Railway Art in the Wilderness
Today I thought I had blown my possibility of blipping away! We set off on a 75 mile drive from Loch Tay, round Loch Rannoch, up to the road end at the Station on the edge of Scotland's great, wet, boggy desert of the Muir of Rannoch. The colours were tremendous, though not many reds yet, and then as we passed between the Loch and the Black Wood of Rannoch, I realised that I had left the camera in our accommodation. Stupid boy!
However, iPad to the rescue! I got my shots of the Rannoch Crab -- no claws, look it up -- the interior of the Black Wood, a waterfall, and even a Dipper on a rock in the loch. Only the Dipper pic totally failed, because of the wide angle lens of the iPad. The bird was a minute black dot with a mini smudge of white on a tiny rock in a huge expanse of water -- as I knew it would be, but I still pressed the shutter!
But choice fell on this derelict railway shed with etched windows beside this remote section of the West Highland Line. Who did it the artwork, when and why? But it's my blip for today. Och, weel...
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