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Leica M8, Elmarit 21mm. Post in Lightroom & Gimp.

Post in Lightroom & Gimp.

Leica M8, Elmarit 21mm. Post in Lightroom & Gimp.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

Leica M8, Summicron 28 - post in Lightroom & Gimp.

Insta360 AcePro2, post in Lightroom, borders in Gimp.

Headed east for an appointment at the Raigmore, snapped this on the way.

Insta360 Ace2, post in Lightroom.

Retrieved my FiL's Yashica TLR from their attic recently and ran a roll of HP5 and Kodak Gold 200 through to test it. Looks like both the focus and shutter speeds are way off which is only to be expected since it's probably been in storage for 50 years!

Anyhow, decided to see if I could make some lemonade anyway. Processed in Lightroom, borders in Gimp.

Leica M8, Summicron 28mm. Edit in Lightroom, borders in Gimp.

Whelp!

Many, many thanks to the kind staff at Broadford Hospital and Raigmore in Inverness.

Be careful out there folks.

Lucky enough to call this home, early start, coffee included. Followed by a quick dip.

Couple more of today's trails, the original post wouldn't let me add them for some reason.

A favorite road > trail > some incredible beaches close to my house on the Isle of Skye.

Today included a lost seal pup (hard to spot amongst the seaweed), and worried that I'd scared mum off I pulled back, stood still and waited. Thankfully she re-appeared and the pup swum out for a reunion.

I managed to get a swim in myself too, away from the seals of course.

Sounds simple enough, 7K distance up & down Glamaig (2,500') on the Isle of Skye. I didn't race but volunteered to be one of the 2 marshals at the top cairn turnaround.

Getting up (and down) was brutal enough even with a 90 minute start on the competitors. Loose scree, bogs & marsh, near vertical wet grass. Winning male did the entire thing in 48:24, female in 1:01:22. It's an incredible thing to witness.

The top was shrouded in mist but once you got below that the views are pretty amazing too, glimpses of Eigg and Rum.

Typical Skye, wet, boggy, challenging and spectacular all wrapped up together.

43" Frame with a disappearing act on a dreich afternoon (no heatwave here). Cat is colour coordinated of course.

Console designed & built by Reed LaPlant Studios.

Replacement 43" Frame showed up today with a small hole in the box. No biggie right? Except that Samsung pack the TV with the screen right up against the cardboard even though there's probably 4" of styrofoam padding if they packed it facing the other way.

Thankfully via Amazon so back it goes.