Went for a great cold frosty walk & took a few photos as usual, trying hard to get a different angle on shots than normal. This one is of the Castle taken through the trees from about 400 yards away, okay I never got the entrance in, but the windows & roof structure is what interested me.
Normally when people visit the Castle they take a photo of the drive from the entrance end, this is taken from the opposite end. I think it shows the straightness of the drive better & the density of the trees that line it. To the right of this shot is the enclosure where the Red Deer I kept, these seem to have no real purpose but to be there for the tourist, one stag & a bunch of does, one of which posed for me to get this shot.
One of our favourite small (level) walks is around Loch Dunmore (where the Enchanted Forest is held), this week as the temperature has hovered below zero the Loch has started to freeze over, but the ever present pair of swans are strong enough to break the ice around the edges & them and the Mallard take advantage of this. Being close to the edge makes them much easier to photograph & the next few shots are my attempt to do just that. The first one shows the classic love heart pose that Swans enjoy showing us. Sorry you have this shot repeated, but have not got the technology to remove it.
Thursday we experienced a decent snow fall but that didn’t stop my misses from doing her daily 10,000 steps, where I at present have damaged the soft tissue in my knee, so took the car up the glen to take the few shots below. Nice & sunny but bitterly cold, but SWMBO was well wrapped up. The second & third shots are of the two Munros together & though not heavily covered in snow do make some attractive shots for photographers. The buildings in the second shot are of a working farm, which must be hard work at this time of the year.
Hope to get a few more shots like these as our Winter settles in.
