August 2023 Newsletter Summer is bashing on, and the hot, dry sunny spell seems a bit of a distant memory now as we settle into a pattern of sunny, stormy, warm, wet, and windy. Nature always pays it’s debts the old fermers say, so perhaps that’s just how it should be. Ying and Yang. Certainly, when you look abroad, or even just out of your hotel window if you are actually abroad just now, and see the searing heat and wild res that are going on, then Alba ain’t so bad. The good thing about the sun dropping down in it’s apex is that the photographic quality of the light rises with that…we get raking shadows, softer peaks, later sunrises and earlier sunsets.
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August is a busy month for Scotland, with so many tourists arriving from all round the UK, as well as Europe, USA, and Asia. If you’re a landscaper, then that poses problems, and if you’ve tried getting the Fairy Pools in Skye recently you’ll know what I mean. I’m going to be in Lewis for the rst few weeks…bit of work, bit of fun, bit of photography, and luckily it’s an area I know well, so I know where to go to avoid the busy bits, if not the midges. It’s also an opportunity to catch up with some of our more remote members, and this is something that everyone could be doing…wherever you’re going, have a look at the RPS websites, check out the FB pages, see if anything is happening or anyone is planning anything, and get involved. That’s where the fun lies. Gabh an spòrs sin.
Opponents in Harmony Findlay Rankin ARPS Monthly Competition July /August’s (yep a 2monther) topic is Summer Holidays, and you should submit your entries to Ken, sized at 1000px wide, by as many pixels as you want tall, via Scotlandweb@rps.org. I’ll leave Findlay’s elegant winner up for this month too…well deserved.