Scotland in B&W

It’s been a while since we returned from our Scotland trip in June this year… but only now I found the inspiration to revisit the photographs and edit a few of them in black & white. I knew quite a few would lend themselves to black & white because of the moody and/or contrasty conditions we found ourselves in quite often – but I had taken none of these specifically in or for black & white. I was enjoying this trip so much, found myself really connecting to the landscape and the land… But on future outings I do plan to set my camera to black & white more often and deliberately photograph in black & white.

Also, I was still getting a feel for my new camera system I had just switched to shortly before. I am now enjoying a much lighted travel backpack with the Olympus OM-1, coupled with the wonderful 12-100/F4 lens… this set is literally only half the weight of what I used to carry (last fall in Shikoku I still had my Leica SL-2S with the 24-70/F2.8 lens). Looking at the photographs, I see nothing missing, but holding and using the new camera is simply a joy (as well as the reduced weight, as mentioned before). Of course I also had with me a rather lightweight wide angle zoom (8-18 Panasonic-Leica). My Olympus 100-400 is really only for wildlife (being a full frame equivalent of 200-800mm) and could stay in the car most of the time, as the 12-100 has plenty of reach for landscapes (being a 200mm equivalent)… Also my tripod was only used in the dimmest of conditions, and could stay in the car most of the time as well, as the camera’s IBIS of 7+ stops is really awesome (coupled with the lenses IS)…

Below are just some pictures, for more please visit the Scotland gallery…