Where the Water of Cruden flows down to the sea

A place where I love to take pictures is between the Ladies’ Bridge and Port Erroll Harbour. There are so many wonderful views there of the burn, the sand, the seaweed covered rocks, that picturesque boat, not to mention the Ladies’ Bridge itself. And Lily enjoys time on the beach too.

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a project sponsored by Practical Photography Magazine called Camera School. The first module was to submit a landscape photograph. I took pictures of Slains Castle, of the Ythan at Newburgh but it was the mouth of the Water of Cruden that really took my attention. Time and time again I was out there on the sand at low water trying to find just the perfect angle for my picture. The light had to be right, so I visited at different times of day, and I had to co-ordinate the light with the tides to make sure I could get into the position I wanted. (It is great to have tide tables easily found on the Internet!) I am sure that some of these pictures will appear in next year’s Cruden Country Calendar.

I wonder if this boat is destined to be this year’s Viking longship?

The little boat SY804 has really taken my atention and It appears in many of the photographs,takenfrom all sorts of angles.

In the end I selected a picture which I took very early one morning featuring the World War II anti-tank defensive blocks leading the eye up to the Ladies’ Bridge, and of course my favourite boat is in shot in the distance. Now I have to wait for the Camera School evaluators to give me their opinion.