Walking up to the top of Gallowhill Wood is my new favorite walk and I managed to sell it as a good firework-viewpoint.

I took quite a few photos which I’ve yet to edit but since I started 2017 with a photo of me taking photos I thought I’d start 2018 the same way. The only difference is that I took this photo, if you look closely, you can see the strap of the remote shutter dangling from my right hand.

Happy New Year!

In the end, this is the only photo I’ve decided to post from hogmanay at Gallowhill. I took a long running one that didn’t turn out as well as I expected.

Most of the other ones didn’t really have any star interest and instead just looked like noisy daytime shots. I quite enjoyed playing with the Photoshop B&W raw tools to bring out the plough in this one.

This is my first proper post of the year so I should outline my new rules for 2018.

• Post photos within 24hrs of taking them
• Post photos in the order they were taken
• Square photos only - no videos or multi-photo posts
• No ‘overshare’, leave an hour at least between posts

I’m finding no end of uses for the fisheye lens - forests being the latest frontier.

The #shotonmoment telephoto is pretty useful in getting a little closer into landscapes like this but the fringing is a bit annoying. It can be sharpened out a little but it basically needs to be cropped off.