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We spent yesterday evening with James Deane and Vanessa at Bridgend. Apart from having a very pleasant evening James offered me to borrow his Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens. Now I've always been a big fan of wide angle lenses, I like the big skies you can capture and the special effects of the white clouds against a blue sky. This morning started out rainy and grey but around noon the blue skies and sun came out. Time to take the lens for a test drive. We went to Sanaigmore and I took some pictures here and there along the way as you can see. I was already enthusiastic about this lens during the afternoon and when I came home and sorted out the pictures I was even more convinced that this would be the next lens on my wish list. The results are quite stunning for a first time and I hope you like them as well!

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Fri, 14 May 2010 11:52:36 -0700 Beautiful Islay Weather Returns http://isleofislay.posterous.com/beautiful-islay-weather-returns http://isleofislay.posterous.com/beautiful-islay-weather-returns

After a misty start of the day, see the earlier post, the weather turned out to be fabulous. We spent some time on the Rhinns of Islay as you can see from the beautiful views over Loch Indaal that include some images from the Lama’s, the horses and cattle. I also included another image of the Gorse which is flowering incredibly beautiful at the moment. I have spoken to other people about it and they mentioned that this kind of bloom is quite exceptional. We had a very nice chat in the afternoon with Betsy West from Port Wemyss, 94 years young and a competitor of Lily (Fish) MacDougall who we are going to visit in the next days. If you Google Betsy’s name you will find some really nice and very old images of her and Port Wemyss. I also wrote about Betsy on my Islay Blog about a year ago.

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Sun, 09 May 2010 10:53:30 -0700 Sunny Sunday on Islay http://isleofislay.posterous.com/sunny-sunday-on-islay http://isleofislay.posterous.com/sunny-sunday-on-islay

A lazy Sunday morning was spent at Debbies where we met the diehards from the velo club ‘d Ardbeg followed by a visit to the beautiful gardens of Foreland House. In the afternoon we went to Machir Bay where I made the rewarding walk up to Grannies Rock and had stunning views over the Atlantic Ocean and Bay. Tonight we are off to watch the sunset, more about that tomorrow! I want to thank everyone for the lovely comments on Facebook , they really make me go the extra mile so keep them coming!

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