Mallaig in Detail - Warning, Long Thread!

[Zuiko]

Last week I travelled to Scotland for a few days with an old friend. You can read my account of the trip and see most of the pictures in my Zenfolio Blog (three seperate parts) but there were a lot of additional pictures of the industrial side of Mallaig and many small details observed that are too numerous to have included in the blog. Instead I have included them here in a seperate thread. All taken on an Olympus E-PL1 with Panasonic 14-45mm kit lens.

Thanks for looking this far!

[Kees]

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Really nice shots. I enjoyed looking at them!

[StephenL]

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Good set. Love the whisky tankers!

[OlyPaul]

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A lot of varied nice shots John.

I did enjoy the blog article John.

[David Morison]

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Excellent series showing the true nature of a West Highland port, not just a stopping place on the way to the isles. You have a keen eye for obscure detail which I really like - all the things that most people just pass by without noticing. I've spent some time loafing around Mallaig myself, mainly waiting for the boat to Knoydart, did you go there? The Old Forge at Inverie on Knoydart is Britain's most remote Mailand pub and is a real delight. Was "The Jacobite" steam loco in Town? I travelled to Mallaig once from Fort William on a train pulled by it but didn't have a camera with me, something I continually regret.

David

[LMGruchy]

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I love No 3, and there are some poignant photos there.

[kidslateinlife]

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John

You definately have an eye for the small details, and I am quite envious of your trip to Mallaig, on my recent trip I had planned to try and catch an image of the steam train en-route to Mallaig, regretfully I only made it as far as Oban

A great set of alternate viewpoint images.

Best wishes........Alan

[IainMacD]

[Guest]

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A very interesting series - good captures. Nice story.

[snaarman]

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Oooh! Lots of lovely tiny details. Just my cup of tea. The blog entries are great: I wish I could write that well...

Shot no 3 is great, but it disturbs me, I'm not certain if that is what went in the lens, or if some of it came out of the computer :-)

Speaking of lens. How do you get on with the 14-45? I like mine as a compact carry round, but I prefer the 14-54 even though it's huge and heavy...

Pete

[Wee man]

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Nice series; and its that man again.

[maccabeej]

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Hi John
I detect an abundance of mojo here. Glad to see you back to top form. I like the details and the door.
Jim

[Zuiko]

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Thanks guys, glad you like them.

[Zuiko]

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Excellent series showing the true nature of a West Highland port, not just a stopping place on the way to the isles. You have a keen eye for obscure detail which I really like - all the things that most people just pass by without noticing. I've spent some time loafing around Mallaig myself, mainly waiting for the boat to Knoydart, did you go there? The Old Forge at Inverie on Knoydart is Britain's most remote Mailand pub and is a real delight. Was "The Jacobite" steam loco in Town? I travelled to Mallaig once from Fort William on a train pulled by it but didn't have a camera with me, something I continually regret.

David

Hi David,

I didn't get to Knoydart on this trip; there wasn't time. Last time I was there was in 1986 when I backpacked in from Kinloch Hourn with two friends (one of them David) and spent a week camped at Barrisdale Bay. We had a week of scorching sunshine and one day spent 13 hours climbing Ladhar Bheinn, stopping to skinny dip in every pool in Coire Dhorcail and snoozing for an hour on the summit. A picture I took of David in Choire Dhorcail (with his clothes on!) was used as a front cover for The Great Outdoors. We also climbed Meall Buidhe, Luinne Bheinn (Loony Bin) and Sgurr a Choire-bheithe (a Corbet one metre short of a Munro). And yes, we made it to the pub at Inverie!

Those were the days. I was young, healthy, wealthy and fit as a butcher's dog.

The Jacobite was in town, although I didn't get a particularly special picture.

I also snapped a man changing the points.

[timmypreston]

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Some very interesting detail shots, I particularly like the Yale lock on the yellow background and also the red doors in the white wall. Whenever I try to do this the pictures just appear boring! Definately an art to picking the right subject.