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After our dawn photoshoot at Loch Tay we headed north, past Ben Lawers towards Glen Lyon.  The road takes you through some of the wildest moorland in Scotland and is very beautiful and peaceful at this time of year, a stark contrast to the last visit we made to this glen in the depth of winter in December 2014. Parking the car, we walked down the hill to a small burn that flows into the River Lyon.  The stream is marked on the map by it's gaelic name, Allt à Chobnair, and it flows from the top the mountain down the glen through a series of waterfalls.   The surrounding moorland is mostly peat bog and acts like a sponge.  The moor is a mass of low lying wild flowers, moss, heather and lichen. While the place looks barren, when you look closer the colours are amazing. I set the X-T2 and 10-24mm lens in front of a small set of falls to capture the flowing water and the dramatic backdrop of the mountains.  Using the Lee Big Stopper I slowed the exposu...

Just off the beach at Bathan's Strand near the Tyningham Estate is a headland known as St Baldred's Cradle. The area provides a great location to take pictures of the length of Tyningham beach out to Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. In August the area around East Lothian, and the rest of Scotland, turn a glorious shade of purple as the heather comes into flower.  There are several patches of heather on the headland and here are some of the shots I took during a walk last Friday morning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGE...