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Return of the Vacation Blog

Apr 13, 2014 21:57

When last we left our intrepid heros, they had just finished visiting the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. In what turns out to be a horrible track-record or keeping up with my vacation blog, I must be getting close to the point of being about eight months behind on the whole thing ( Read more... )

united kingdom, argyll, loch, vacation, seagulls, travel, castle, fyne, scotland, greenock, photo, inveraray

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mebil April 14 2014, 07:17:47 UTC

Awesome photos. More please.

kfops April 15 2014, 11:38:41 UTC

Oh, don't worry.... there are definitely more photos! Perhaps sifting through them all is a different thing altogether.

Each day of the trip I averaged between 300 and 500 images, though of course many of them are throw-away quality. I actually really like taking photos as we travel from place to place so that I can have a good record of what the landscape is like, instead of just focusing on "castle, castle, castle, graveyard, castle..."

I probably make things slightly more difficult for myself because I also shoot in RAW, so I have to do a certain amount of processing on most shots. It does provide me with a lot of flexibility if I have to work an image to get it back in the event of underexposing or the like, but it all adds time.

I have received some subtle hints that it would be good to have these photos done before our next trip (Alaska) as my best beloved would like to actually have a photo album printed!

mebil April 15 2014, 03:12:27 UTC

Do you have sea gulls in the your neck of the frozen tundra? We don't have Lions Mane Jellyfish in Indiana. *pout* They look cool. Never seen them before (I think).

kfops April 15 2014, 11:41:58 UTC

Oh yes, we've got seagulls! We didn't really have them in the area that I grew up, but in Winnipeg we definitely do. Sometimes it takes a little bit to realise that we're not that far from the ocean ("Manitoba: We're Not Landlocked"), and we have a straight shot north to Lake Winnipeg.

Jellyfish on the other hand, I have no personal experience with here. I'd hazard a guess that we don't, but the lakes are big and mysterious and you never know when a new invasive species will show up.

The Lions Mane jelly was huge, though apparently they do not make good swimming companions.

porsupah April 18 2014, 17:04:22 UTC

I know I'd never let go of my camera bag, which is like a boat anchor.

"He died the way he lived". =:) Mmm, bags can certainly get hefty.. the landscapes up on Lapinity, f'rex, were taken with a bag rather overladen (just a plain laptop bag, then! Really not recommended) with Dandelion (my 17" MBP then), my first iPad, the D90, Nikkor 300mm f/4D, and Nikkor 28-80mm. Felt a bit odd clambering up some of those precarious slopes with all that in tow, but WTH. =:D

Rather a cool pano, even with the waviness at some points. Or was that the photographer? =:)

also a very nifty looking parish church

I should upload a shot or two of the little chapel I viewed a couple months back. Nothing planet-stopping, but just rather pleasant to regard.

The jail itself is now a living museum instead of a lock-up, having been rescued from obscurity in 1989Now, that's rather a novel venture for a private company. Presumably it's worked out ( ... )