CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

This shot makes my top ten favourite images because it was the culmination of a very early start and a bit of belief to actually get the picture.   I left Dunbar at 2am in the morning to head north to Loch Tay.  The weather forecast wasn't great, with unbroken cloud for the morning, but something told me to go anyway. As 5am approached the clouds started to part and we got set up on the side of the loch to wait.  When the sun came up the clouds parted to give us a wonderful and the result was a beautiful set of images. Then the midges woke up and we had to put up with the flying pests for the next 30-minutes before we packed up and moved to the next location. The image was taken on a Fujifilm X-T2 and a XF10-24mm f4 lens.   CLICK HERE to see the blog    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE ...

Getting up early to catch the early light is something that all landscape photographers do.  Up here in Scotland getting up to catch the dawn light in winter is easy because of the very short days, however in the summer the opposite is true.  So yesterday morning a two hour car journey from Dunbar to catch the dawn light at Loch Tay at 5:17am meant a 2:30am alarm. Now I have to admit my head was telling me to go back to bed but I fought the urge and got into the car, stopping off to pick up a fellow photographer before heading north.   We arrived at the village of Killin and heading along the road on the south side of the loch.  All feelings of heading back to bed were extinguished on arrival at our chosen vantage point at 5am at Loch Tay when we saw the possibilities of the scene in front of us. Loch Tay was like a mill pond, the water was calm and perfectly clear and as the sun came up over the mountains in the distance the colours shifted from blue to or...