Nine Stone Circle

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My first post of 2017 is part of my New Years resolution and that is to get the maps out and visit some new places close to home.  I also intend to carry out some personal projects this year and one of these is to photograph the many standing stones and stone circles that are scattered around the countryside here in East Lothian and The Scottish Borders.

 The first images taken for this project is a site up in the Lammermuir Hills not far from Whiteadder Reservoir.  The Ordinance Survey map for the area has it marked as a stone circle near Nine Stone Rig.  

 I have downloaded the Ordinance Survey APP for my iPad and for a relatively small annual fee I can access every OS map for the whole of the UK.  While I still love having and using a physical, paper map, the APP is very useful.

 I decided to head up there this evening, parking the car off the road before hiking about half a mile up the hill to the spot where the nine low lying stones/ large boulders are laid out in a rough circle next to the track.  

I had timed my visit for late afternoon hoping to catch a nice sunset but while there was a nice glow on the underside of the clouds, the sun failed to appear as sunset approached.

 The image at the top of the page was taken on the Fujifilm X-T2 with the XF10-24mm f4 fitted with a Lee 0.9 soft ND Grad and a Lee 10x ND 'Big Stopper' filters to give an exposure time of 150 second @ f11 ISO400.  The camera was strapped to the Manfrotto MT190 tripod to keep everything steady in the driving northerly wind.


The second image was also taken on the X-T2 and XF10-24mm f4 but with just the ND grad filter fitted to give a shutter speed of 1/4 second @ f11 ISO400.

The third image was taken on the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with the XF18mm f2 Fujinon lens. The exposure was 1/35s @ f5.6 ISO200.

The fourth and final image was taken on the X-T2 and XF10-24mm f4 with an exposure of 259 seconds @f11 ISO400.
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