Time to wipe the slate clean and start updating the site anew. Now that I'm out and about working most days it's difficult to find the time to update the site in the regular way that I used to, and the longer I leave it the more pictures get queued up and we end up with these month-long gaps between updates. So to avoid that happening again, from now on I'll be going back to regular updates but posting only the photos that I've got something to say about, whether that's the background story or some technical details, or if I just particularly like the photo.

Let's kick off the new year with this view of the fireworks over Tain high street during tonight's Hogmanay party. This isn't the photo you'll be seeing in the paper as it's a composite of three frames, which of course would be totally unethical for editorial but it's fine for posting here.

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Update:

Here's a better version. Ridiculously complicated to make but I thought there was potential for a good image here so I persevered. This is a composite of 4 images. The first 3 images were tone-mapped HDR versions of 3 separate frames, each made from 5 raw conversions with exposure compensation ranging from 0 to -4 at 1-stop intervals. The 4th frame was the original composite of the jpegs. So really there was a total of 18 images used to make this version!

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