Freshwater Bay

A few shots from a walk we took yesterday to Freshwater bay:

Smoke Art

Photo of the week #52: As my final entry in my photo of the week challenge, I decided to try shooting the smoke from a stick of burning incense. I had been planning to try taking these photos for quite some time now but never actually seemed to get around to doing it:


You may have noticed that this blog post is very late. I have to admit that I had a really hard time motivating myself to post these photos (even though the photo was actually taken at it's proper potw time). Maybe I'm a little sad to be finishing up this challenge - despite having to really force myself to carry on with the challenge sometimes it has been very helpful to me overall. In fact, I would definitely recommend a potw challenge to anyone who is looking for a bit of inspiration.

Currently, I'm taking a bit of a break from photo challenges. It's been a very busy few months for me both photo-wise and otherwise and so it's nice to de-stress a little. I do have plans for another challenge starting in the new year though that should still be challenging, but in a different way than the photo of the week. Stay tuned!

Finally, as a bonus, I'll end with another smoke shot:

Fall Colors 2010

Photo of the week #51: This is a shot that I took at Bowring park a few weeks ago. I'm actually dealing with quite a backlog of photos at the moment but I'll try to catch up as soon as possible!


Here's a few bonus shots from the same day:

Lonely Tree

Photo of the week #50: Another shot from the sunset at Loch Alsh on the last day of our photo tour in Skye:

Even though this is a very simple shot, it's one of my favorites from the photo tour!

Sunset over Loch Alsh

View across Loch Alsh on the last evening of our photo tour. This shot was taken with Eilean Donan Castle at my back - everywhere you looked in Scotland there was something beautiful to photograph!

A few close up shots:

The Old Man of Storr

A couple more sunrise shots from Skye. This shot was taken after a fairly challenging hike (This shot by Geoff gives an idea of how far we actually had to climb - the hike took approximately an hour and was quite steep in places). Both the weather and the landscape was amazing though, totally worth the effort!

This second shot was taken next to the small puddle that you can see in the center right side of first photo:

Bonus shots from Elgol

I'm slowing making my way though all the photos we shot while in Scotland. Here are a few bonus shots that I took while watching the sunrise at Elgol. They're both good examples of why you should also look around you instead of just focusing on the sunrise/sunset :)