Frosty Morning

Skye from Badicaul (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24-105mm lens at 24mm, ISO 400, 1/25sec at f/16, Panorama of 2 shots)

Another very cold frosty morning but incredibly beautiful today.  This shot was taken on the way to Plockton from the coast road, chosen to avoid the icy high road that I would normally take.  There were very few clouds about but as we turned north at Badicaul this sky provided an amazing spectacle which faded quite quickly again.

I also stopped to take some images of the frost covered foliage on some of the trees and the gorse, but I must have been shaking with the cold because they were all a bit blurred.  This one of the gorse was about as good as I managed but it too is a bit off.  I should have chosen a higher ISO setting or larger aperture to increase the shutter speed but I wanted to try and keep the whole of the head of gorse in focus, hence the small aperture.

Frost on the Gorse (Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24-105mm lens at 105mm, ISO 800, 1/15sec at f/16)