Thursday 2 September 2010: Badcall From The Blue
Made the long journey back to Edinburgh today...and it took all day...
We left Durness at nine, under the most amazing blue cloudless skies. The sheep were still sleeping by the roadside, and the reflections in the water were stunning.
A quick detour down the Kinlochbervie Road, found this amazing view from the hamlet of Badcall across some lochans, looking towards Assynt.
Blip...done...thought there were other contenders. This is with polariser, and i've added a deep yellow filter...but that is what the sky was like.
An hour later saw MrsCyclops and I in a lay-by in Assynt, taking photos and singing along to Glee with the car doors open. Not sure what the sheep made of it.
All in all it was a great drive and a great trip. We cgot to Inverness just in time for the train...which was where it all went wrong, with the train restricted in speed by an engine failure, which also KO'd the air conditioning and lights in our carriage. Oppressive heat, and overdose of Sports Mix and a strobe effect with the sun through the track-side leaves and I was migrainy and sick. Bleurgh.
The train arrived in Edinburgh 50 minutes late...and had time for a quick dash home before going out to a leaving do for three colleagues... victims of the circumstances, but heads held high.
Sorry for the lack of comments recently...must do better. Unstaged is looking great though isn't it?
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Canon EOS 7D : f/10.0 : 1/400" : 15mm : ISO 100
Comments
Love this! :o)
~ graciepix
What a day. Cloudless sky. What a lovely place.
~ Gillipaw
love those colours
~ orchid99
superb!.. such clarity
~ shameless
Cool view - sorry about the crappy train journey though - sounds total pants.
PS Yay Glee!
~ horrigans
we are sooo lucky to live a country this beautiful.
last time i got stuck on a train they plied us full of drink - by the time we got to inverness we didn't care that we were 3 hours late - result! :-)
~ tadpole
Looks like it could have been taken last century, no the century before...
~ Willis
I could just sit here and look at this all night. What a scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ shutterbugsue
That's just fabulous. Just is.
~ pensioner
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