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\"Heather<\/a>

Heather Road<\/p><\/div>\n

Most roads on the Hebrides (at least on the Uists, and Benbecula where we spent out time) are one-lane, with pull outs every 1\/4 mile or so for meeting cars. It works surprisingly well. This is a local road that runs down the middle of North Uist, and it very definitely off the beaten path. We drove the length of it and did not meet more than one or two cars.<\/p>\n

And, of course, Heather is Scotland. And so too are the plantations. We saw them all through the highlands, and here they from the green triangle on the right horizon.<\/p>\n

I love the play of the light across the landscape in this shot, taken about 10 AM, when the Hebrides summer sun was still about as low as we get it in Maine at 6 AM.<\/p>\n

Sony DSC H50 at full wide (31mm equivalent). F4.0 @ 1\/250th @ ISO 100. Programed Auto.<\/p>\n

In Lightroom, I applied quite a bit of Recovery for the sky, added some Fill Light for the foreground, as well as Vibrance and Clarity in the Presence panel. I also boosted the luminance of the magenta, purple, and green channels to make the landscape and the heather, in particular, more vibrant.<\/p>\n

From the Scotland <\/a>gallery.<\/p>\n

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