The sun is shining; it's the warmest day we've had since about mid-November; there's a feeling of spring about to arrive; Silver Efex Pro is installed and working and, apart from my concerns that not all is well-in-the-world for so many people, all is well in my world today.
Silver Efex Pro will undoubtedly make me the brilliant photographer that I always knew I could be. It's not about knowledge or skills ... it's all about the equipment! Or maybe not!
Anyway .... I've been sitting on this for nearly a year. I could never get it to match the vision I had at the time I pressed the button.
Even outwith the major cities with their social deprivations, Scotland is not always the nice, pretty place of Lochs and Glens, Heather and Haggis, Tartan-clad bagpipe players of popular imagination.
Rob's Wales series inspired me to think what the first image I could subject Silver Efex Pro to, could be.
40D, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ 11mm. ISO 100. 1/125@f5.6. 07:14am.