After a difficult year - a return to posting 

- Some local sunsets from the last few months

 All images COPYRIGHT asserted - David Geddes at The Open Sky

These images are taken looking west towards Skye and Raasay from either side of Loch Carrann. Although I've managed to take many images in late 2010 and throughout 2011, my range has been very limited due to an arthritic ankle now surgically repaired. We have moved house, both retired, seen our son graduate and move to Aberdeen to the Oil Industry as an graduate engineer , and daughter to London to work in Fashion Business. A chocolate labrador puppy has been added to the family to join our mature chocolate labrador bitch. 

The edges of the many weather systems are when the most lovely colours can be seen. A little pre planning for location can be done using the 'The Photographer's Ephemeris' which predicts sun and moon rise and the exact position of sun and moon rise and set overlaid on a version of  Google maps. There are a few moments when the sun low on the horizon illuminates the underside of the clouds, and these in turn reflect onto the sea, or loch or tarn. And in those few moments one has to know the camera its settings, and capability well, and work hard. Most of these  are from a Panasonic Lumix LX2 compact. Some are stitched images. I have recently upgraded to the LX5 which in every single way possible is a great improvement on what was already a very capable camera.