St Andrews – Old Course

The challenge of photographing golf courses is often the difficulty associated with capturing the feeling of what it is like to actually be there – to capture the soul of the place, if you like. Nowhere has this been tried more often than at St Andrews; The Home of Golf, where the ghosts of golf’s past seem to haunt every fairway and bunker. I’ve been trying to seize that moment for a number of years and in this shot from 2014, I think I got somewhere close to it. Shot at 04:49am, the sun had only just breached the horizon and the resulting glow had an ethereal quality. The image shows the smooth run-up to the one of the toughest greens in the world, which somehow looks inviting in the warm light. Anyway, no photographic compilation would be complete without a picture from my home town!

• Date of Shot

  06/07/2014

• Camera Used

  Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM

• Technical

  1/4 sec, f/14, ISO 160

• Image Reference Number

  oc-06-07-14-17-4

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