{"id":3499,"date":"2018-10-13T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2021-07-04T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T10:05:05","slug":"purple-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/purple-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Northwest Highlands of Scotland.&nbsp;August 18, 2018. Photoessay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wego.here.com\/?map=58.47417,-4.77551,10,normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie.png\" alt=\"From Balnakeil Bay to Kinlochbervie, Northwest Highlands of Scotland\" class=\"wp-image-3502\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie.png 1555w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Balnakeil-Kinlochbervie-700x700.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption> \u00a9 2018 HERE, OGL. A: Balnakeil Bay; B: Kinlochbervie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting after <a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/chocolate-thebesthotchocolate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TheBestHotChocolate<\/a> at Balnakeil Bay  in the rain, I turned to the South along Kyle of Durness and ended up with Prince&#8217; Purple Rain at Kinlochbervie harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enjoying Prince&#8217; Purple Rain. In the Rain. <br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Balnakeil Bay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rain all over the sandy beach and tons of greys &#8211; true monochrome with a slight touch of green. I love those tones.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2649\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1.jpg\" alt=\"Balnakeil Bay\" class=\"wp-image-3509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321482-1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Balnakeil Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2649\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1.jpg\" alt=\"Balnakeil Bay\" class=\"wp-image-3508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321484-1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Balnakeil Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4928\" height=\"3264\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507.jpg\" alt=\"Balnakeil Bay, Processed with VSCO with x1 preset\" class=\"wp-image-3504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507.jpg 4928w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/20180804_131507-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4928px) 100vw, 4928px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>(*) Balnakeil Bay. These are not the Northern Lights, the image was processed in VSCO with x1 preset \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kyle of Durness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dark mystical sadness all along my way.<br>Pouring rain and stormy gusts all over the day.<br>Missing daylight. Missing colors.<br>Solitude and melancholy.<\/p><p>Feeling alone. Being homesick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The best location to be right now would be in front of the warm fire place in the lonely lodge on the opposite side of Kyle of Durness sipping one of <a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/chocolate-thebesthotchocolate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#TheBestHotChocolates of Cocoa Mountain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1640\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle of Durness\" data-id=\"3505\" class=\"wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1-1024x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321487-1-700x287.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1640\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle of Durness\" data-id=\"3507\" class=\"wp-image-3507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1-1024x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321486-1-700x287.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you spot the lonely lodge? View to a) the North, b) the South.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#stopbeinghomesick.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My hair is #gettingwet but I am #waterandweathersealed \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kinlochbervie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At Kinlochbervie the weather is getting slightly better &#8211; finally! And the colors are getting more and more purple. And with them my mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovely warm colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3373\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kinlochbervie\" class=\"wp-image-3515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321492-1-700x590.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Purple. Rain at the harbour of Kinlochbervie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2649\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kinlochbervie\" class=\"wp-image-3514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321491-1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Purple. Rain at the harbour of Kinlochbervie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2649\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kinlochbervie\" class=\"wp-image-3513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0321489-1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4000px) 100vw, 4000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Purple. Rain at the harbour of Kinlochbervie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The best location for Prince&#8217; Purple Rain is Kinlochbervie harbour.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to Prince &#8211; Purple Rain &#8211; Official Video, \u00a9Prince.<br>Prince&#8217; best performance ever. At Kinlochbervie harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prince-Purple_Rain.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Purple Rain, Official Video. \u00a9Prince. Soundtrack of the Official Video:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#feelinghappyagain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricoh-imaging.ch\/de\/kompaktkameras\/group\/5\/body\/overview\/gr-II.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ricoh GR II<\/a>, GR Lens f=18.3 mm 1:2.8. .DNG RAW format. Edited in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/ch_de\/creativecloud\/photography.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adobe Photoshop Lightroom<\/a>, and (*) edited in <a href=\"https:\/\/vsco.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VSCO<\/a> on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/ch\/smartphones\/galaxy-a5-2016-a510f\/SM-A510FZWAAUT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung A5 (2016)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you like this photoessay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thank you for your comments!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your comment in the comment section below is highly appreciated, thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\">Home<\/a><br>Thank you for reading.<br>You can sign up for my newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/subscribe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/purple-rain\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Purple Rain\"><p>Enjoying Prince&#8217; Purple Rain in the rain.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[78,700,706,699,567,537,371,708,707,677,709,695,710,711,704,705,126,564,563,363,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-3499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-photography","8":"tag-speckundme","9":"tag-balnakeil","10":"tag-balnakeil-bay","11":"tag-durness","12":"tag-gr2","13":"tag-harbour","14":"tag-highlands-of-scotland","15":"tag-kinlochbervie","16":"tag-kyle-of-durness","17":"tag-northwest-highlands","18":"tag-northwest-highlands-of-scotland","19":"tag-pink","20":"tag-prince","21":"tag-prince-purpla-rain","22":"tag-purple","23":"tag-purple-rain","24":"tag-rain","25":"tag-ricoh","26":"tag-ricoh-gr-ii","27":"tag-scotland","28":"tag-speckund","29":"h-entry","30":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}