OK .. lets get clearing out some of these pics from the last 6 months that have been sat around .. see if I can't start getting some time to myself, so I can waste it doing exploring, landscapes, star trails and sunrises ... well maybe not sunrises, but anyways.
Three images of steam locos taken locally .. as much as I love seeing them, I'm a little over photographing them at the moment, however, plans to electrify the local line and stick massive ugly steel pylons everywhere have spurred me on to make the most of it before it's all ruined.
Top two are Tornado on a lovely rainy summers day, not exactly the best, but hey, it's Tornado and anything that shakes the ground like that gets me excited to stand next to! (without trespassing I may add - since there have been many reports of stupid photographers of late)
The bottom one is, unfortunately, a photo mash up in photoshop. I spent ages planning, mapping, ephemerising, timing and figuring out a cool location for what looked like a gorgeous Flying Scotsman sunset shot. All went exactly to plan and my carefully planned and timed backlit sunset glow lit the valley amazingly .. of course being a Scotsman, it didn't co-operate and didn't turn up on time until after shadows had descended over the valley. So gutted by the near miss, that I took photos anyway and disgracefully merged them into a vision of what could have been. Oh well, maybe next time ....
