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A Cloudy Landscape (18)
Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 886 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
Well, as you can see, another mountain landscape, which means one thing... I'm back from another holiday and have a lot of catching up to do.

This photo is of Loch Rannoch and a rather cloudy start to the day. Cloud not mist! I wanted to show that even on the most unlikely of days...

It was one of those mornings when you sat there thinking what on earth is there to photo - why even bother getting the camera out. And then came a slight gap in the clouds. On the standard lens, it wasn't worth getting the camera out (see workshop), but on the bigger lens, on full zoom, zooming in on the only patch of anything other than cloud, a much better scene was spotted (even if everyone else didn't see it and could not for the life of them work out what it was I was photoing).

Taken using a tripod, timer and mirror lock up, to try to prevent blurring other than by cloud... I had managed to damage both my UV(0) and Skylight filters at this point, so no filters used...

Converted from RAW, cropped and resized. Contrast has had to be increased.

Hope you like it and tonight I'll start on the catching up...promise.

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Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 886 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)
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Edited by:Aramok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 886 W: 101 N: 1425] (4931)

This is what we were looking at and only by using the full 300mm zoom did I see anything different.