‘Savoring the Sunrise’ - Cnòc a Mhèrlich, Cleat, Druim an Ruma, Dun Dubh and Bioda Buidhe, Quiraing, Isle of Skye, UK
photo by Brad Eide
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/58071954@N08/
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Scotland, that is.
I know it's sunrise, but I thought the photo was a bit too yellow, so I toned that down. Also added some depth to the clouds.
Quiraing, eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Andrew Ridley
website - https://www.aridleyphotography.com/
original image - https://unsplash.com/photos/Kt5hRENuotI
And foggy. Isle of Skye again.
Here I darkened the clouds to bring out more detail in them.
Fairy Glen, Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Johannes Dittrich
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I already posted another photo of the Fairy Glen. It had some nice stone spirals in the foreground. The spirals are visibe in this one, too, but curiously, there are no stones. They have been pulled out. So I decided to investigate, and it appears that the stone spirals are the creation of tourists, who just think that the place called 'Fairy Glen' has to have them. The locals don't like them, and remove them regularly.
This photo, beautiful as it is, unfortunately had some quite bad halos at the horizon, so I cleaned that up. It is actually possible that this wasn't the original sky, and that the halos were the result of the sky replacement, but I can't really tell.
Fairy Glen, Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Jean Claude Castor
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/claudecastor/
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A magical place. But then, most of the Isle of Skye is.
This image was heavily over-processed. So, of course I processed it some more. The grass was almost monochrome, the sky lost all depth, and the clouds looked almost solid. So I did what I could to bring it back to life, but the sky I thought was beyond saving. So I replaced it with something I found appropriate, and I like the purple-yellow-green combo.
Sgurr nan Gillean, Am Basteir, Sgurr a Bhasteir, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Manuel Martin
website - https://www.manuelmartinphotography.com/
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Windows 10 Spotlight version - https://windows10spotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/307f1cc8e3b2a73e2198305404fa57dc.jpg
Well, at least funny to me. It's Gaelic if I'm not mistaken. A very calming photo, and the road really gives it depth and draws you in.
Just did the basic housekeeping.
Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Daniel Kordan
website - https://danielkordan.com/
original image - https://danielkordan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F-7.jpg
There’ll be more photos by Daniel Kordan (aka Daniel Korzhonov). He’s a photographer worth checking out. His photos are one better than the other, and there’s a lot of them. I don’t always like his image processing though - he’s one of the photographers who will often turn their photos into something that looks more like an illustration, with too sweetened-up, almost tacky colors, but when you compare his take on a subject with the take of the other photographers, he is usually a class above.
There’ll be more photos of Scotland, and the Isle of Skye, as that place looks simply amazing.
I tightened the colors here, and made the whole scene a bit moodier, as I think that does justice to the stormy sky.
