Thanks everyone
Yes the weather has been pretty much wall to wall horrible since just before Christmas and all across the UK, what with three named storms barrelling through one after another without much of a lull, widespread flooding throughout the country and gale force winds in excess of 70mph lasting for weeks at a time, yes it has been grim. But I suppose one of the advantages of me living in the centre of what I believe to be the most photographic part of Scotland and arguably the whole of the UK, means I can nip out with my camera at a moments notice, if ever the weather allows me even the most briefest of respites.
nice image dave I long to go to your area and shoot love the Isle of Skye
Well I do have my 270 Photographers Guide for the Isle of Skye and the North West of Scotland launching very soon containing 343 photographs, in fact I have just received the very first print run shipment of 100 copies at the end of last week, and which I am now currently in the midst of setting up an Amazon page to sell it through, as well as my own web site to advertise it on and stocking it in various shops around the region. Took me nearly nine years to write this book and a frightening amount (10,000 hours at least) of screen time working on it, but then it does contain everything I know about photography and image processing (including a wide range of post processing techniques never discussed before), as well as every photogenic location I have ever discovered across something like a 15 to 20,000 square mile area of the North West Scotland - so watch this space as they say and I will announce it here when it goes live. Although I suppose I could start shipping out direct orders for it now to anyone here on Lula who might be interested, so if you are, then please email me at
dmhickey@ymail.com so I can send you a 10 page preview of it first.
Oh and the retail price for the book is £24.95, which is more representative of the costs associated with a short run print job and the slice that Amazon will be taking from me than anything else
Dave
