Photo of the Month: February 2015

Track of Turret

20th February 2015, Loch Turret reservoir, Perthshire

  

Loch Turret at the head of Glen Turret in Perthshire.  It is a reservoir, 4km in length, with an access track running along its eastern side that ends in upper Glen Turret below the summit of Ben Chonzie. I had all four seasons in an afternoon. Sun, rain, snow, hill fog and lots of cloud. In the sky were eagles, buzzards and a red kite too. With an hour to go before sunset I watched cloud descend from the north along the loch, laden with snow. The dead bracken below the track was lit by the sun which would soon disappear as the cloud engulfed the loch creating a ghostly atmosphere. The final image was blended and stitched from 3 overlapping frames.   

Technical Info:

Taken with a Canon EOS 5D mkII
Zeiss Distagon T* 35/2 ZE lens

EXIF: ISO-100 / 1/15 sec / f/11 x 3 frames, stitched
Lee filters: 0.6 Soft GND

RAW File converted to TIFF in Canon DPP, developed in Adobe PSE 9

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