Monday 3 September 2012

Isle of Mull, Tobermory, Scotland

I recently returned from a nice trip to Scotland, concentrating on the west coast and Islands. After visiting Iona, we had time to travel to Tobermory. Tobermory is one of those places where you can't take a bad photo. Much like the Greek Islands. I swear, if you drop your camera and it takes a photo, it will likely be a good one. Of course, the old adage, "F8 and be there" applies. You have to get there to take the photo. Driving on the left hand side of the road was not a problem for most of Mull. The roads are only one lane wide and you drive at highway speeds (60 m.p.h. in most of Scotland) constantly playing 'chicken'. Nothing like the rush of head on collision, potentially, to keep you aware, awake and hyper-vigilant! I'll post some more of my photos from this trip but this one is ready...


It also helps to have cooperation from the weather. It just happened to be a sunny day that day! It was also quite warm, which is an anomaly in Scotland. This was taken with my Nikon D300 using the 10-24 zoom. A little custom cropping was done to concentrate the image and reflection to emphasize the colours as well. What I really like about this one? The fact that it reminds me of the really good bakery found along this line of buildings! The main reason I went to Scotland? The bakeries of course...