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Today we are unveiling the new theme tune and title sequence for One Man and His Boat. Barry Brunton has been working hard on his new fishing boat, the Lynsey B , since selling the Rockhopper of Percuel at the end of 2018.   Delays in the delivery of the part build Cygnus 21 vessel, and then some significant changes to the regulations concerning the build, have proved to be a challenge for Barry who has been documenting his journey on his new YouTube channel ' One Man and His Boat '. We had produced a new title sequence for his videos in 2019 with a new theme tune bought under licence from Audioblocks.com.   However the music has been removed from the website by the composer and while we were still legally able to use it, we decided to look for a new track to go with an updated title sequence.  The track we found is called "Celtic Trailer" by Valentina Gribanova. Once we had the music, the next job was to update the video clips and match it to th...

The second full Rockhopper of Percuel episode has been published on the MacLean Photographic Vimeo channel . In part two Skipper Barry Brunton explains the various controls, dials and screens he has in front of him in the Rockhopper's wheelhouse. As well as the controls and dials for the engines, he explains the chart plotter and GPS system, the auto pilot, a must for him as he is single handed on the 32 foot fishing boat, and the radios, including the emergency system. The video was shot on a Fujifilm X-H1, a GoPro Hero 5 Black and the aerial images on a DJI Mavic Pro drone. The Rockhopper of Percuel has a new web presence with the launch of the Rockhopper pages on the MacLean Photographic website HERE . The site has all of the Rockhopper videos shot to date, seven in total - two episodes and five 'shorts'. It also features a new online shop for Rockhopper of Percuel merchandise where you can purchase items such as baseball caps, cotton shopping b...

Sunrise in the North Sea - Fujifilm X-H1 + XF10-24mm f4 After the first teaser video for the new series of features on the Rockhopper of Percuel, a fishing boat working out of Dunbar Harbour was posted last week, I have put the final touches to the first part of the series.  This is a three minute video entitled 'A Typical Day'. I went out on Friday with skipper Barry Brunton to film a typical day onboard the Rockhopper.  I was filming and photographing using two Fujifilm X-H1s and two GoPro Hero 5 cameras. The day started at 5:30am and we headed out just as the light was breaking on the horizon.  We are treated to a fabulous sunrise as Barry deployed the net for the first tow of the day. At 10am the net was brought back in but the tide and the wind had shifted meaning the sea had started to get a bit choppy.  Barry decided that it was a bit risky doing a second tow in the 32 foot Rockhopper and he decided to head back to Dunbar Harbour with a small ...

I am working on a personal project with Barry Brunton, skipper of the Rockhopper of Percuel, a 32ft fishing boat that works out of Dunbar Harbour. The Brunton family have a long association with Dunbar stretching back to the 14th century with Barry's grandfather and great-grandfather fishing the North Sea and being the coxswain of the Dunbar Lifeboat.  Over the next few months I will be following Barry as he fishes the coastal waters around the South East of Scotland and I'll take everyone on a behind the scenes look at what it takes to be a fisherman in the 21st century. CLICK HERE to visit the Rockhopper of Percuel Facebook page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -------------------...

Living on the Scottish coast provides a great variety in the weather. This evening the clouds were gathering to the south west as a new weather front came across East Lothian with the forecast predicting high winds and heavy rain.   However this evening, just before sunset, the seas were relatively calm.  I took the Fujifilm X100T along with the Manfrotto Pixi Evo mini tripod and a cable release down to the rocks below Dunbar Castle to capture a few long exposures as the light faded. Two of the fishing boats returned to Dunbar Harbour as I was sitting enjoying the view, so I managed to grab a few images as the boats passed in front of me before entering the harbour. All of these images were taken on the Fujifilm X100T using the cameras fixed 23mm f2 lens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By cl...

There is an old photographic adage that says the best camera to won is the one you have on you when there is a picture to be taken.  This was certainly the case yesterday evening when we were sitting on a bench at Newhaven Harbour in Edinburgh.   The light from the low sun was providing the perfect light for a picture of the boats and lighthouse and all I had to do was reach into my pocket for the Fujifilm X100 I usually keep there for spontaneous images when they present themselves. The image was taken on the X100 with the standard fixed 23mm f2 Fujinon lens.  The exposure was 1/320s @ f8 ISO200. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

A short walk around Cromwell Harbour earlier this week netted me some great colour and reflection shots.   The boats are now being put back into the water after they were lifted out for the winter and some have received a lick of paint to provide a colourful backdrop. Cromwell Harbour is the oldest of the two Dunbar harbours and is named after Oliver Cromwell who enhanced the anchorage at Dunbar to use as a base of operations during his invasion of Scotland in the 17th Century. I used the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with the XF100-400mm to isolate parts of the colourful scene or I fitted the 18mm f2 lens to give an overall shot of the harbour and the town of Dunbar behind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ...

One of the great things about living in Dunbar is it has a working fishing harbour and there are always plenty of things to focus my lens on during the year ( see yesterday's blog ). With high winds and rain lashing the East Coast of Scotland today, it certainly isn't a day for photography or for fishing so I decided to work on some of the images I have taken in 2015. This image is of the fishing boat Arcturus which is one of the largest trawlers in the Dunbar fleet.  The shot was taken in September from the cliff tops over looking the approach to the harbour entrance, which is situated below the ruins of Dunbar Castle. The light was just perfect as there was a little bit of sea fog out in the Firth of Forth, which was diffusing the light as the sun set behind me to my left, producing some wonderful colours. This shot was taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 and XF50-140mm f2.8 + the 1.4x converter.  --------------------------------------------------------------...

After supporting the annual Dunbar Dip , I decided to take a walk back via Cromwell Harbour to get some shots of the fishing boats that were moored up for the Christmas break.  With the low tide the boats were resting on the bottom of the harbour and I was able to get down low to get some different images of the Dunbar fishing fleet. Cromwell is the older of the two Dunbar harbours, the other being Victoria, and is named after Oliver Cromwell who used Dunbar as a base for his troops in 1650. Also visible in the stone wall is the remains of old stairs known at the Johnny Cope Steps.  General Cope landed his troops in Dunbar in September 1745 just prior to the Battle of Prestonpans where the Jacobite army, led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, defeated the English in the first major battle of the 1745 Rising. Cromwell Harbour is now a very peaceful place but very much a working harbour.  However there is plenty...