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On Thursday I visited the ruins of Innerwick Castle - see blog post HERE - which is situated within the Thornton Glen Nature Reserve.  The reserve, which is managed and maintained by the Scottish Wildlife Trust , is a wooded glen with an abundance of ferns, wild flowers, birds and has Thornton Burn running through the middle.  The entrance is on the edge of the village of Crowhill and if you blink you will probably miss the style that leads into the secluded reserve.  Parking is on the road in the village so consideration for the residents is key when visiting the reserve.  The first thing that hits me was the smell of wild garlic, the ground is covered with thousands of white flower heads and as you walk along the narrow, muddy, path you are accompanied by this wonderful but very pungent smell.  But it a wonderful sight to see at this time of year.   It must be noted that the paths are very narrow and the glen has steep sides.  Whi...

A stroll in the woods near our home in Dunbar gave me another opportunity to test one of the four Fujinon prime lenses that came with the Fuji X-Pro1, this time the 14mm f2.8. A couple of days ago I reported that the 18mm f2 lens (27mm equiv) was the surprise wide angle of choice for the new camera.  I didn't mean that I didn't like the wider 14mm (21mm equiv), it was just a more considered choice.  However taking images of the autumnal scene in Link Wood, the wider 14mm lens proved to be a good choice. All images taken on a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujinon 14mm f2.8 lens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ---------------------------------------------...

I have just been sorting through the shots from seven days on Mull and I forgot about my images on the Fuji X100.  This is my little 'go anywhere' camera and I forgot to check the images I downloaded last week because I have been too busy sorting through the pictures taken on the Nikon D800 and D700. However I did start digging through the files and came across these shots of the ferns at the Art in Nature centre at Calgary on the Isle of Mull.  The strong sunlight coming through the trees highlighted the group of ferns growing near the pond at the start of the art walk through the woods.  I stopped to take some shots on the Fuji, which was set to macro to enable the camera to focus a lot closer on the super sharp Fujinon 23mm f2 lens.   All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 with a Fujinon 23mm f2 lens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BL...