First snow of the year:
A “color” version:
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I think it’s possible to export cube files to add a LUT to the RAW files in Darktable but haven’t tried to see how it looks.
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Dare I say Fuji-like! Certainly, I like…
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Though most weren’t so great, probably because I underexposed
Lots of older buildings are torn down in our area to make space for newer, larger ones. This one caught my eye because it was very sad to see that someone’s former room (could be a child’s room, given the mural) was so exposed and destroyed, the bird being the only reminder now, ‘facing the beast’ coming for it, without a chance.
The 2nd picture was take 2 days after the 1st.
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The first one is a great candidate for “People without people”
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So we went up to Craigallachie and stayed at the Highlander Inn on a deal.
A room for two nights at £250, and a credit of £50 per night per person, which can only be spent on whisky in the bar. On night 1, I went for their own bottlings flight:
Not so Secret Speyside, 10 years old, 54.9%
Tullibardine, 18yo, 54,5%
Secret Speyside, 10yo, 55.8%
Gleny Wyvis, 6 yo, 61.8%
Glen Grant, 17 yo, 53.4%
Glen Garioch, 22 yo, 57.8%
On night 2 I went for the Variety of Peat Smoke flight:
Hakushu Distiller’s Reserve
Balvenie “Week of Peat”, 14yo
Glen Allachie “Meikle Toir”, 5yo
Kilchoman 20th Anniversar, 18yo
Laphroaig, 10yo
Ardbeg Uigeadail
I had a little time and steadiness to take some pictures. We got to Lossiemouth about sunset (15:30!)
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Howdy! Been a minute…I once again haven’t much to offer in terms of help, or any good questions…but I can say that I’m getting excited about the new release this month.
Learning how to utilize darktable has been so gratifying, and all of you have in one way or another been an influence, a great source of help, and a teacher.
Here’s a set of photos from earlier this week…I had an opportunity to get out last month to scout this waterfall, but didn’t have sufficient light to take advantage of it. Earlier this week I had an opportunity to get out to it again.
All edited in dt 5.0 windows.
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This morning, I noticed an approaching slow train just as I crossed the tracks, so pulled over to capture a few frames. Points and a passing loop immediately after the level crossing, so the speed is down to 15km/h. Two locomotives and a whole heap of coal wagons - probably around 1.3km in length; plenty of heat haze but the subject was well-isolated because I still had the 150-600mm mounted from yesterday.
edit: mistakenly uploaded full-res 24MP; now corrected.
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So, after a whisky evening at the Highlander, we took a trip down the coast. We stopped in Port Soy, which seemed to be close. A couple of pictures, then we went down to Fraserburgh.
It was a little late when we got there, but we happened upon the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. We thought it would be a place to get out of the rain for five minutes, but it was wonderful, and we stayed for the full tour, and went inside the old Kinnaird lighthouse itself, and up as far as the light itself.
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Trying to practice my panning technique. In retrospect, maybe geese and ducks are not the best thing to start out on. Something that only moves along one axis would probably be easier to get crisp.
Still, there is something I like about this image (not sure exactly what yet).
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Participated at a workshop called “ballerina in an abandoned place”:
It was great fun despite to very poor weather conditions and I think I learned a bit about how to direct actors around … which is not very much like me at all.
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How was the 6yo GlenWyvis? At 6 years and 61.8%, on paper it looks like a good paint thinner. 
I’m more of a smoke guy, and have on hand or at least tried all of the peaty whiskies except the Hakushu Distiller’s Reserve. I really haven’t found a Japanese whisky I love. How was this one?
Surprisingly good. It is a fairly new distillery, it only opened in 2015. Add on 3 years and a day, then they only produced their first whisky in 2018.
Me too.
My wife had a Japanese whisky flight, she found all of them lacking in the layering one gets in a good Scotch whisky. I found the Hakushu one the same, yes it was peaty, but there was nothing else.
We dropped into the Glen Allachie distillery on the way home, and tried the most highly-peated of their Meikle Tòir. You get a lot of complexity from the peat and the mixture of casks that they use. This is what the Japanese whiskies seem to lack.
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The third picture: Vanishing in a big hole…
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Possibly the line and the blue-orange contrast? I like it, too.
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