During a visit to Iona I thought I would take some photos in the evening as well as the full, glorious light you can get in the daytime in the Hebrides. I have no doubt that in some ways I have been influenced by the compositions of Cadell and Peploe who interest me very much. But then again I am a landscape painter -and no doubt compose photos and paintings in a similar way. I also like to try and photograph the evening light. "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,The holy time, as quiet as a Nun...." Wordsworth.
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The Ross of Mull from Iona.
This photo above was taken about 25 minutes
before sunset-which in these latitudes in early June is after 2200hrs..The contrasts should be
more intense. The sunlight catching the rocks positively burned with
colour.What is normally, in daylight a pinkish brown became something
glowing with the intensity of yellowy-orange gorse on a summer day. It
may be that my camera could not capture the dynamic range.It was an extraordinary visual
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| Iona, Port Bhan with Dun Bhuirg.This geological feature appears as a subject of some significance to Cadell. But it doesn't appear as far as I know in Peploe. |
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Iona:The Bay at the Back of the Ocean, evening. This is on the west side of the island and so it catches the setting sun.
Iona North End. The Dutchman's Cap is on the horizon. Very much a composition such as Cadell or Peploe might have painted.
Iona North End.The peculiarly shaped rocks in the sea feature regularly in the work of Cadell and Peploe-though they usually painted them when the tide was out or ebbing.The pointed rock at left is called Cathedral Rock and the large one at right is Pulpit Rock.The two central rocks don't have names but you will see them in the artists' paintings. Staffa appears like a battleship about 5 miles away to the top left of the middle rock.The peaks of Rum are faintly visible near Cathedral Rock and about 40 miles away. |
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| Iona;Bay at the Back of the Ocean-looking towards Eilean Didil. |
