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A tough haul

23rd May 2015

Rigs and Smoke

 

Two anchor handlers haul the Ocean Valiant up the Firth, the start of a journey from Invergordon to the Northern North Sea.  Lots of smoke as they struggle to both get her up to four or five knots, and keep her straight as she is towed up the Cromarty Firth. In photography terms a summer evening shot, looking down the Firth is tricky, as the setting sun is always right behind the subject, whether its a Rig, a Cruise ship, the steam of Invergordon’s industries or trying to get an evening shot of Ben Wyvis. The trick here is to use the sun to get a silhouette, to use photoshop to darken and contrast, and to accept the grainy gloaming colours that distant fields of spring barley and oil seed rape give through strong, but diffuse light.

I like the result, and its a powerful dramatic end result, in my humble opinion.

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A Multitude of Rigs

21st April 2015


A multitude of rigs

The face of $70 Oil. The Firth filling up with hot and cold stacked rigs, and an increasing number that are planned for scrap. But hey we have been here before, in 30 years looking down the Firth I’ve seen it full and I’ve seen it empty. From an aesthetic viewpoint I’m happier if its full. Better photos as well.

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Calum Davidson

Calum Davidson was a a well-known regional planner and photographer. He described himself as a photographer with a day job, living in a very photogenic part of the globe, and who got to travel a bit to other almost as photogenic bits of the planet.

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