Finn's Slough, Richmond BC

[Islesfan91]

found this photo I took last year while I was trying to get better with Lightroom and decided to touch it up a little bit. Not sure I love the end result, but I do like it and may tweak it again

 

[weepete]

I do. That's a cracking shot mate, nice elements, interesting stuff in it, nice colour pallette, lovely sky, nice directional golden light, foreground, middle ground and distance elements, leading lines and niceley framed. A difficult shot to pull off being so busy but a very good job and one that I like a LOT!

 

[Islesfan91]

Wow, thank you very much! I'll be on your country in two weeks and can't wait to fill up the memory card with photos of Scotland! Appreciate the kind words very much!

 

[weepete]

No worries mate. Scotland has some cracking scenery and there's more than a few oppertunities in the towns as well. We've quite a few islands and a lot of coastline. Weather Has has been allright so far this year (last year was the best I remember) and it's looking promising if the amount of sunshine in the last week or so is anything to go buy (over here you can never count on the weather!).

Where abouts will you be headed to?

 

[Islesfan91]

No worries mate. Scotland has some cracking scenery and there's more than a few oppertunities in the towns as well. We've quite a few islands and a lot of coastline. Weather Has has been allright so far this year (last year was the best I remember) and it's looking promising if the amount of sunshine in the last week or so is anything to go buy (over here you can never count on the weather!).

Where abouts will you be headed to?

We fly into London then will take the train the Edinburgh where we'll spend most of our time, but we do have 2 days in Dublin and 3 in Prague, and will also be visiting Glasgow. I've never been anywhere so this is going to be a heck of an eye opening experience for me. Camera will be busy!

 

[weepete]

Sweet mate, you'll have a ball. Edinburgh has loads of old buildings and oppertunities for some brilliant cityscapes in the city centre with the Castle, Carlton Hill and Arthurs Seat. Glasgow is a bit more industrial an I know it a bit better. The West End is kinda studenty and bohemian with the University of Glasgow (first established in the 1400s and 4th oldest in the UK after St Andrews, Cambridge and Oxford) good landmark from kelvingrove park and you can get nice views from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery which is another well known building. The City Centre is Glasgows main drag with Sauchiehall St, Buchannan St and Argyle St being the main shopping streets and the ones with the main Clubs and bars that bring people in to town on the weekend. If you are in Glasgow city centre don't forget to look up, a LOT of the buildings were built by tobbaco merchants and many more than you realise have statues, gulding and domed roofs, many more than we tend to realise. Of course it depends what you like but there is allways something to do, see or someplace ususual to find in both cities. Don't think it's weird if strangers talk to you either, it's that kind of a place though a bit less so in Edinburgh. If you'd like to know anything or whatever just give me a shout, I'd be more than happy to help if I can.

Dublin is pretty awesome too, temple bar being one of the hotspots I found interesting to wander round.

I enjoyed my time in London too, it gets a bad rep on the friendlyness stakes but it is what you make of it and another chance for some really iconic British skyline shots. I'd reccomend a walk down Embankment, there's some great photo opertunities there too. Keep an eye out for the Banksy's too, never know where they will turn up. I liked CarnabyvStreet and Soho it interesting too!

Praague I've never made it to yet but it's one on my list as well!

 

[Islesfan91]

I can't wait to get on the plane, never traveled anywhere, this will be the first time. Figured I'd try to see a bit of several places and then have a better idea of where I'd want to go next. A safari would be incredible but I really wanted to see some older places with a ton of history and she has family in Edinburgh so this should be a good start. Taking the camera and have lightroom 5 and perfect photo suite 8 loaded on my Surface pro 2, should be able to do some editing while I'm there