Occasional Ramblings with a Camera

This blog is my occasional ramblings on here, there and about, with and very occasionally without a camera. Photography, art, landscape (principally Scottish), heritage and wildlife are the things that interest me the most, so thats what I'll be writing about and of course showing pictures of. They say that a photograph is worth a thousand words, well I'm not so sure about that but if it is then great as it will save me a heap of typing, all power to the image.


Drimmie wind farm panorama

05-05-2015

Posted not out of any love for wind farms but by way of a small achievement on my part. With the fast moving blades getting the overlap and their desired positions required many images and considerable masking from one overlap to the next. Thankfully the power of dedicated stitching software then comes into its own.
I've captured 15 of the 16 turbines here, many more are pending planning for the adjacent moorland. The dark hill in the background is Mount Blair.

The stone in the foreground is marking the grave of a dog and is not of any great antiquity. However just a few meters away on a small rise there is a very nice kerb'd hut circle, with a large recumbent stone near its entrance. Worth a visit. I wonder what its occupants would have thought of all that now surrounds them. There are many other hut circles and features in the area.

drimmie wind farm © George Logan