Scotland's Fairy Bridge
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Beautiful spot. The stone bridge is really amazing. Thank you for sharing your great captures.
Thank you!
Enjoyed the video John. I admire your patience with people who I suspect might be deliberately anti social.
Thanks Jim! I'm not normally that patient!
What an amazing little location! Great photos John 👍👍
Cheers Simon! Aye first time there. Definitely heading back in the autumn!
I was there last Monday morning. A grey, overcast day - absolutely perfect conditions for shooting in that environment and we had the place to ourselves. Got lots of bluebell shots too, shooting down low with the bluebells as foreground interest and the bridge in the background.
Love the shot at 13:00 and I wish I had taken it.
Also, you can take the track down the right hand side of the burn, where there is a tall waterfall - maybe 20m or so - but I've not been able to get a composition. The track continues down to the road, turning left to return to the car park.
Thanks Dougie! I didn't follow any of the other tracks and had no idea there was another waterfall. I've got an excuse to go back now!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotographydon't get too excited. I'm not convinced that there is a shot to be had. 😂
One of my favourite locations to visit. Thank you very much for sharing. Check out the big waterfall downstream too - magnificent.
Superb 👌.
Thanks!
I’ve been off line for a couple of weeks. How wonderful to sign on and find your latest video! As always, beautiful images. I was really intrigued by your hand-held multi-shot effort. It turned out beautifully! I’ve been experimenting with some panos (new technique to me!) and having fun with it. Seeing how you worked that complex of an image was really intriguing. Something more for me to play with! Thank you, as always, for your work.
Thanks James! You should give the hand-held multiple image pano a try. I did another, even larger, one on this trip but didn't share it in the video. It was 20+ images stitched together and the final file was huge!
Very beautiful images and composition 👍🏼
More of it 👍🏼
Thank you!
I've seen lots of images from here John so well done you for getting unique compositions not seen anywhere else. I will be at this location in late June but the bluebells will be gone by then. Tremendous work as always.
Thanks Marella! It's a great location. Have you been before? I'm already planning a return trip later in the year, ideally when autumn kicks in.
I loved the way you talked through your thought process. Hand held panos might be controversial but you got the results. I liked your post work, too.
Thanks Ben, glad you enjoyed the video
What a wonderful location, like to wide angle photos not sure about the one you stitched together. Very nice enjoyable video as aways. Thankyou.
Thanks Malcolm. Yeh, it's a great location. One I'll definitely be back to later in the year
I am so glad to have seen this video! It was to be the highlight of my trip to scotland in January before the clutch went on my camper and put paid to the whole holiday trip. I havent seen any other videos of the location, so I have really enjoyed your exploration of the site. 😍 When I do eventually get there, I think I will still love it! Love your pics, and to be fair, I think most of this location are bound to be fairly similar given the fact you've really only got the front angles to play with.
thank you! It's a great location, I'm sure you'll enjoy it when you get there! I'm hoping to go back in Autumn at some point
ahhhh lol, happy coincidence again John. Just noticed you done this vlog for this week, I have previously been to this location and am planning with a couple of friends to return this week. It is very nice. Hope you had your wellies'
it's a great spot and made all the better with the bluebells around the bridge. I'm going to try to get back in autumn at some point
What beautiful location!!! Loved your 'stitchin'!!! Thoroughly enjoyable video. Thankyou
Thank you! It's a great spot. Definitely heading back there in the autumn!
Fantastic mate. The stitch shots are awesome 👏👏
Thanks mate! It was a bit iffy balanced on a boulder above the falls but probably worth it in the end!
Great video. Thank you
@@eyeammjh thanks!
It's a great place isn't it John? I loved it when I was there last autumn. Loved the images you captured, a fair few compositions that I never even noticed when I was there 👍
Got to ask: Was the hat tree planted by the same people who go around planting Irn Bru bushes? 🤣🤣
Haha very possibly! Yeh its a great spot. Looking forward to getting back there in autumn!
Some lovely shots, John, quite a few U tubers have been here recently and you managed to get some different shots, I would imagine it would be amazing after heavy Rain, with that Waterfall behind the bridge. I have been out looking for Bluebells myself recently and finding some of my usual suspect areas have been poor this year.
Thanks Douglas! Yeh, I tried Kinclaven Bluebell wood near Perth a few days before shooting this video and there were none out. Apparently they're about 2 - 3 weeks late this year. Returned to Kinclaven a week or so later and sure enough the flowers were out
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Hi John, Yes it's bizarre this year, it should be the opposite after the milder Winter, I am just literally back from Culzean country park
and its is teeming with Bluebells, the best I have seen, last week I was down to get the Bluebells at Aldouran Woods near Leswalt next to Stranraer and their were none, teeming with Wild Garlic but no Bluebells. Very Strange, love your handheld Panoramas they worked really well.
What a cracking spot wouldn’t mind photographing that myself. Don’t you just hate people who see a camera and think it’s out for them, I normally voice my discontent 😂. Nice video mate
Thanks Paul! Yeh its a great spot and worth a visit if you're in the area!
Fantastic location, I presume you were there for a couple of hours. You did every crop other than the one I was expecting for that pano 🙃
I was only at the bridge for an hour or so. I had planned to go on to Glencoe afterwards but in the end I left that for another day. I'm intrigued now about what crop I missed!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Take 19:23 as base image. Crop just left of prominent pale tree on left. This cuts out some sky but includes bluebells, also includes a reflective mid-green mass on left and right of shot. Crop at absolute bottom of the triangular downward pointing rock midstream, which removes distracting light rocks at the bottom right. Probably something like a 9X7 crop.
I'd also be tempted to have a crack at a b&w version because the bridge is so graphic. Looking at it from another angle, which might be appropriate, I'd consider a soft focus fairy tale book illustration type edit in the style of Arthur Rackham ... the options are of course unlimited.
@@iainmc9859 sounds good! I have some spare time tomorrow - I'll give that a try. I did some black & white edits of a few of the images but decided in the end to go with the colour ones because of the bluebells / moss colour contrasts. I did actually try a fantasy / soft focus style with one of the images (not included in the video but I'll maybe pop it in this months newsletter as "bonus" content!)
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Probably see you Saturday, its a good excuse to take a walk up to a waterfall I haven't been to from Strathblane.
@@iainmc9859 i emailed you earlier about that!
Damn those pesky feet dippers, one question , why? I often ask myself , being a pessimist, is this a deliberate act knowing your trying to get a photograph, anyway, great location , one I have never been too, you managed to get some great shots John despite the wildlife 😂
Haha! I was starting to think it was deliberate myself! I cut a lot out but they kept coming back and sat in my shot for quite a while!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Get uncomfortably close to them and keep taking photo's whilst continuing to smile, they'll sod off. Everyone has the right to be there, no one has the right to monopolise it. Reminds me of Gary Norman's famous vlog from about 2018, but he was far more polite than I would have been.
@@iainmc9859 absolutely agree - everyone has a right to be there and I was careful to keep out the way while the others were taking photos but i doubt I'd ever watch someone set up a tripod and camera, wander around for a while and THEN decide that a paddle right in front of their camera was a good idea!
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First video i've seen of that bridge . ...
Wonder how it got that name .
Thanks! Apparently no-one knows why it's there, who built it or when!
@@JohnMcKennaPhotography Cheers
Beautiful Vlog, stunning location. Excellent images awesome.
Thanks Steve!