16th
December 2016
(Friday) .... 13.00 ‘The Boy’ (that’s
me) has had a really enjoyable, and full
morning. I was down on the beach by 07.15
to photograph
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| Dawn beginning to break over Elie. |
the ‘false dawn’ light .... sunrise was at 08.41 ....
unfortunately it. the false dawn light,
didn’t happen this morning. However I did get a few photo’s of the real dawn breaking; right
through until the sun peeped over the Lammermuir hills. It was brilliant down on the beach at dawn
time: there was enough light to see all around, but
not the ‘white’ light that comes with the ‘false dawn’. However, the haunting sound of two curlews ‘conversing’,
and an occasional Redshank piping up....more than made up for that.
When
I looked at the mornings set of Elie and Earlsferry, ‘dawn to sunrise’ photos
... I
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| Half an hour before sunrise. |
was much pleased. I didn’t have
much time to look at them because I had to go along to Anstruther to pick up my
specs. That turned out to be a
fruitless mission as there wasn’t an optician on duty along there today... and,
being Vari-focals, the specs have to be fitted by an optician. I’ll make an appointment after I get back
from Sussex. I had a cuppa to get me
unwound, then wandered up to the post box and posted the Christmas cards; going back home to via the beach.
Jim
and Jimmy dropped in for a coffee/tea;
this was a very welcome break from my being in ‘flap on’ mode. That took us up to 11.45. when the ‘boy’s poodled
off to have lunch.
21.30 At last I’m beginning to look forward to
Christmas; my Christmas cards have been
written, and posted (either GPO or Rotary) with only the local ones to pop
through the doors sometime tomorrow. I
took some ‘time out’ tonight to go out with
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| Floodlit Kilconquhar Church. |
the camera fitted on to the tripod
tonight: with Kilconquhar Church being
floodlit for the Festive Season I decided to begin my ‘practice’ there. I think I have the timings about right; just got to get the focusing perfected. The tripod is ideal; nae fiddly bits to bother me... yes, I shall ‘do’
Kilconquhar Kirk again tomorrow night ... and the trees and decorations, around
the village. Weather permitting of
course.... i.e. nae wind ... or rain!
The weather forecast is ‘good’ for tomorrow... light wind, and mair
sunshine!
Photographs
: Top – dawn breaking, Middle – half an hour before sunrise, and Bottom – Kilconquhar
Church floodlit for the Festive Season.
