Posts about Scotland
Oronsay Island
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A picturesque dog walk to the tidal island of Oronsay, off the coast of the Isle of Skye.
Arrival on the coast of Skye
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After around 2,300 kilometres of driving, a well-earned rest stop with family by the sea.
Canisp from Loch Awe
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Spontaneously changing my plans for a day’s hiking to achieve the summit of Canisp, a large and rocky hill in the Assynt region of Scotland.
Meall an Leathaid
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The road from Easter Ross into the Strathrusdale valley leads into what I felt was the middle of nowhere.
Random things in May
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Pottering at home, a trip to Scotland and photographing wild flowers in Switzerland.
Driving to the coast
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This music video by Bayview Sounds for their song “Home Alone” is very evocative of my trips to the northern and eastern Scottish coasts, with sea haar and low sun whilst driving along narrow roads. (The video was actually filmed in the far northern Scottish county of Caithness, which feels like the end of the…
Random things in December
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The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.
Once upon a time on Skye
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Some panoramic views of the Isle of Skye, shot way back in 2005.
Random things in January
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It seems to stick in my mind that by the time we get to January, we’re well into winter. But the snow and ice often doesn’t arrive where I live until January or February, although that doesn’t preclude it being pretty damned cold from time to time. January this year marked the arrival of my…
The Lost World of Glascarnoch
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Aerial views of a flooded glen in the wilds of northern Scotland, with low water levels exposing the old road.
The wilds of Scotland
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Even after the many miles of road travel to the populated north of Scotland, the next stage out into the northern Highlands, delineated by the huge Great Glen between Oban and Inverness, is something else entirely. Leaving dual carriageways behind on the Black Isle and heading west, especially during inclement weather, both the roads and the landscape become increasingly…
The pinnacle of the pool river
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Hiking in the wild, remote and dramatic landscape of the north-west of Scotland last autumn.
Scotland at night
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Wonderful and unusual drone and time-lapse sequences from the Visit Scotland YouTube channel.
Spending three weeks in one of the most beautiful parts of the world this summer.
You can’t protect people against themselves
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Giving up on trying to make sense of the public attitude to the coronavirus.
After buying a Fujifilm X-T3 camera, I took it out into the Scottish Highlands between Garve and Torridon to capture the remote landscape.
