Foggy Start To a Beautiful Scottish Day

Weather forecast for Monday morning was clear sunny weather for Central Scotland.

I had it planned, get out of bed at 6.30AM, and head out to Loch Achray on ther road to Aberfoyle in the Trossachs, I wanted to find an East to West running Loch to catch the sun coming up.

The good old British Met office had screwed up again, I hit Frozen Fog and temps of -5 C early into my journey, this dampened the spirits to the point where I began to argue with my Sat Nav as to which was the quickest way.

My only shot from Loch Achray was looking back from its banks to the Trossachs Church.

Great captures

I like the one with the bench - very scenic.

Stacie

Now,that was a complete disaster Scottie.
I was working in Glasgow and the day went from bad to...very very bad.
At one point you came in my head,i tought,that poor guy will be up from the crack of dawn and thats what he will get?
They never predicted the fog accuratelly,thats where all went wrong.

At least you came back with some...i would call them...at least extremelly good photos.

Did you use any kind of filters ? or the light was such that you didn`t need to.

That #4 is just stunning.

#3 is my favourite ...

Some nice images but #2 is stunning, the light through the trees...

Those were the thoughts that entered my head Dimitri as I sat praying the Fog would lift from the Loch Dimitri

As I mentioned the good old British Met office must be full of Old Whisky drinkers, I'm still waiting on this really cold winter they predicted we'd get this year

dv2004 wrote:
At least you came back with some...i would call them...at least extremelly good photos.

Thanks Being up in the Hillside when the sun began to break through the thick fog was just amazing.

dv2004 wrote:
Did you use any kind of filters ? or the light was such that you didn`t need to.

That #4 is just stunning.

Thanks again, As yet I have no filters for my 17-40L , so what you see is what I saw

Nice work Scott, really like the last three images and the first - possibly check the levels on the church, you could possibly increase the blacks and the white's slightly to help the contrast.

Buggbairn wrote:
Thanks again, As yet I have no filters for my 17-40L , so what you see is what I saw

Well,that 17-40 looks like a very good peace of glass,i can imagine what you will get with that and the filters on a cloudy day.
Awesome...

Thanks for the advice

I'm not quite up to speed with my post-processing, I hope along with my photography this will improve over time and practice.

Feel free to edit the image as I love to learn

dv2004 wrote:
Well,that 17-40 looks like a very good peace of glass,i can imagine what you will get with that and the filters on a cloudy day.
Awesome...

The 17-40L certainly feels & behaves like a nice lens, hopefully with my new filters I'll be able to justify my need for such a nice piece of glass

On another subject, aren't the Bugs getting rather large around Scotland.

the second is my favorite...
sari.

You captured the day very well Scottie ... can feel the cold coming out my monitor Like them all for one reason or another, but especially the church and #5.

Thanks to everyone who has posted, I guess there was some success from what started as a very bleak looking day

Jackie

Thanks for the compliments, the shot of the Church was the best I could get from what was a bit of a disasterous location.

I was about to "Spit the dummy" as they say and head home, If I had those other shots and many more simply wouldn't have existed.

I learnt a big lesson today about not giving up

Great shots Scottie. Beautiful country. I love to see the country side that you and Dimitri shot.