23/3/24
A small selection of
pictures taken yesterday afternoon on a stroll along the Silverburn from
Ballasalla in the sunshine.
Insta360 Ace Pro 22/3/24
    
    
   
The Monk's Well
   
The Abbey Memorial Church,
Ballasalla
  
Some dramatic skies
taken from home as sunset approached.
Insta360 Ace Pro
  
It's half past midnight
and the moon is illuminating the clouds.
21/3/24
I had a bit of a busy
day yesterday, so didn't have to to process anything apart from the aerial
panoramas. I also took some ground level pictures on my walk around
Glen Roy, but these are more aerial shots of the Glen Roy Mine, which isn't
really visible from public land, except at a distance. The mine was
first worked in 1864 and finally closed in 1881. There are substantial
remains including the pillars to support and aqueduct to drive a water
wheel.
DJI Mini 2 19/3/24
    
Ground level pictures
taken on the walk around Glen Roy
    
    
    
    
20/3/24
Yesterday afternoon
I took a walk around Glen Roy, starting and finishing at the Axnfell Plantation
car park. In addition to more normal cameras I took the mini drone
along with me and shot these panoramic views at different locations around
the glen. Unfortunately the sun chose to hide behind some dark clouds!
DJI Mini 2 19/3/24
 
  
18/3/24
A walk yesterday afternoon
from Port Mooar to Maughold village via the coast path before returning
via the road. Apparently I chose the wrong part of the island for
a walk as it was dull and grey for all of my walk and rained from Maughold
back to Port Mooar, whereas it was sunny over in Ballaugh!
I had a quick stop on
the way to Port Mooar for a couple of pictures of the Dreemskerry stop
on the Manx Electric Railway and 'George's Seat'
Insta360 Ace Pro 17/3/24
 
    
    
    
    
16/3/24
Yesterday afternoon
I revisited the Injebreck Waterfall, mainly to shoot some video clips.
Whilst I had shot some video on the previous day, using the Ace Pro, I
really wanted to use the Osmo P3 as I prefer it for video with its gimble
and radio microphone. Water levels were considerably lower though,
but I did manage to access the upper levels of the waterfall that are normally
hidden from view. It's not easy to get to them and I wouldn't recommend
trying unless you are very confident as there is no pathway and it's very
steep and slippery in places, with a big drop down to the waterfall if
you miss your step. Although the main reason was to shoot the video
clips, I also took some still pictures. The first two are the easily
accessible lower section, the last three are on the upper sections, taken
using the Osmo P3's very useful '3x3 Panorama' feature, which uses the
gimble to shoot a block of nine pictures that are then stitched together
in the camera.
DJI Osmo Pocket 3
15/3/24
 
  
The video clips that
I shot around Injebreck Waterfall yesterday afternoon have now been edited
and uploaded to YouTube. In all there were around fifty of them,
but some were duplicates or just rejected as they disn't really fit in
with the flow. I ended up with just over twelve minutes in the end
product!
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 (with
one clip from the Ace Pro) 15/3/24
15/3/24
The Isle of Man Wildlife
Trust are planting a new
Temperate Rainforest in the East Baldwin Valley and judging by yesterday's
weather it should do well! I don't think that our house (500 ft above
sea level) was ever out of the clouds and it rained solidly for most of
the day. In the afternoon the rain started to get lighter and I set
out to get some pictures of the Injebreck waterfall, hopefully with lots
of water coming down and it didn't disappoint!
Insta360 Ace Pro 14/3/24
    
    
    
    
From Injebreck Hill
I continued via Brandywell and into Druidale, for a quick photo session
near Montpelier House.
    
    
13/3/24
A return visit to the
Tynwald National Park to view the Magnolia - and we found some more!
Panasonic FZ82
12/3/24
    
    
    
12/3/24
With the unsettled weather
looking to continue for a while, I took advantage of a day with very light
winds for a bit of aerial photography around Sulby Reservoir. It
was still generally very cloudy, but with no rain, and I hoped for some
good reflections off the water. Unfortunately there was sufficient
breeze up there to disturb the surface of the water, so I decided
to just to take some more general aerial shots and panoramas. In
total I ended up shooting 8 panoramas but I narrowed it down to six for
display here as some were fairly similar. If you do want to see the
others, you'll need to visit my Kuula
workspace.
DJI Mini 2 11/3/24
    
   
   
  
  
11/3/24
We seem to have had
a succession of days with poor weather for photography, wet, windy or just
generally cloudy and dull, but yesterday afternoon looked like there might
be a small 'window' in the bad weather. Although it was raining at
home, looking out of the window to the west seemed to be brighter, so I
headed off in that direction, stopping at St John's for a walk in the national
park there, before extending it a little towards the Brack-a-Broom lane.
Insta360 Ace Pro
10/3/24
    
    
    
    
    
   
7/3/24
Tuesday afternoon I
fancied a bit of a walk and photo session. Where I live on the east
side of the island it was rather grey and dull with cloud on the hills,
so after consulting the very useful windy.com
it looked like the west coast might be brighter so I decided to re-visit
the beach and caves at Lhiannag, north of Peel. Access to the caves
is only possible at low tides and after consulting a tide prediction app
I though that it might just be possible, although I would have to be very
careful as the tide was on the rise. The cliffs behind the main beach
are very susceptible to land slips and I was a bit shocked when I was there
to see that it looked like there had been several more since I was last
there in November. On the way back up I had a long chat to the lady
who farms there and she was of the opinion that works carried out on the
footpath that follows the old railway line had cut drainage and made the
situation much worse.
Insta360 Ace Pro, Panasonic
TZ60 & DJI Mini 2 5/3/24
    
    
    
I'd brought the mini
drone along with me, hoping to fly from the far side of the caves, but
due to the tide state there was not time for that, but on regaining the
main beach I decided to fly from there, looking at both the headlands
and the shifting cliffs behind the beach.
   
 
    
I finished my visit
with a stroll along the beach to Gob y Deigan which forms the northern
headland.
    
    
5/3/24
Another trip out yesterday
saw us pay a short visit to Niarbyl in the afternoon. After a sunny
morning I had initially been a bit disappointed when it started to cloud
over, but in fact I think that the clouds made the pictures a bit special.
Insta360 Ace Pro
4/3/24
    
    
4/3/24
A few pictures from
a little trip out yesterday afternoon after a very nice Sunday lunch at
the Creg-ny-Baa!
Insta360 Ace Pro &
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 3/3/24
  
    
 
3/3/24
A bit of an experiment!
I looked out of the window at around 02:15 and noticed the moon shining
through clouds an illuminating the sea. I wondered how the Ace Pro
would manage such a low light scene and it did really well, in HDR mode
and just braced against the window frame.
Insta360 Ace Pro 1/3/24
A Saturday afternoon
trip to 'Ramsey and the North'
Insta360 Ace Pro &
Panasonic FZ82 2/3/24
Ramsey
    
The Point of Ayre
    
Cronk-y-Bing
  
Jurby Church
   
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