Estonia - Keila-Joa Waterfall

On our last day in Tallin, we went on a day tour to some interesting sites outside Tallin. The Keila waterfall is the third largest and the longest waterfall in Estonia. It is 6 metres high. There is a renovated hydroelectric power plant and one of the grandest manor houses in Estonia. The weather had been milder than expected so the waterfall was not fully frozen. 

 

Playing with Shutterspeed etc at The Strid

Thursday was the best day weatherwise of my trip so I decided on a walk at Bolton Abbey up to the cascades at The Strid. I had a 10-stop ND filter with me so tried various long exposures; eg. images 3 and 5 1/4 second, images 4 and 6 30 secs). In some cases, I took several different shots at the same settings and then used the HDR mode in LR to combine them to give a softer image (eg image 7 which is four 1/4 second exposures)

Waterfalls in Infrared

I like the way the water has been rendered in gold tones against neutral silver rocks etc. 

However Paul somewhat spoiled the fantasy by saying it looked more like sewage outfalls. Oh well back to the drawing board.

Ingleton Waterfalls in the Rain

Although only light, the rain made photographing at the Falls difficult as we constantly had to dry the filters and cameras. These are taken with a polarising filter, which in the dull conditions gave exposures of 2 - 5 seconds and intensified the colours of the peaty water and rocks.

Iceland in Monochrome

I have at last finished a Gallery of images from our February visit to Iceland with 30 monochrome conversions. Here are a few of them - shown at smaller size than usual as they are pretty rough on the 'edges' - need tidying up or reprocessing in some cases before printing. Full gallery at www.pin-sharp.co.uk

Fulmars at Skogafoss and the Bird Out-Takes

On a few occasions, I regretted not having a long enough lens with me to do justice to the birds in their surroundings. The Fulmars were spectacular as they flew across the front of the waterfall (taken in the rain!!). Lots of Snow Buntings enjoying scraps. My favourite image is the last one but unfortunately a grabbed shot and not quite fast enough shutterspeed to capture the Oystercatchers flock - maybe a soft print on soft paper might work?