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Nikolay Shopov 3 months ago

Beautiful!

Cosmin Marcu 1 year ago

and the story begins

marius grozea 2 years ago

wonderful!

marius grozea 3 years ago

amazing!

Franz Schumacher 3 years ago

Mystisch mystisch. Und sehr gut. Gruß vom Franz

John Parminter Thanks Franz,

fd golden 3 years ago

You have made me add Scotland to my "Bucket List"....(must see before i kick the bucket.)Thank you your work is always superb. fd golden

John Parminter Its worth a visit I reckon

TBM 3 years ago

I was there decades ago... among the morning mist, the castle on the mossy rock was an "I-can't-believe-my-eyes" sight. I have seen dozens of pics of that place, this is the one that gives that impression best. Bravo!

John Parminter Thank TBM

stoiq 3 years ago

I just love this... I can imagine riding horseback down the hill up to the castle and breathing in the sea-air! I especially like the fact that you've captured the movement of the grasses from the wind.

Vidar 3 years ago

Stunning, just stunning!....

John Parminter Thanks Vidar.

WK Chew 3 years ago

Very beautiful B&W landscape. Good work

Jorge Goncalves Silva 3 years ago

Amazing what a great photographer can do with the beautiful landscapes of Scotland. Congrats John.

John Parminter Thanks Jorge

mm767cap 3 years ago

Absolutely gorgeous, John. What a place!!!

John Parminter Cheers Capt. much appreciated.
JP

Alex OBrien 3 years ago

Wow John, don't get too cocky. :)
Fabulous atmospheric image.

John Parminter I wouldn't dare with young upstarts let loose with a camera......

:-)))

JP

Edy Santosa 3 years ago

Fantastic John

Patricia Sweeney 3 years ago

great tones! just lovely.

Biliana 3 years ago

Wonderful!

Daria Endresen 3 years ago

:O you actually shoot in b/w?! what a surprise ;)
Nice to see this new side of your magnificent scapes as well, John :)

John Parminter Yes I'm trying Daria but its all very confusing.....;-))

Cheers,
JP

Dragan M. Babovic 3 years ago

Beautiful landscape full of energy and dynamic.

John Parminter Cheers Dragan

Roger Arleryd 3 years ago

nice one john!

John Parminter Thanks Roger, I'm slowly gaining experience with mono images.

JP

Paolo Giudici 3 years ago

WOW! Beautiful!

JBA 3 years ago

Dunnottar! One of the most romantically situated castles around.I hope you got a pie from Inverbervie on the way home ;-) My ex was from the east of Scotland so I've been there loads. Nice mono stuff from you coming through. Jon

John Parminter Got to be a fish supper you mean Jon, but no as I'm on a strictish healthy diet for some up and coming fellraces I'm doing soon :)
JP

eyelife 3 years ago

beautiful b&w image! the sky is great, light, contrast, subject, compo, everything is perfect.

John Parminter Thanks eyelife, I have a feeling I could have processed the sky a touch better but I'm not complaining...too much ;-)
JP

KPK 3 years ago

Super!

John Parminter Cheers Peter.

Phyllis Clarke 3 years ago

A truly amazing POV you have captured here..the land of enchantment! Lovely, just a gorgeous view! Phyllis

John Parminter It does kind of look pretty ordinary in normal daylight Phyllis I'm afraid. The mono treatment has enhanced it a bit a think.
JP

Daniel 3 years ago

neat ruin.

John Parminter Indeed Danial, cheers/

Andre du Plessis 3 years ago

Quite a surreal setting this! Happy that you are enjoying doing these landscapes in mono. I think that landscapes can be so difficult in B&W, and guess that one has to be so selective. You certainly seem to have nailed this.

John Parminter Thanks very much Andre, I think this was definately one case to shoot and present in mono as a lot more drama from the sky is evident than actually was in reality.
Cheers,
JP

johnpainter 3 years ago

Wow, that's my kind of fixer-upper. A little paint, a little spackle and I could be so happy there. Nice shot, as usual.

John Parminter It will take a bit of fixing up John, this site has been occupied in one form or another for millenia by the earliest dwellers. This ruin is medieval though and likely only 1000 years old or so.
JP

Luc 3 years ago

John, when i visited my Scottish friend a few years ago he took me to visit this castle. I made some pictures ( usual tourist snapshots :-)) there too.

You nailed it right on again- beautiful capture of a beautiful place.

John Parminter Well cheers luc, I had to work at this one a bit..
:)
JP

Morkel Erasmus 3 years ago

another winner John! congrats...

John Parminter Thanks Morkel, appreciated/
JP

RomImage 3 years ago

wow !! very great photo ! and well done B&W

John Parminter cheers/

Gary McParland 3 years ago

I have seen shots of this location before John and it always reminds me of Dunluce Castle. Glad it made it through as its a great image and a wonderful B&W conversion.

Gary

John Parminter Cheers Gary, it was two shots manually blended in PS but actually shot in mono, I've been doing this recently and will adopt this method for B&Ws as I couldn't get to grips doing conversions from colour as I always seemed to muck them up, this way I have only one choice.

JP

Gary McParland Its especially good then John, very well done

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

Wonderful work, John, loved this image in screening, beautifuly done!

John Parminter I'm actually a little diasppointed in my processing Codrin, I did it on my laptop which isn't quite the same as my home m/c and I would have liked to have nailed the sky a bit better but folk seem to like it so I should be happy - I am happy really.. ;-)
JP

Brin 3 years ago

Beautiful photo of an interesting place - great leading lines and good tones.

John Parminter It was the path that persuaded me to take it Brin.
cheers,

Aslan G. Aghdam 3 years ago

What a wonderful picture it is!!!

John Parminter thanks

Pedro Pais 3 years ago

Great photo, absolutely amazing location. Can you share where it is? I enjoyed the contra-light a lot but you still got great shadow details.

John Parminter Dunnottar castle, Scotland Pedro.

Daniel Portal 3 years ago

holly molly....amazing photo, John.
May I ask about the exposure time?
thanks
d

John Parminter Daniel, a very tricky and challenging shot to get as you can imagine the contrast difficulties shooting straight into the sunrise and very dark foreground. I used 6 stops of soft grad but still couldn't get an acceptable exposure so I took one exp. for the foreground and one for the bright part of the sky, I then blended these two manually in PS before carefully adjusting local areas for contrast using levels layers.
JP

Daniel Portal Thanks John. I figured it was pretty tricky. Congratulations again.

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