Neist Light House

Following on from the previous image where you can see the top of the cliff (taken from about the same level way back on the mainland bit) this is shot is taken from pretty well the lowest perspective without being dead on the rocks below or in a boat 🙂 I can only imagine how this would look in the middle of winter during a storm, I am sure that the cliffs don't end up like this from sunbathing in the summer sun (non-existent sun at that 😉 )
All the little white specks on the cliff, they are birds 🙂 all the green and yellow stuff, thats bird poop, smells tops too.

So at a little church just outside the Trossach National Park there is a grave (or allegedly 😉 ) of a dude called Rob Roy, a outlaw, a hero, and probably a whole bunch of other things, however he is immortalised in hearts and minds of most Scots and probably half the world thru various movies 😉

Anyway, I could not find his grave there, but that was because there was this little neat creek running down the hill behind the church, which I chose to check out instead. It was a mess of rocks, roots and branches, quite a challenge to get a consistent, coherent composition, well one without balancing on the edge of a precarious rock and falling bum over chin 😉

The brilliant greens is just something to be seen over there, its not like in Oz where you will have the occasional patch of sweet green-ness, but instead its just that any piece of foliage is nuclear green 🙂 and thats before I take a picture of it 😉

This was a 3 shot panorama, I just could not leave out that cool bank with the awesome ochre colour.

D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 30 seconds (and it was the middle of the day!)
ISO: 100
out front: just another sweet Scottish Creek

The Scots don't mind the odd Monument it seems, It does seem alot of effort just for a building which is not particularly functional (happy to be corrected here ) – I guess one could compare it to the Centrepoint Tower in Sydney, not overly functional and mainly a tourist attraction – that said, the WW monument is a tad older, built in 1861 🙂
Its a pretty impressive sight, at 67 metres high it certainly stands out, we first saw it when visiting the Stirling Castle, looking out from the castle its a distinct landmark across the landscape, we did also visit the actual monument but did not climb up it (too late in the day). When I first saw it at Stirling Castle I thought, yeah gotta get a shot of that, i'll do it when we leave… it then rained 🙂
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3 shot panorama
D750 coupled with Nikkor 70-200 mm f2.8 @ 200mm Aperture: f4 and Shutter Speed: 1/250s
ISO: 200
out front: just another Scottish Monument

same old same old 😉 nothing to see here
but if you do view it, view it large 🙂

some boat,. floating around on a icey cold large lake (they call 'em fjords over there) and a few snow capped hills in the distance…
Behind me was this pretty cool campsite, if we had known about this spot we would have definitely stayed the night here, imagine sunset over those hills 🙂 Its a spot about 20 minutes (a hour if you stop for photos 😉 ) out of Olden.

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3 shot panorama, each shot was bracketed
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 27mm Aperture: f9 and Shutter Speed: 1/30s (normal) 1/125s (underexposed for teh sky) 1/8s (over exposed for the shadows)
ISO: 125
out front: just another Norwegian fjord.

We make the invisible visible

Cheers to my mate (David Brodrick) for getting a ticket into the opening of the MaxIV x-ray, particle accelerator, electron zoomer thingy-a-ma-jig…
Now, these guys and gals that design and make these kinda places are pretty cluey I think, makes what we do with planes look a bit agricultural 🙂
Have a look at that section of beamline, its that big chunk of steel that sits on a bigass chunk of concrete wrapped up in a electro-magnet with a little pipe in the middle (straight pipe btw) where the little electrons get zoomed on down.. there are a whole bunch of these straight sections aligned in a big circle that is the x-ray collimator – now these individual beamline bits are alittle bit precise when it comes to positioning and aligning, about 3 decimal places (metric that is) to be exact.. thats pretty cool i reckon. I guess if these are not aligned correctly then the electrons probably go bouncing down the tubes making all kind of a ruckus (thats kinda bad I think) rather than heading straight down the middle and spitting out at each of the instrument stations, which are basically a hole in teh wall with a whole bunch of expensive equipment to try and utilise these x-rays.
I am sure all you scientist types are cringing at my bogan description.. but hey 🙂
Also check out the thickness of the wall and the door plug, i wonder if thats to stop stray x-rays if things go pear shaped 🙂 the way they move the doors is pretty neat, basically looks like a air cushion which moves them around…
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The southern perspective. These should give a bit of a idea of the drive out of Geiranger, one of the most popular spots in Norway
The one without the cruise ships was at sunset, 11 pm 🙂 with tickles fast asleep in the back of the car 🙂 and was in fact only 100 metres from where we were staying, however our airbnb spot (the worst we had for the whole trip) did not have any views

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All over Norway you see houses/cottages perched in the strangest places, for example driving along one side of a fjord you will often notice a building on the other side, my first thought, and kinda never got answered, was how the hell do they get there (to build it or even visit it), there is no road and often its way out in the middle of nowhere. I did see one place on the otherside of a river which had a cool zip-line( flying fox for you aussies 😉 ) with a big bucket across it.
So, here is one of these places, there was one road on this side of the fjord and I pretty sure there was not on the other, definitely no zipline across here either, this one was pretty neat since it was nicely position with the mountains, you can also see a little kummune way over the lake and of course, that rather large flow of ice down a hill, sometimes referred to as a glacier.

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3 shot panorama, each shot was bracketed
D750 coupled with Nikkor 70-200 mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 1/1.6s (normal) 1/13s (underexposed for teh sky) 5s (over exposed for the shadows)
ISO: 100
out front: just another Norwegian fjord.

yeah, too cool for school, note the unwavering carriage and deployment of the sultanas

After our first night in Norway, the morning called for one thing after we had fresh eggs from the chooks in the backyard, a icecream picnic whilst mum and dad packed the car for the next leg of the trip.
ya can't get more cliche than this for a typical scene from norway, electric green grass fields dotted with 'icecubes' (haybales wrapped in white plastic, interestingly the Scots use black plastic whilst the Norwegians white…) and a mountain peak drizzled in snow in the background.
btw, here is tickles getting the hang of the thumbs up, almost there