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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Some woodland peace and forest bathing in the cathedral of green, amongst ivy clad maple, beech and oak. The scent of flowering wild garlic overpoweringly fresh and full of life. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #Forest #green #spring #garlic #woodland #ForestBathing #peace #scotland #landscape #FineArt #Woods

A stroll through the wild flowering garlic in West Lothian, scotland, morning light seeping through the windows of the forest.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

'Tis better to travel in hope than to arrive. Grabbing what I could rather than what I might. My evening location plans abandoned when I saw this wee tree and tor. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #moor #trees #tree #Highlands #Ardnamurchan

A windswept tree clings to the leeward side of a small tor of volcanic rock, in the caldera of what was once a super volcano in Ardnamurchan.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Single track roads with grass down the middle, rusty gates tied with rope, down the track, across the ankle breaking rocky beach and arrive at low tide, totally by luck. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #beach #coastal #Ardnamurchan #sand

Heavier dark sand patterns left in the outwash flow of a white sand Scottish beach, looking out to the Inner Hebrides and the Isle of Eigg.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Just what I needed. Peace; losing track of time; mossy boulders; fresh leaves; mighty oaks; myriad greens; bryophytes and epiphytes. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #woods #rainforest #Ardnamurchan #Strontian #Sunart

Ancient woods in the fragments of the Old Caledonian Rainforest. A place the Vikings found and harvested the oaks from and yet, still standing today, just as it always has done. This is an ancient part of Ardnamurchan and Sunart

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A storm passing through over Loch Sunart, starting my trip last week with some drama. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #sunart #Ardnamurchan #Strontian #Landscapephotography #storm

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I wonder if an x-pan format shows up on #Bluesky? Anyway, I've been after this shot for years, but I never seem to have the right lens. Did this time though :-) Scotland's version of Horseshoe Bend. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Rannoch

A wide angle view of the River Coupal at the Bookle!

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A postcard shot from just before I was struck down with an 'orrible cold - not been outside since! Stuck in my house drinking Lemsip, planning adventures! www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #tree #autumn #colour #color

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I’ve walked this route quite a few times. It passes a series of waterfalls but this is my favourite. It feels like a primeval forest glade to me. The ferns!!! www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #tree #autumn #colour #color

Polypody and/or spleenwort ferns hanging from the walls of a natural rock cut pit, shaped by a waterfall.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A carefree wander about with the camera yesterday, photographing whatever came up my hump, with no plans and no pressure. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #seascape #mono #NorthBerwick #fineart #Scotland #nature

Craigleith Island from North Berwick at high tide.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Projects rarely do well on social media, but, I find them so rewarding. “The Kiss of the Cailleach”, is my homage to the state of winter where I live over the years. www.andymacd.co.uk/projects/cai... Let me know what you think. #fineart #landscapephotography #intimatelandscape #winter #ice #cold

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THE KISS OF THE CAILLEACH | Andy MacDougall

A project about ice in my local area, highlighting the impact of climate change.

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Dylan Nardini @dylannardini.com · 05/12/2025

Shelter. Leadhills, 2023. #Scotland #Photography

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And with the wild weather of this week, I think that might be the last of the autumn. Snow and ice next please! www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #tree #autumn #colour #color

The last autumn leaves clinging to a tree amongst the old man's beard lichens

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I have no issue with "honeypots", but The Hermitage is now getting so hammered with footfall - I think this will be my last shot from there for a while. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #tree #autumn #colour #color

The old Bridge at the Hermitage - queues to go walking in this place stretch down the dual carriage way. It's location that a few years ago was quite all the time and mostly only known to locals. Last year 88,000 people visited. This year over 350,000. It's under intolerable pressure.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Some more woodland goodness from Rothiemurchus, by the banks of Loch Morlich. Even a broken tree is valued in a #wood. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #tree #autumn #colour #color #Rothiemurchus #LochMorlich

A broken limb sprawls on the floor, the tree damaged and broken by high winds. And yet mosses, lichens and fungi thrive on it. Trees are of such value at all ages and conditions.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Gah! I forgot when I posted this at the weekend that it would be my Monday competition shot. So, apologies, a repost. #ShareMondays2025 #FSprintMonday

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

As the autumn changes, the yellows and oranges subside and the browns, coppers and reds have a last hoorah, before they fall and leave us waiting for snow. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #autumn #colour #color

The last of the rich autumn colours in my local wood. The leaves were falling at some rate!

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I big old beast of a tree at Loch Morlich - I couldn't resist it amongst that riot of colour. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #autumn #colour #color

I giant of the woods surrounded by bright foliage and orange bracken.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

More from my amazing misty mission in Rothiemurchas! What a morning that was - hours of just the right amount of visible atmosphere. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #loch #lake #mist #Rothiemurchas #Cairngorm

A veil of mist over the loch with just the brightness of birch trunks and autumn foliage peeking through.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

"Serendipity". A last minute change of plan and an unexpected photo, but you have to be out and about to spot these things. One I think for my portfolio. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #loch #lake #mist #bluehour

Blue hour at a Scottish loch. Low level fog, blue hour and the silhouette of Scots pines, Nordic pines and birch trees.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Sometimes, you find a scene that makes you grin! The pop of yellow colour from the birches, the wisps of lingering mist, the texture in the bark of the pines. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #loch #lake #mist

Colourful autumn birches in a pine forest by the banks of a mist shrouded Scottish Loch

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Autumn colour was peaking near Aviemore last week. I was there to wander round the Rothiemurchas Forest but even the little local roads were looking resplendent. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #roadside #colour

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What a great morning of photography at this loch last week -the mist lingered for hours! I was like a kid in a sweet shop. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #Autumn #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #loch #lake #mist

A birch tree in autumn foliage by the banks of a misty loch.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Felt great to be out with the camera again the other day. A foggy morning so my mind turned to this location - I've been trying to photograph it in fog for 7 years! www.AndyMacD.co.uk #Landscapephotography #nature #lothians #landscape #scotland #Autumn #fog #fineart

An avenue of autumnal beech trees in the fog.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A portfolio through to the last 18% and 2 images into the pre-finals - not a bad go of it in the Natural Landscape Photography Awards this year. Anything in the top 10% at the level of that competition is a boost to the ego! #landscapephotography #natural #photography

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Summer is difficult and I tend to either shoot less or retreat to the woods. So this one is from yesterday, photographing my favourite tree, in my favourite wood, before heading to the pub for some afternoon beers. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #Landscapephotography #nature #woods #landscape #scotland

Summer greens in full swing in a small wood near my home.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Good to back on the wheel again today. A wonky teapot from too soft reclaimed (last years disasters and trimmings) clay. I had no right managing to do this after not touching the wheel for 8 months. #potter #pottery #ceramics #AmatuerPotter #Clay #Wheel #wheelthrown

My pottery “season” is April to September (pottery shed is not freezing then) but I’ve started a bit late this year. I try to run a zero waste pottery, all disasters are recycled back into throwable clay, so the first job each year is taking all of last years minging slop bucket contents and reconstituting it into a usable lump. 9kg of it this year, horrible job, but done last weekend and today I got back on the wheel for the first time in 8 months or so. Usually I start with a cup, which collapses and gets recycle again as I try to remember how to throw.

This year though I dove straight in and amazingly managed to throw a tea pot from my first kilo of clay which wasn’t really firm enough yet to do anything this ambitious with. A round bellied out jar form (not perfect but not bad for a first go) with galleried lid, a lid with a closed form knob thrown in one piece, and a spout from 100g of the trimmed off and rewedged, and by now very soft, lid clay. Nothing went in the bucket, hard to believe. Maybe this is going to be a good pottery season! Assembly, trimming and handle pulling next in a couple, of days.

Nice to get back into it

“You centre the clay, while the clay centres you”

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

An unusual version of a well known spot - love this.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Taken last month when I was walking through the Edzell Gorge. The North Esk River cutting a furrow through the rock, while sunlight tries to penetrate the foliage of overhanging beech and oak. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #Landscapephotography #nature #lothians #landscape #scotland #spring

Sunlight and water flooding the Edzell Gorge.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It's the time of year for handling predominantly green shots and unpicking the puzzles of the woods, so with it raining today, I visited my favourite copse. Calling it "This way to Criss Cross" www.AndyMacD.co.uk #Sharemondays2025 #Landscapephotography #nature #woods #landscape #scotland #spring

An ancient wood in the central belt of Scotland, full of native species and birdlife. Extremely verdant today in the springtime rain.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sunshine at Kinclaven Wood - the bluebells looked like they were starting to wilt and there has been no rain since. This is one of the driest spells I can remember - over a month since it rained. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #bluebells #spring

Dappled light deep in the famous bluebell wood at Kinclaven in Perthshire.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A bluebell wood on Monday. Very sunny and dappled light makes woodland photography difficult, so I played around with the buttery colour cast of my 1970s lenses and a shallow DoF. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #bluebells #spring

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A wee dose of mono 'cos I just couldn't cope with it being so sunny this week. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #beach #coast

Mono image of St Cyrus beach in Angus. A mile or so of solitude.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It’s been ages since I was out and about photographing. Life gets in the way of art sometimes, but out this week I remembered how much I love taking photographs. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Spring

A bridge in an Angus Glen in a phenomenal valley with amazing geology.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A long lens shot near Ben Wyvis, from the holiday home garden a few years ago, with a glass of wine in my left hand - exposing for that setting and mostly obscured sun. #LandscapePhotography #sunset #Scotland #NaturalPhotography #Outdoors #Landscape #Nature www.AndyMacD.co.uk

Setting sun and a lone tree at Ben Wyvis

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A transportation back in time, reminding me of my mothers story (see Alt Text) www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature

Out for a wander with my mate Tim of Irisone photography last month, we got the perfect amount of see haar rolling up the Forth - I don't really think of this as a landscape image but the image felt important to me, rolling me back in time as a poignant reminder of a story my mother told me.

My mother remembered the 16th of October 1939, when the first dogfight of WW2 took place above the beaches at Aberlady. She was a 7 year old evacuee, and was with her 5 year old sister on the beach, with bullets from the planes riddling up the sand just a few yards from them as they ran for cover. Imagine that grim and frightening realisation that the war was real, for two wee girls. The German fighters were shot down, and my Mum remembered a local proudly wearing the wrist watch of one of the pilots who had "greatfully" given him it for rescuing him from the waters of the Forth. Other airmen weren't so fortunate. Rosyth was bombed during that attack and the first casualties in Britain occurred but it was kept out of the papers, in case it damaged morale. It's always amazed me, that my mother was just a couple of yards from being that first unlucky statistic. Playing on the beach, thankfully dodging the bullets...

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

3 images through to final shortlist of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards this year - The third in The Environment category www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature

Fog rolling over a reservoir at dusk, with half submerged trees reflecting on the still waters.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

3 images through to final shortlist of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards this year - The second in The Natural Abstract category www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature

A frozen twig on the surface of a reservoir - a wee sprig of frost on it's tip. Magic.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I've been absent of late due to "life". But I did get some good news recently! 3 images through to final shortlist of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards this year - The first in The Landscape category www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Looking at these two, I reckon that long ago another tree stood there and these two have grown from a nursery log when it fell. Time in Glen Affric is not measured in human years… www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Woodland #trees #woods

Twin trees (beech I think), slowly dance around each other in Glen Affric.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Cleat, taken from the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye - superb morning light well worth the early rise. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #Skye

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A bit of an older one this, taken on my first DSLR - my trusty Canon 40D. Prints out plenty big. By golly I was keen back then - 3am I got up for this one on my first visit to the Quiraing in 2013. 3 am!!!! www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature

Getting up near mid summer at mental o'clock to get a picture of the Quiraing on Skye at sunrise. Full of energy and optimism back in 2013 I actually made myself ill on this trip, through lack of sleep and picking up a virus, but I kept soldiering on taking pictures.

I wouldn't do it now - I'd go in the winter and hope I can get some sleep.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Spring evening, on a rare occasion where I knew exactly where I was going and got there in plenty time. One of the most relaxing shots I've ever done. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #風景写真ふうけいしゃしん #スコットランド #Escócia #FotografiaDePaisagem

A prominent lone tree, behind the ruins of an old sheep pen as sunset approached.

Unrushed landscape photography in predictable and stable conditions - is this what it feels like for landscape photographers outside Scotland? Landscape photography here is typically frantically adjusting to changing light and weather while trying to keep the camera dry and the photographer warm.

I wouldn't have it any other way, it's so educational and exhilarating, but now and then it's lovely to be able to slow down and drink it all in.

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Familiarity. I’ve looked at this scene often, knowing I wanted light on the viaduct. So zooming past, I took a moment just to check & there it was. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature #風景写真ふうけいしゃしん #スコットランド #Escócia #FotografiaDePaisagem

The viaduct near Mallaig, every time I pass I stop and consider its potential. I knew that it just needed some light in the right place, so when I was in a rush and passing by, late for a ferry, I took just a minute to check it out. There was the light that had been missing all the times before. I had to shoot it. So I did.

And I still made the ferry.

This image got shortlisted in one of the national Landscape Photographer Of The Year competitions (though I can’t remember which one right now), so it was worth the 3 minutes it took to grab it 😁

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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

As the years pass I’m getting worse and worse at heights, but I think I’m still OK enough for now. This taken from a swaying rope bridge, high above a gorge, while leaning out over the rope on the side. www.AndyMacD.co.uk #WaterfallWednesday #landscape #photography #fineart #Scotland #nature

The only way to get this shot was to hold my camera at arms length, while leaning over the rope that formed the edge of the somewhat “ bouncy” rope bridge at Corrieshalloch Gorge. A slowish shutter speed was hard to get hand held, but after quite a few goes, I got a sharp one. I’ll admit I was quite glad to move on.

Loved the contrast of leaf colour and rock. It had to be done.

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