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A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of some sea glass that we had picked up on some of our beach combing trips on the beaches near to our home in Dunbar.  There are plenty of other interesting things that we have found - shells, driftwood and some old iron items that have come from boats or from the many World War II installations that are on this coast. During the Second World War the threat of invasion was felt all around the UK, including the North Sea coast of Scotland.  With the naval base at Rosyth up the coast near Edinburgh, installations were built all along the East Lothian and Fife coasts, many of which are still visible today.   These macro photographs are of a piece of old iron that is probably the top of a metal post that was used to hold rolls of barbed wire.  It is corroded pretty badly but this makes it more interesting to photograph, which I did using the Fuji X-T1 and the XF60mm f2.4 macro.   Lighting was provided by the Niss...

Is this possibly the most beautiful sign in the whole of Scotland.  This sign is on one of the estates up in the Lammermuir Hills to the south of Dunbar in East Lothian.  It is a large wooden sign carved out of a tree trunk and covered in different lichens and mosses, which almost cover up the letters, which spell 'JOHNSCLEUCH' . The various natural growths on the sign made the perfect subject for a bit of macro photography and also enabled me to put the Nissin i40 flash on the extension cable to get some direct light by holding the flash in my left hand above the moss or lichen I was photographing. The final image is a panoramic shot on the X-T1 using the panoramic mode. On the left you can see the sign on the roadside. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping ...

Nissin i40  Last week I received the new Nissin i40 flash for the Fujifilm X-Series cameras from Cambrian Photography , a superb customer focused independent photographic retailer located in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.   One of the criticisms of the X-Series has been the lack of a credible flashgun for the system.  While Fujifilm have produced three flashguns (the EF-42, EF-20 and EF-X20), these have been lacking in the flexibility that professional and enthusiast photographers have been demanding. I bought the EF-20 for my X100 in early 2013 and while this is a great little flash, it doesn't allow me to get very creative due to it's limited controls.   The EF-42 Fujifilm flash is more flexible with manual overrides and user settings.  I did look at this flash when I bought the X-T1 but the size of the unit was a deciding factor and the plastic construction wasn't to my liking either.  The dimensions of the EF-42 are - 116 (H) x 64 (W) x 102 (D) ...