Two images from Southern Scotland on Monday. I haven't felt like getting out with my camera recently. Firstly the weather has been wet, cold, windy and dull plus both my wife and myself succumbed to a virus that lasted for 10 days. Monday looked not too bad but my local area has been hit by floods with many of the streams breaking their banks so Southern Scotland looked pretty good. This area is less than an hours drive and with the recent rain should be good. Unfortunately my multiple weather apps were wrong and the 2-3 hours with little or no rain were in reality light then heavy rain. I did manage 2 different shots from the same 200ft waterfall but I had to shelve my plans to hike up to top falls as the light just faded. It is 4:30 here and pitch dark and anytime after 3:30 is twilight. This is The Grey Mare's Tail, the 4th tallest waterfall in Scotland at 200ft, not big by US standards but still worth photographing. It is now impossible to get to the foot of the falls. On my last visit I tried to climb around a small landslide that had removed the footpath and on this visit further landslides have removed lots of the path and climbing round it is far too dangerous on a bright dry day and on this wet and windy day plain stupid.
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This is the path in to the base of the falls but 20ft round the bend it has slipped 50ft down into the river.
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The falls from a distance this was taken at 02:45 and already with no filters the exposure was ISO 100, f11, 0.3s. Standing there trying to decide whether to explore further up the glen it started to really rain and the wind was shaking the camera on a tripod. That night the wind was gusting to 65mph and in the far North West up to 95mph. Ken
