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This morning I decided to get up and catch the sunrise down at Cove Harbour, which is located a few miles down the coast from Dunbar and is an oasis of tranquility.  After two weeks of travel and work in Japan and Portugal, Cove was the ideal place to unwind for a couple of hours before heading back to the office to prepare for the next FIA WEC event in China, which I fly out to on Sunday for eight days. Once a busy part of the east coast fishing industry, Cove Harbour is now used by a few small fishing boats that catch crabs and lobsters. All of the buildings associated with the harbour are listed and the harbour is owned by Cove Harbour Conservation Ltd.   With its old world feel and old building Cove is the ideal location for filming and has been used for major films, TV shows and fashion shoots.  With it's close proximity to Edinburgh, Cove is an ideal location for international companies to use. The shots on this page were taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 and the...

Nikon D800 - 17-35mm f2.8 - 304s @ f16 - ISO200 - Tripod - Lee Big Stopper ND filter This is one of the very long exposure shots I did on last week's trip to London.  This shot was a 304 second (that's five minutes) exposure, using a Lee 'Big Stopper' 10x ND filter. The result is a perfectly smooth River Thames and a sky that has a washed out feel due to the clouds moving in the wind.   On the Millennium Bridge most of the people have not registered but some decided to stay relatively still taking pictures of the scene towards London Bridge and have been recorded on the image.  I think this adds to the dynamic nature of the image and I like the result. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook ...