{"id":805,"date":"2013-06-09T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=805"},"modified":"2013-06-09T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:19:53","slug":"flowers-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in the mist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lily and the boys rushed down the cliff path to the beach at Winnyfold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing I have learned about the east coast of Scotland in the summer is, beware of the haar. A few days before I had spotted what I hoped would be a great picture when I was struggling up the cliff path at Whinnyfold.\u00a0 The Red Campion is in full bloom just now and I thought it would make a great foreground to a view of the stony beach below. (How I love when the campion is out adding wonderful colour to the countryside!) However it was not easy to take a photograph whiile watching grandchildren on the steep path, Lily the dog on the lead, not to mention carrying all the stuff we had taken down to the beach, and the “treasure” that the boys had gathered and needed to take home.\u00a0 To put it bluntly the shot was a failure.<\/p>\n

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Red campion blazes in the forground, but the headland in the distance is out of focus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I waited for another sunny day then drove back to Whinnyfold. But the best laid schemes…..the dreaded haar appeared before I reached Cruden Bay.\u00a0\u00a0 The light at Whinnyfold was interesting, quite bright through the mist.\u00a0 A builder working on a house extension was not optimistic about my chances of a picture, as he greeted me with, “The haar has spoiled your photographs then!”\u00a0\u00a0 But he was wrong.\u00a0 Although it was not the photograph I had planned I did take several very atmospheric pictures of flowers in the mist. I got my picture of red campion with the haar beyond.<\/p>\n

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I am happier with this picture. The red campion is a great contrast to the murky, haar covered headland behind. Haar doesn’t always spoil the photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We walked on through the village and south along the cliff path.\u00a0 I spotted an interesting\u00a0 picture of thrift on the clifftop with the misty sea below.\u00a0 While I was checking out thrift on the internet I cam across this wonderful wild flower website: www.ukwildflowers.com<\/a>\u00a0 The pictures of thrift were taken at Rhoscolyn in Anglesey where my daughter and her husband have a house and we have spent happy holidays. I I will look out for the thrift there the next time we visit in the summer.<\/p>\n

The sharp eyed may notice a razorbill turning his back on me with\u00a0 guillemot beyond\u00a0 The area where I took the shot is called Green Brow on the map and it certainly is a lovely grassy area gently sloping down to the cliff edge.<\/p>\n

The cliff ledges were alive with birds.\u00a0\u00a0 I must go back when there is no haar!<\/p>\n

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The mysterious light as the sun tried to cut through the haar gave this shot a magical feeling. Thrift on the cliff top at Green Brown, south of Whinnyfold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coming in closer, the bright pink of the thrift lines the forground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One thing I have learned about the east coast of Scotland in the summer is, beware of the haar. A few days before I had spotted what I hoped would be a great picture when I was struggling up the cliff path at Whinnyfold.\u00a0 The Red Campion is in full bloom just now and I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}