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Landscape photography is mostly about planning to be in the right location and waiting for the right light.  However sometimes you just 'luck in' and this happened to me yesterday on the shore of Loch Fyne in the Highlands of Scotland. We were traveling back up the A82 to Inveraray when it started to rain.  The village has a small harbour so we decided to stop and wait for the rain to clear through.  As I was parking the car the light suddenly changed and a full rainbow appeared above the anchorage, highlighted by the dark rain clouds further up the loch. I grabbed the X-Pro2 with the Samyang 8mm fisheye to get the full arch rainbow.  I then had time to switch to the 50-140mm to get a closer shot of the rainbow hitting the sailing vessel moored up and then the 18mm f2 to get a different viewpoint before the rain stopped and the rainbow disappeared. It was a beautiful sight and one that I was in the right place at the right time to capture - pure luck!! ...

This is a picture from Tyningham beach on the western side of Belhaven Bay looking eastwards towards Dunbar.  The rain was falling on the horizon while dark, foreboding clouds scooted over Dunbar Castle in the distance. The image was taken on the Fujifilm X-T2 with the XF100-400mm f4.5/5.6 fitted with the zoom set to 100mm.  The camera was set to Aperture Priority and the exposure was 1/500s @ f4.5 ISO200.

This evening I hosted the first Dunbar Photo Walk and luckily the rain showers that had fallen for most of the day held off until the walk finished at 8pm. We were at the Victoria Harbour in Dunbar when the rain started to approach the town.  The black clouds certainly made for a dramatic backdrop to the harbour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION MacLean Photographic run Tours and Workshops in East Lothian and the Borders of Scotland.   CLICK HERE  for more deta...

Some Fujifilm products come with a WR label which stands for 'Weather Resistant'.  The X-T1 and the 16-55mm f2.8 and 50-140mm f2.8 lenses all come with this WR label but I always try to protect my camera gear from the weather as much as possible. However yesterday morning during Free Practice for the final European Le Mans Series race of the 2015 season the weather provided a good test to the WR claim.  I still had the cameras covered when I was walking but when shooting the camera and lens were exposed to the heavy rain and high winds. The conditions were certainly a challenge for the photographer as well and I think the cameras performed better than I did in the heavy rain and wind.  At least I know that the WR label on Fujifilm products actually means what it says.  I will still try to protect my gear as much as possible but if I do get caught out in bad weather in future at least I will have the confidence to know that the cameras will continue to functi...

Well the extreme Japanese weather has forced a change of plans for the second year running.  After landing at Tokyo Narita airport the news was the approach of Typhoon Phanfone to the coast of Japan has made the 500km car journey to Kyoto impossible.  So we took the decision to stay in Tokyo and ride out the storm here. The Tokyo Tower is not far from the Tokyo Grand hotel we stayed in on Sunday night and it certainly made a nice backdrop to the view from my 13th floor bedroom window ( top image ).  As the typhoon had not yet arrived, just the preceding heavy rain, we decided to go for a walk towards tower in the driving rain a fter being cooped up in a plane for nearly 12 hours .   The rain did make photography very difficult but by hiding under bridges we managed to get a few shots of the Tokyo Tower in the rain and low cloud before retiring to the hotel to dry off and grab some dinner. Built in 1958, the  Tokyo Tower is a communicat...

While we were enjoying our Italian holiday near Lake Como a couple of weeks ago the weather did decide to turn a little 'Scottish' on us at one point and the rain was coming down in buckets.   The only upside to this situation was this picture I grabbed of the rain drops forming on the underside of the railing on the apartment balcony.  The simple, almost mono, image was there for the taking and I did. There old saying that every dark cloud has a silver lining was literally the case with this shot!   Luckily the sun returned later in the afternoon and we were able to continue our Italian holiday. Image taken on a Fujifilm X-T1 + Fujinon XF55-200mm f3.5/4.8R OIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------------------------...

The apartment we rented for our week near Lake Como was situated on the side of the mountain overlooking the lake in the commune of San Siro.  San Siro was made of mostly new build properties but there were some older buildings clinging to the side of the hillside.   The first few mornings of our stay was unusually wet for Italy in August but the low cloud and mist provided a moody backdrop for some images from our balcony.  The view is looking north east towards Rezzonico down below on the lakeside. The two images above were shot on the Fujifilm X-T1 and the Fujinon XF55-200mm f3.5/4.8R OIS lens and converted to black and white in Silver Efex Pro2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. -----------------------------------------------...