A change of scenery
Posted by ByTor in Blog, Photography, Places, tags: change_of_scenery, exhaustion, heavy_rain, salmon_leap, spout, torrent, waterfall, waterflow |
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Well, literally a change of scenery. I decided to show what else I can do, beyond photographs of beautiful women.
This is the Buchanty Spout, near Crieff in Perthshire. Its a salmon leap.
It does make me wonder if salmon are completely insane though. While I was there photographing, there were salmon trying to leap up this torrent of water to get back up stream to their spawning grounds. The river was full and wild after days of heavy rain and, as you can see it would definitely be called “rapid”, but there they were, the salmon, taking a run, or swim, at the waterfall, hoping to leap up and past the next section so they can get up river for a bit of reproducing before they drop dead from exhaustion.
Anyway, enjoy. There are a couple of other pictures of the river that feeds this, so have a look.
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Spawn ‘til you die!
Randomly found you on Technorati. I dig your photos!
Happy New Year!
Laura
I was cruising Technorati when I ran across your blog site. Great job with it. Would lovew to see more scenary collections of photos.
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Michael
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Hi Graeme
I was at this location just this week. The falls weren’t quite as fierce as in your picture, but the salmon were nevertheless in profusion. My pictures aren’t so good, but feel free to take a look: http://www.aardvarktravel.net/chat/viewtopic.php?t=31464
There’s also a short video on my blog here: http://www.aluxurytravelblog.com/2007/11/01/salmon-leaping-at-buchanty-spout-near-crieff-scotland/
It was the first time I’ve ever seen this spectacle. What an experience!
All the best
Paul