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Explore #10 28/08/16
I was about to post up some stuff from Skye, as is always the way your latest trip seems to eclipse the last one as it is fresh in the memory and certain things get lost for a while. An email regarding this image jogged my memory as I wanted to post this on here, this was another shot just before a sea storm at St Monans in Fife, the irregular shaped breakwater standing up to absolutely everything that is thrown at it by nature, hence the title.
B/W to my mind is perfectly suited to this sort of stuff to accentuate shape and is normally something I'd go for here but the colours were appealing at the time of shooting this so this (sadly) became a bit of an afterthought, however the more I look at it I think I prefer this one for many different reasons, the stormy skies being absolutely ideal for this type of shot.
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"Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice" A reprocessed shot, initial processing was a lot more muted but on revisiting I wanted to show more of the colours especially on the sunny side of the sea wall. I'll be right beside you dear
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Another from the dawn trip to deepest darkest Fife and the beautiful village of St.Monans and its infamous zig zag breakwater. The title refers to the rough sea outside the harbour wall and the smoother calmer water inside.
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Another from Fife, with surprise surprise yet another July sea storm brewing over the East Lothian area and heading toward the Fife Coast. A different take on it from the last one, with the long length of the jetty here I wanted to try a portrait format shot as well as it looked really good in camera, bit longer of an exposure with a 3 stop grad used for the sky, by the time I'd taken this and packed up for the climb down the ladder the rain was just starting to arrive, so a result, and a quick run back to the car on the harbour.... Berwick Law can be seem to the rear.
I'd thought about a black and white version for this but with the contrasty storm light the colours were pretty punchy so seems a waste to lose that for this one.
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An extra long exposure shot at the squinty pier on the waterfront at St Monans.
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A long exposure, landscape image of the zigzag pier at St. Monan's harbour in Fife, Scotland.
The final in a series of images from this location. I...
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This is my last photograph from a series I took at St Monans last week (I promise!) In this image, I have faced slightly back towards the Fife coast...
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One of the locations I really wanted to visit on my recent visit up to the Fife coastline in Scotland was this wonderful zig zag breakwater wall and...
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Another shot of the squinty pier, called 'The Blocks', at St Monans given the long exposure treatment.
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An early and chilly start to capture this sunrise at St Monans, Fife, Scotland.
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It seems a good while since I've done anything meaningful in Scotland, the first location in Aberdour was a total washout with the rain appearing from nowhere, in fact in 4 days in Fife I must have seen about 7 or 8 unpredictable sea storms just come rolling in. This was early evening and another is making it's way towards the East Neuk of Fife so I had to really rush to get here and set up before it hit, in the end I managed about 20 minutes of shooting here before yet again the entire area went black and the rains came, this would be the only day where I could do this location due to the weather and tides combining so I was made up to come away with some images of it at last, this time the storms working in my favour instead of against me.
Anyone who's shot this location will know how tricky it is balancing yourself and all your stuff on the narrow wall in the wind, with a concrete floor behind you and the sea in front it isn't somewhere you want to be falling off....
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Took a trip to St. Monans and Elie yesterday for another go at the Breakwater.
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An old shot that I hadn't got around to until now. The early start paid off handsomely and we were rewarded with a spectacular sunrise
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Took a trip to St. Monans and Elie yesterday for another go at the Breakwater.
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No visit to St. Monans is complete without shooting the Zig Zag breakwater, kind of like going to Glencoe and not shooting the Buachaille.
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Saint Monans,Scotland
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The breakwater harbour wall to St Monans' harbour
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This is one of the most photographed pieces of landscape in Scotland. I’m not sure what the attraction is to this particular object. I know the shape...
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A monochrome, square crop of the magnificently photogenic, zig-zag harbour wall at St Monans, Fife, Scotland.
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A focus stacked, long exposure, landscape image of the Zig Zag seawall at St. Monans in Fife, Scotland, on a sunny, spring day.
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In this alternate view from the harbour wall at St Monans, Fife can be seen two "lumps" on the horizon. The one on the left is Bass Rock - a small...
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I've recently been told that my use of the term "Squinty Pier" to describe this architectural landscape feature is incorrect. I thought the term...
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Another shot from St. Monans Pier the other day, this one taken before sunrise.
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the zig zag breakwater catch the last of the golden light at St. Monans in Fife
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St Monan's breakwater at sunset in Fife.
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