This photo was taken in: Scotland
This photo was taken with: Shot on Nikon D70 with Sigma 70-300mm f 4 - f 5.6 Apo lens. and tweaked a little in Photoshop.
Notes on this photo: Female

The photo was taken by: Alan Drummie ,

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