View of Loch Leven taken from the Glencoe Boat Club. Under a cloudy sky you can see the snow capped hills and mountains in the distance. Bright spots of colour are provided by the trees edging the loch in the middle distance. The clouds and patches of blue sky are reflected in the water.

Loch Leven, Ballachulish

We came upon a winter wonderland as we passed through Ballachulish.

Holga 120CFN & Kodak Portra 400

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A wooden fence stretches across the image. Bits of seaweed and marram grass are caught in it and sand is visible both in front and behind. The roof and chimneys of the houses behind peek above the fence. The sky is cloudy but there are hints of blue and pale rose in amongst the shades of grey.

Fenceline, Nairn

Holga 120CFN & Kodak Portra 400

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During Lockdown in 2020, I tried various photography challenges to keep the creative mojo flowing and combat the boredom of being confined to home. One of the challenges involved recreating a famous image. I chose Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson (image on left). It’s a photo I’ve always loved and is a face framing black & White image of Swanson gazing intensely through a patterned piece of black net material. As luck would have it, I happened to have a black net tablecloth left over from Halloween. I wrapped my head in a dark towel to mimic her turban and chose a dark lipstick, some black eyeliner (inexpertly applied) and set about attempting my version. I used a large format camera (Intrepid 5x4 with a Nikkor-W 180mm lens) and some experimental New55PN BNW Instant film. It took me 4 or 5 attempts, using my rapidly dwindling (and expensive) stock of this film. Not the wisest choice perhaps but it was what I had to hand. I rarely take portraits, much less selfies and I underestimated how hard it would be to get the focus right. It’s definitely not a perfect image but I am really glad I tried it.

That time in Lockdown when I attempted to recreate Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson using my Intrepid 5x4 camera & New55 Instant film

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A black and white photo of a rounded and beach washed stone on a beach in Largs. There are tiny limpets clinging to it, running in a ring around its circumference. The top is largely bare of them. Other smaller pebbles and seaweed surround it forming a dark background and giving it prominence.

Small Planet

No idea what film this was but probably taken with the Canon 300V & 50mm f1.4 lens in Largs.

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View of Loch Ainort on the Isle of Skye. A cloud filled blue sky sits above the loch. There is a cluster of houses in the distance and a light mist shrouds the hills behind. A pebbly beach sits in the foreground. It curves away to the left, leading your eye to the houses and hills beyond.

Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye

Holga 120CFN and Cinestill 400 (I think)

The negs are at home in London so I can’t check. This was taken on Skye in the summer.

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Sunset at Firkin Point on Loch Lomond. The sky and surrounding hills are reflected in the smooth as glass water of the loch. The hills in the distance are still sunlit while the closer ones sink into shadow. The water is coloured with yellow and orange, blue and white.

Firkin Point Sunset

Holga 120CFN & Harmon Phoenix 200 film

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet & of wilderness? Let them be left.
O let them be left, wilderness & wet;
Long live the weeds & the wilderness yet.
~ Gerald Manley Hopkins

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Waves swirl over a lone rock on the shore at Swordle Bay. The last glimmers of sunlight are reflected in the wet sand in front of it. In the distance, along the horizon You can just see the top of one of the nearby islands (Rum I think but possibly Eigg).

Last Light at Swordle

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View across the bay at Sanna towards Eigg and Rum. The water is crystal clear at the shoreline. There are some clouds in the sky, darkened on the right. There are rocks strewn with seaweed in the foreground.

Sanna, Ardnamurchan

I didn’t take many film images in Ardnamurchan. It was easier in the end to just stick with one camera to lighten my bag. Sanna is special though so on this particular day I took the I-2 too.

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Sunlit marram grasses stretch towards the hills at Sanna in Ardnamurchan. A fence line stretches diagonally from bottom right to the middle distance on the left. The sky over the hills looks faintly overcast but the scene is lifted by bright sunlight.

Sanna, Ardnamurchan

I didn’t take many film images in Ardnamurchan. It was easier in the end to just stick with one camera to lighten my bag. Sanna is special though so on this particular day I took the I-2 too.

#polaroid #instantfilm #believeinfilm #filmisalive #filmwins #womencreating #womensart

Late afternoon in Glencoe. Sunlight hits the hill on the right while the one on the left is cast in shadow. It’s slightly misty, adding to the ethereal fell of this place. There are clouds and blue sky above the hills. A reminder of how quickly the weather can change here. You can hear the echoes of history.

Passage through Glencoe

I’m on my way to the Ardnamurchan Peninsula for a week long creative photography workshop with @rkphotographic.bsky.social
Passing through Glencoe makes you feel as though you are entering another world.
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Today’s early morning stroll: Plaka before Saturday chaos kicks in. Merchants setting up, cats supervising, and me pretending I’m a local with somewhere important to be.

#Greece #SaturdaySunRise #Coloraday #Autumn #womencreating #womensart #Streetphotography #Scape #Blueskyphotography

A celebration of women in photography by the LVII Collective, 27 October to 27 November at FLOW Photofest Wall, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
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#womensart
#flowfest

Loch Lomond, Scotland. A Polaroid image of the loch taken at twilight. The closest mountains that frame the water are in shadow while those behind them still catch the last of the sunlight. Everything is reflected in the water. The colours range from black to dark blue, from a paler blue to white; with just a hint on the left of rose in the sky and in the water. This is how serenity looks.

Twilight

A Land of Light & Shadow

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 6

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Blue hour at Firkin Point, Loch Lomond. The water is glassy smooth and the surrounding hills/mountains and the sky are reflected in it. There is a pebbly beach in the foreground. The pebbles and sand are wet with run off. Branches of some trees edge the frame on the left and right. The tones are predominantly blue, black and pewter. There is a feeling of quiet tranquility.

Into the Blue

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 6

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A jetty stretches out into the waters of Loch Lomond; its reflection cast in the water. In the foreground water lily leaves gently float. It’s quiet and tranquil here.

Jetty

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 5

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Polaroid Diptych of Loch Lomond from the small beach at Duck Bay. Water smooth as glass stretches towards the far shore. On the right are 3 posts rising out of the water. Possible boat moorings as there is a jetty (unseen) further to the right. The sky has a few small elongated clouds hovering over the hills on the far shore. It’s late afternoon when the light turns blue before the sun finally sets.

Blue Hour

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 5

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A Polaroid photo a section of the east coast of Skye sloping down to the sea. The sky is Distant hills are almost obscured by the cloudy sky which seems to merge with the sea. A boat is made tiny by comparison as it travels along the coast.

Where Skye Meets the Sea

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 4

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A Polaroid photo of the landscape of Skye with the Old Man of Storr in the distance. The land lies rugged and crumpled; like a piece of textured fabric. The sky is overcast and the there is a faint pink/purple hue to everything.

The Old Man of Storr

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 4

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A Polaroid image of a field of grass stretching towards a hill in the background. Trees and shrubs cluster around the foot of the hill and wires are strung through wooden fence posts in the foreground. It is a bright sunny scene.

Pastoral II

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 3

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A Polaroid diptych. On the left, an almost abstract image of a hill reflected in the waters of Loch Lomond, layered in green and blue. On the right, a mountain is lit up by late afternoon sun. In the shadowy foreground wildflowers bloom. The image is layered in light and shadow.

A Land of Light & Shadow

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 3

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A green pasture on Skye lit up by sunshine. There is a partially overgrown wooden fence in the foreground. The sky is filled with clouds that also obscure the hills and mountains. Dark green conifers edge the field on the right.

Pastoral

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 2

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A Polaroid Diptych of the Connel Bridge near Oban. Clouds are dotted across the blue sky. Water swirls beneath it. The bridge crosses the Falls of Lora, a tidal race, which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive

Connel Bridge

🍁 Autumn Polaroid Week Day 2

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Polaroid image of Beinn na Caillich on the Isle of Skye. The image is dark and shadowy with the mountain standing out in relief against the sky. In folklore, Cailleach [CAL-yak] is the Queen of Winter, a shadowy figure that is neither good nor evil. A creator of the land and harbinger of Winter.

Cailleach: The Winter Goddess

🍁 Autumn Polaroid Week Day 1

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A Polaroid Diptych of Loch Lomond from Firkin Point. On the left, branches of a fallen tree are silhouetted against the sky and water. The steep hill on the distant shore is in shadow and reflected in the water. On the right, the last of the sun bathes the top of the hill on the far shore in light. The water is like a mirror, smooth and reflecting the sky and hill. The stump of a tree is shown in the foreground.

Exhale

🍁Autumn Polaroid Week Day 1

I don’t have the right words for this place with it’s dark and light.
It claims my soul; and brings me peace at the edge of night.
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Slow shutter image capturing grasses growing in water at the edge of a Loch. The blurred grasses and smooth water flow into one another.

Flow

Slow shutter image of grasses growing at the edge of a Loch.

iPhone 13 Pro

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Polaroid image of Loch Lomond taken at Firkin Point. The water is as smooth as glass and stretches towards distant hills. They appear layered against the sky in this low light. Blue, pewter, silver, black and the merest hint of soft purple colour the scene.

Light slips softly away. Dancing over the water, sweeping gentle fingertips across the hilltops; until they too darken and night claims the earth again.

📸 Polaroid I-2 🎞️ Polaroid Colour I-Type

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View of Loch Lomond from Firkin Point. The clouds are cast in gold and the shore in the foreground takes on a silvery/pewter hue. The distant mountains are reflected in the water. The world narrows to this single viewpoint. Scotland is a thief. She steals your heart. She steals your soul.

Firkin Point, Loch Lomond

Gold above, silver below and a blue fit to tie them both.

iPhone 13 Pro
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View from a cliff top looking along the coastline of Skye. Steep cliffs on the left drop down to a rocky beach below. The water is calm and the sky overcast.

Where Skye meets the Sea

Holga 120CFN & Phoenix 200 combo giving slightly alien colours to Skye’s landscape.

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A distant view of the Old Man of Storr shrouded in mist. A road cuts a path through the centre of the image.

We came across the Old Man of Storr shrouded in mist.

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View of Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. The sky is overcast and the light is flat. Still this 13th century icon makes an impression when you first see it. Shot on film with a Holga 120CFN camera and Harmon Phoenix 200 film.

We’d been driving all day, a million other people were there & the light was going. It’s hard to get an original shot of Eilean Donan Castle; this won’t win any awards. Still, it’s hard to pass an icon & not try.

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