If You Go Down To The Woods Today...

[Rob MacKillop]

...with a Sigma SD Quattro, 30mm 1.4 Art lens.

Very hot and cloudless sunny day here in Edinburgh. I know, surreal. Anyway, Susan and I got the 40-minute bus ride to Roslin Glen, home of the famous Rosslyn Chapel. We avoid the chapel, as there are a hundred or so VERY noisy Americans there, and take the path into the deep wooded ravine, very dark, damp, and cool. Perfect.

Anyway, here are some shots from the day:

1. Cow Parsley



2. Brig over the River North Esk:



3. Spotlight



4. Strange thing:



5. Close up of said:



6. Torn Curtain:



7. Barbed-Wire Trilogy, Part The First:



8. Barbed-Wire Trilogy, Part The Second:



9. Barbed-Wire Trilogy, Part The Third:

 

[Pete Askew]

Luscious is the word I think here, Rob. Gorgeous stuff.

 

[Dave Farnes]

Great set of images, really like them. Very well observed and captured. I especialy like the bridge and the first barbed wire pic.

The "strange thing" looks very similar to something I was looking at a few days ago; the seed pod of a poplar tree.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thank you, kind sirs. I definitely will be asking Santa for a macro lens for this camera, as there were some very-interesting tiny-wee things I just couldn't capture with the 30mm lens.

 

[Brian Moore]

I was going to say "gorgeous" but "he" said it already. And I can't use luscious because he has used that one too! A fine set, though. I especially like the brig shot and the cow parsley. The sunlight is palpable in those two images.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thank you, sir! And in b&w too!

 

[Pete Askew]

"Palpable". Damn, didn't think of that!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Enough to give you palpitations, Pete. [This is why Susan writes the dictionaries, not I]

 

[Pete Askew]

Does she sell a lot in California by any chance?

 

[Brian Moore]

Does she sell a lot in California by any chance?

Cheeky bugger!

 

[Raza Shaikh]

Lovely B&W Set.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thank you.