Scotland: Home of Golf
How to best photograph relatively flat land is one of life’s little conundrums that is easily solved when you consider the angles of daylight available to you.
The shadows created by low-angle lighting adds depth, dimension, and sometimes a stark beauty to landscapes that seem dull by comparison in the light of midday.
Here’s an example from a few miles from home – an early morning view of Cape Henlopen taken in mid-July 2020 at 06:59 a.m.. EDT:
Cape Henlopen, Delaware
Iain M. Lowe and Christopher J. Lowe understand how to handle this challenge and did so beautifully in this new coffee-table picture book.
Using shots taken with drone cameras and the low sunlight angles that can easily be had in Scotland’s early morning and late afternoon or summer evenings, the Lowes captured some great images of fourteen links courses throughout that very northern country.
Several courses will be familiar to even non-golfers, such as The Old Course at St. Andrews or Trump International, perhaps better known for its owner than the course itself. Others are relative newcomers but equally appealing visually, such as Dumbarnie Links a few miles south of St. Andrews, or Castle Stuart in the Highlands near Inverness.
For each course, David Joy provides a detailed description, its place in golf history, and occasionally an explanation of how to play some of the holes shown in the photographs. He also supplements the photographs and commentary with his own illustrations to enhance the reader’s experience.
Scotland: Home of Golf
I enjoyed the multi-hole photography the best. In addition to showing the courses in their best light both literally and figuratively, these pictures also provide useful examples of how a golf course design can make best use of the terrain on which it lightly rests.
This is a pleasant addition to the already sizable options for golf-themed coffee-table books. It takes advantage of new drone technology to show some very familiar places in new and flattering ways.
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