated iron hut has window shutters of bare metal. The gloaming light has created a Saturnine atmosphere. Innominate means 'un-named' and both lochan and hut are un-named on OS Maps.  I hope it stays this way.

Technical Info:

Taken with a Canon EOS 5D mkII
Zeiss Distagon T* 21/2.8 ZE lens

EXIF: ISO-100 / 25 sec / f/10
Lee filters: 0.6 Hard GND

RAW File converted to TIFF in Canon DPP, developed in Adobe PSE9

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