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If You Don’t Succeed The First Time . . .

Black Cottage, Scotland
Black Cottage, Scotland

This is one of those iconic images of Scotland.  It’s the famous Black Cottage.  There is always a photographer or two there shooting this little cottage.  They key is getting it at the right time of say with light and clouds.  And, as was the norm for this trip to Scotland everything fell into place on the third try.  This is a hrs place to shoot and requires a bit of post processing work to balance foreground and background and make it all look good.  I have a large print of this and it is stunning. Shot on a Phase One IQ180 it has amazing detail.

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A Bit Abstract

Old Metal Building, Scotland
Old Metal Building, Scotland

So, as you can see I have been working on my Scotland images this past week.  I’ll be doing another trip to Scotland in the fall of 2014 to lead a workshop to Skye.  This was actually shot in Scotland and is of a side of a fishing shack that my friend Steve Gosling and I stumbled upon.  There was peeling paint, moss, and rust.  All the ingredients that I need to satisfy my photographic desires.  Sometimes something simple like this just works.