The Faerie Pools, Isle of Skye
The Faerie pools are very photogenic, and I like them best on a ‘bad’ weather day, when you can attempt to capture the mood of the surrounding dark and brooding mountains. This view is looking towards a famous climb, called “Stovepipe Gully”.
The rocks are slippery, not an easy place to set up a tripod, and I have been observed by more sane folk than myself, crawling on hands and knees for the best vantage point !
There is a trail/walk alongside the burn and various pools that goes quite some way into the hills, amidst very grandiose scenery….....but prepare for wet feet, the ground is amazingly boggy here …...... and those rocks you have to clamber over to get your shot ? EXTRA slippery !!
This is a three RAW HDR, shot on my Canon EOS 40D, mounted on the tripod, polariser fitted, to lose two stops of light for the blur effect, f27, underexposed by half a stop, then a +2EV and -2EV from that reading, iso 100, auto wb, processed in Photomatix, then in Adobe CS3 with various tweaks to colours etc., and where the water was burned out by the HDR process, layered in parts of the original 0EV file.
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Angie McKenzie
beautiful!!!
Kelly Cavanaugh
Gorgeous, Barbara!
paul messenger
Stunning shot, a fav for me. well done
JamieGreen
Great composition and stunning result
Kevin Skinner
This is a cracker. Wonderful detail from front to back. Excellent!
Adri Padmos
Gorgeous work, Barbara!
Jeff Burns
Absolutely Gorgoeus
foppe47
Excellent well done
Foppe
NATURELENS
Superb, instant fave
George Lenz
beautiful scene…nicely done…
KatsEye
OMG!!!!! This is so gorgeous! Love the pov. Most superb!
davidShandley
Fabulous work
KenWright
stunning
Bob Culshaw
WOW Barbara – yet another example of your fantastic work!
Jim Robertson
Superb Barbara
Kelvin Hughes
Beautiful image
richiedean
Thanks for risking a slip and dunk Barbara to bring us this wild and dramatic view, truly absorbing ….......... :))
clmustin
Great shot. Looks like it could be three different locations.
dc witmer
stunning shot, I love the whole series :)
Josie Jackson
A fantastic job of processing, gorgeous colours and lighting and love the water and that beautiful mountain with its peaks shrouded in cloud, very beauitiful
Carla Maloco
Love it,from the clouds to the water you’ve captured it all.
Charuhas Images
Amazing capture. I love your work. Simply superb!!!
Shaun Whiteman
Beautiful shot, wonderful shutter speed and lighting, the highland in a shot!!!...it’s on my very long list of locations to visit!!
Meeli Sonn
That beautiful mountain with its peaks shrouded in cloud, is very beauitiful. This is a fantastic photo of processing, great colour’s joice, lighting. I just love long exposure of the water.
noffi
This is a simply awesome image. I am delighted to have found you and your wonderful photography. I plan to keep on viewing your stunning scenery. You are indeed lucky to live where you do!
Liz
Dinni H
great capture! a story telling photo!
kathy s gillen...
congratulations on being featured in the All Water in Motion group
PhotosEcosse replied
Thank You so much, I am truly honoured !!
Karl Williams
Well done on the feature, kid .. good pic! Like the colour contrasts particularly.
PhotosEcosse replied
Thought you’d like that one Karl !! ( I posted the shot last week but forgot to add to any groups…......DOH !!!!!!!!!! )
Karl Williams
The last time we were up that way, we went skinny dipping. I got bitten by every bloody midge and cleg in the island .. bites in places where I didn,t even know I had places. Great place, mind you .. especially the pool with the underwater arch.
PhotosEcosse replied
Aye, with the heather and bog myrtle, combined with the wettest of bogs, a superb breeding ground for every biting insect you can think of ! Especially disgusting Ticks !
Tibby Steedly
Barbara, this is magical, gorgeous and absolutely stunning!!!
Garth Smith
Another beautiful image Barbara and thank you for describing the creation of this masterpiece.
Joanna Beilby
Goergeous shot. I hope those faeries are hardy!
Robert Mullner
Superb in every way..
Mark Robson
Stunning image :)
adgray 28 days ago
Rare sunlit beams catch flecks of shine
On the rocks where the Faeries play
Through all the passing of father time
There has now come this day
When if you lay in boggy peat
hold your breath … be still
You may see the Faerie Folk Festival
In this land of mountains and stormy skies
There are burns where faeries live
A word of warning to the wise
You’d best have plenty to give
For if they catch you peeping
the wee folk of the glen
There’s a high charge to watch ye ken
All the glorious sights you could ever behold
From when you were young til when you’d be old
Is shown on display for you, so I’m told
When you see the Faerie Folk Festival
But
You ‘ll not see again that gathering sky
Nor the craggy mountains aimed so high
For your sight will be lost to the wee folk so nigh
And ne’er your wanderings return
Up on the slopes of brooding hills
where the weather closes in
There are pools where the faeries can be found
Making a terrible din
They cannae move the greedy man
And he’s is left to pitifully weep
He’s paid the price to the Festival for a peep!
adgray©2009 (Just then again lol)
This is a bit of fun! (lol) I hope you like the play on the location’s name!
I have to admit though I have a bit more Irish than Scottish in me and my accent favours the Irish (lol) So we can work on it if it’s too Irish and not Scottish enough! (lol)
I have to say though you are queen of the brooding stormy sky and master of the warm damp colours of your land!
One day I’ll get my feet wet in the bogs too!
Chookas! ♥
Simon Hathaway 27 days ago
Lovely image!
MischaC 25 days ago
Congrats on your well-deserved feature! This is indeed a masterpiece!
Karen Moore 22 days ago
Your images are stunning and yes you are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place. This is a stunning shot !
blindmelonme 14 days ago
Superb, congrats!!.