Recent content by Ken Rennie

I have found images taken within 10 paces of a road. I have a friend who called these "Cavalier" shots because she could take them standing beside her car a Vauxhall (A British offshoot of GM) Cavalier. All from Scotland Buachaille Etive Mor A small Lochan in Glencoe Seiebost Beach, Isle of...

Loch Morlich lies under the Cairngorm mountains. When we arrived the wind was calm and the rain/ snow had stopped I had weather radar on my phone and waited for what I hoped was heavy snow, it was snow but tiny flakes that do not show up well in photographs. I did find a nice view at 200mm on...

Last. week we spent 4 days in the highlands. We almost cancelled the trip as the forecast looked like 4 days of rain/ sleet/ snow but in the end we wrapped up well and went. I am starting with a series of high key landscapes taken in the Cairngorm mountains. There are 4 peaks above 4,000 ft...

Pink and blue from NE England coast Orange and blue from Cumbria The faintest touch of yellow in the grasses and lots of blue from Cumbria Orange Kelp and lots of blue from Skye

A phone shot from today in the North of Scotland. Ken

Another 3 from Fountains Abbey. Spring is showing in multiple ways, firstly people aren't wearing winter coats, the daffodils are out and that lovely first flush of foliage has appeared on some of the trees, if you look closely between the 2 trees you will see a swan sitting on its nest, the...

I was in Yorkshire on Wednesday and had a few hours spare so visited Fountains Abbey a ruined 12thC Abbey. At its height in the 13thC it house 400 monks and 800 lay brothers and even in its present ruined state it is awe inspiring. It was a very rich Abbey up until 1539 and the dissolution of...

A pheasant, perhaps the most stupid bird in nature. Despite their colourful plumage, they hide well until they spot you, then they make very loud noises and take off flying straight, low and slow, just perfect for people who are not good shots. Native of Asia but introduced to Western Europe by...

I have taken to be very local. All images taken on walks of less than 2 miles from home. Ken

Thank you Jameel

Thank you Alan. Unfortunately we have a little storm coming through, nothing dangerous but 50+mph winds and heavy driving rain has flattened the crocuses but the daffodils seem to have survived, perhaps tomorrows snow might kill them off too. Ken

I had been using the trial version of Helicon Focus but my time has passed so I used Photoshop for these. 70 60Mp files as photoshop layers slows my fairly high end computer down but Helicon is much faster with better output especially with more complex images. Ken

All focus stacked, some with as many as 70 images. Unfortunately a slight breeze has taken the edge off of the sharpness but I think that they are still interesting. The next 3 are from very short lived conditions with me trying to get the images captured before the morning sun melted the...

I will continue with the arch part of March but in French. This is le Pont d'Arc in the Ardeche region of Southern France a 170ft high natural arch over the Ardeche river. Ken Finally an early morning shot, Unfortunately I have lost the original RAW file and am just left with this small jpeg.

After weeks of drab, wet, cloudy and windy weather Spring almost arrived today. The wind died down, but didn't stop and the sun came out after a light frost. These are 3 different crops from a series of 34 focus stacked images using the auto focus stacking capabilities of the A7RV and a Sigma...