The Swimming Ladies

These brave ladies were swimming in the sea at Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland today. The sea temperature here in Banff today is 10C(50F).

The Swimming Ladies – Richard Broom Photography

The Scottish Ghost Appears!

Now, it being Halloween and all, I thought I would take an image of an ancient Scottish grave (bottom image) down at the local mausoleum here in Banff, Scotland . Then, much to surprise, when I processed the image in Photoshop, what should appear but a spooky pair of hands coming at me from behind the gravestone (top image).

The question is, of course, do you believe me or do you believe Photoshop!

Happy Halloween!

The Scottish Ghost Appears – Richard Broom Photography

The Tanker

Living where we do, it isn’t unusual for us to see one of these ships when we look out of the kitchen window.

The Tanker – Richard Broom Photography

The Cottages

The Cottages – Richard Broom Photography

The Uphill Slog

The Uphill Slog – Richard Broom Photography

The 35

The 35 – Richard Broom Photography

The Scots Are Coming (2)

The Scots Are Coming (2) – Richard Broom Photography

The Shoemaker’s End

The Shoemaker’s End – Richard Broom Photography

A Moody Day in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

A Moody Day in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – Richard Broom Photography

The Rocky Shore on a Stormy Day

The Rock Shore on a Stormy Day – Richard Broom Photography

The Other Sodding Tractor

Please see my previous post and then join me as I try to record the tranquil sounds of the River Deveron, near to Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It clearly isn’t my day for field recording! Today is a public holiday and I would expect any self-respecting farmers to take a day off. Not in Banff. So please enjoy the tranquil sounds of the River Deveron passing you by and the delightful sound of a f**king tractor pull a rake around a nearby field. Using my directional parabolic mic (DM), I can hear the sounds of tractors and other industrial noises several kilometres away.

The Other Sodding Tractor

The Other Sodding Tractor – Richard Broom Photography

The Sodding Tractor!!!

Join me as I try to record the sound of birds today. It is public holiday here today in Scotland. There is no wind. It would have been a perfect day to record bird sounds in the woods near to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_HouseDuff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire. Wonderful bird sounds but oh my, the noise of a f**king tractor on Banff Golf Course provided unwanted background noise to the recording of the birds who were really going for it in the woods today. Pah!

The Sodding Tractor!!! – Richard Broom Photography

The Hat and the Dog…

The Hat and the Dog – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat

The Boat – Richard Broom Photography

The Girl in the Red Coat…

We’re firmly back in Scotland!

The Girl in the Red Coat – Richard Broom Photography

The Girl in the Red Coat – Richard Broom Photography

The Crow and the Tractor

Join me as as I tried to record the sounds of a crow but then a tractor came along and ploughed the nearby field. The field was close to the woods at Duff House, Banff, Aberdeenshire. You can hear the tractor driver lift the plough, rotate it and lower it again before turning round in order to plough in the opposite direction.

The Crow and the Tractor
The Crow and the Tractor – Richard Broom Photography

The Walk in the Woods…

Join me and enjoy the sounds from our dog walk in the woods near to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire, this morning. You’ll hear the sounds of woodland birds, including a fine woodpecker, streams and all the other sounds (including, if you listen very carefully, golf ball hits from the nearby Dufff House Royal Golf Club.)

All sounds recorded on my parabolic (directional) microphone using a ZoomH6 recorder (My Zoom F6 still hasn’t arrived!). The sound was mixed (using adaptive noise reduction) using Adobe Audition.

The Walk in the Woods…

The Walk in the Woods – Richard Broom Photography

The Boats

The Boats – Richard Broom Photography

The Big Birds and the Little Birds

Join us in our back garden where, because we live on the coast, we have seagulls swirling about over our heads all day. After a while, you stop noticing their shrieking (about a minute into the recording, the seagulls really shout out loud!). You can hear the tiny birds tweeting away. They sit in a tree in the garden waiting to be fed…always hungry.

The Seagull – Richard Broom Photography

The Parabolic Microphone

A new microphone system!

I have purchased a parabolic microphone from the Parabolic Microphone Company.

Today was the first day I ventured out into the woods with the ‘para-mic’ to test it out – results below.

Briefly, the parabolic microphone is a directional mic. Basically, point it at a sound source and press the record button (listen to the babbling brook recording above).

On this first try out down in the woods close to Duff House, I forgot to put the ‘wind condom’ on the dish (second image below) and so I picked up quite a bit of wind noise. Moreover, there was a gentle but steady wind through the trees in the wood and that gave me a small amount of background noise which I’ve managed to reduce in post-processing using Adobe Audition.

I used my Zoom H6 to record the sound. I’m still waiting for my Zoom F6 to arrive.

The first recordings will be coming up shortly. Please stay tuned.

The Parabolic mic (without wind sock) – Richard Broom Photography
The parabolic mic with the wind ‘condom’ attached – Richard Broom Photography

The Trawler Departs

The Trawler Departs – Richard Broom Photography

The Stella Maris up on the slip…

I like looking at these wooden hull fishing boats…

The Stella Maris up on the slip – Richard Broom Photography

The Ocean Lee Arrives

The Ocean Lee Arrives

The Fishing Vessel on the Slip…

The Fishing Vessel on the Slip – Richard Broom Photography

The Clean Bottom

You can’t beat having your bottom scraped…

The Clean Bottom – Richard Broom Photography

The boat on the slip…

The boat on the slip – Richard Broom Photography

The boat with the hole in it…

The boat with the hole in it – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat

The Boat – Richard Broom Photography

The Shipyard at Night

The Shipyard at Night – Richard Broom Photography

The Tiny Trawler

The Tiny Trawler – Richard Broom Photography

The Ocean Reaper

The Ocean Reaper – Richard Broom Photography

The Rope Catcher

The Rope Catcher – Richard Broom Photography

The Trawler Departs…

The Trawler Departs – Richard Broom Photography

The View Over The Water…

More images of Portsoy here.

The View Over The Water – Richard Broom Photography

The Sharonelle BF 18

The Sharonelle BF 18 – Richard Broom Photography

The Andy Capp’s Hat Fungi

For those people who remember Andy Capp and his creator Reg Smythe. The fungus is the right shape for Andy’s cap!

The Andy Capp’s Hat Fungi – Richard Broom Photography

The Slippery Slope

The Slippery Slope – Richard Broom Photography

The Just Reward

The Just Reward – Richard Broom Photography

The Chicken on the Rock

The Chicken on the Rock – Richard Broom Photography

The Prosperity

The Prosperity – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat on the Slip

The Boat on the Slip – Richard Broom Photography

The Text Chap

The Text Chap – Richard Broom Photography

The Voe Jarl Returns

The Voe Jarl is back in the harbour at Macduff

The Voe Jarl Returns – Richard Broom Photography

The Lass O’Doune

The Lass O’Doune – Richard Broom Photography

The List to Port

The List to Port – Richard Broom Photography

The Crane Engineer

The Crane Engineer – Richard Broom Photography

The Watchman

The Watchman – Richard Broom Photography

The Deep Ocean

The Deep Ocean – Richard Broom Photography

The Fisherman

The Fisherman – Richard Broom Photography

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat on the Slip

The Boat on the Slip – Richard Broom Photography

The Just Reward

A regular at Macduff Harbour

The Just Reward – Richard Broom Photography

The Trawler

The Trawler – Richard Broom Photography

The Little Toot

The Little Toot – Richard Broom Photography

The Cordelia-K’s Keep Door Closed Notice

The Cordelia-K’s Keep Door Closed Notice – Richard Broom Photography

The Back Passage

The Back Passage – Richard Broom Photography

The Fishing Nets

The Fishing Nets – Richard Broom Photography

The Fishing Vessel

The Fishing Vessel – Richard Broom Photography

The Fishing Boats in a Row

The Fishing Boats in a Row – Richard Broom Photography

The Boats in the Morning Sun

The Boats in the Morning Sun – Richard Broom Photography

The Other Screw

The Other Screw – Richard Broom Photography

The Screw

The Screw – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour

See a large versions of the images below here.

The Harbour – Richard Broom Photography

The Rois Mhairi

The Rois Mhairi – Richard Broom Photography

The Susan Bird

The Susan Bird – Richard Broom Photography

The Ski Jumper

The Ski Jumper – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour Café

The Harbour Café – Richard Broom Photography

The C-Fenna

A cross between a barge, a tug and a dive-support vessel. The C-Fenna is currently helping to connect offshore wind turbine cables to a shore station close to Banff, Scotland. The wind turbine are way out there in the Moray Firth.

The C-Fenna – Richard Broom Photography

The Lawret

The Lawret – Richard Broom Photography

The Sparkling Star

The Sparkling Star – Richard Broom Photography

The Woman And Her Dog

The Woman And Her Dog – Richard Broom Photography

The Forest Fungi

The Forest Fungi – Richard Broom Photography

The Telephone Box

…or the Blue Hour, whatever you wish it to be…

The Telephone Box – Richard Broom Photography

The Splash of Orange

The Splash of Orange – Richard Broom Photography

The Freshly Painted Bottom

You just can’t beat having a new coat of paint on your bottom…

The Freshly Painted Bottom – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour at Night…

The Harbour at Night – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat in the Sunset

The Boat in the Sunset – Richard Broom Photography

The Midnight Sun

This image taken way past midnight. Up here in the north of Scotland and, at this time of the year, the sun tries to stay with us for most of the day…

The Midnight Sun – Richard Broom Photography

The Slip is Open!

The Slipway at Macduff is open again…

The Slip is Open! – Richard Broom Photography

The stormy skies over Macduff

The stormy skies over Macduff – Richard Broom Photography

The Teddie Boy, Beached

The Teddie Boy, Beached – Richard Broom Photography

The Ocean Way at Sunset

The Ocean Way at Sunset BF 878 – Richard Broom Photography

The Tiny Trawler

The Tiny Trawler – Richard Broom Photography

The late afternoon sail away…

The late afternoon sail away – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour, Portsoy

Portsoy Harbour

The Harbour, Portsoy – Richard Broom Photography

The Boat and the Sun

The Boat and the Sun – Richard Broom Photography

The Engine Starter

The boat, waiting…

The boat, waiting – Richard Broom Photography

The Fisherman

The Fisherman – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour, Portsoy

Portsoy Harbour

The Harbour, Portsoy – Richard Broom Photography

The Nimble Departs

The Nimble Departs – Richard Broom Photography

The Action End…

The action end of a modern trawler…

The Action End – Richard Broom Photography

The Friendly Isle Departs

The Friendly Isle departs Macduff Harbour

The Friendly Isle Departs – Richard Broom Photography

The Nimble Fisherman

The Nimble Fisherman – Richard Broom Photography

The Harbour Entrance (Banff, Scotland)

The Harbour Entrance (Banff, Scotland) – Richard Broom Photography

The Sun Worshipper

The Sun Worshipper – Richard Broom Photography

The Lover’s Leap

Don’t jump!!!

The Lover’s Leap – Richard Broom Photography

The Bollard and the Knots

The Bollard and the Knots – Richard Broom Photography
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