Posts about castle

  • Calendar for my aunt

    Selected images for the 2023 calendar I made for my aunt.

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  • Blair Castle

    After a twelve year wait, I finally get a decent photograph of Blair Castle, near Pitlochry in Scotland.

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  • Schloss Habsburg

    A mighty family rose from a little castle amongst the fields in Swiss canton Aargau.

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  • Hallwil, Switzerland

    Lake Hallwil

    Going somewhere new and exploring the lake shore at Seengen, near Hallwil.

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  • Cawdor Castle, Scotland

    Photographs of the castle and gardens at Cawdor, near Nairn in Scotland.

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  • Spiez castle, photographed at dusk using a Mavic Air drone

    A quick tip on how to get better image results from your Mavic drone in low-light conditions.

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  • Tintagel, Cornwall

    Tintagel Not-Castle

    I was a little disappointed that the “castle” at Tintagel was little more than a few bits of wall at the coast. (I suppose I have been spoiled by the castle ruins at Dunnottar and Tantallon.) Our walk along the coast path, doing battle with the wind, was lovely anyway, with foxgloves (a memory from

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  • Oberhofen Castle

    A thousand-year-old castle on the lake shore near Thun, with wonderful gardens, terrific views, and a hideously ugly restaurant.

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  • Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.

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  • Everybody likes a pretty castle

    Visiting the ridiculously picturesque castle and vineyards at Aigle, in the Rhone valley.

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  • Into the world of TTL

    With the money I’ve put aside for new camera gear, a new, reliable, fully automated flash gun was high on my “wants” list, not least because I receive a slowly increasing number of requests to take portrait photographs and cover events.

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