Posts about Scotland
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A dramatic and cold landscape, photographed twelve years ago during one of my first outings in into the winter landscape of Ross and Cromarty. The road from Easter Ross into the Strathrusdale valley leads into what I felt was the middle of nowhere, but as I explored further, I found a smattering of crofts and…
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Pottering at home, a trip to Scotland and photographing wild flowers in Switzerland.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Aerial views of a flooded glen in the wilds of northern Scotland, with low water levels exposing the old road.
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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…
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Hiking in the wild, remote and dramatic landscape of the north-west of Scotland last autumn.
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Wonderful and unusual drone and time-lapse sequences from the Visit Scotland YouTube channel.
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Spending three weeks in one of the most beautiful parts of the world this summer.
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Giving up on trying to make sense of the public attitude to the coronavirus.
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After buying a Fujifilm X-T3 camera, I took it out into the Scottish Highlands between Garve and Torridon to capture the remote landscape.
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2019 was my second year with a drone, and I continued to experiment with the possibilities and travel to places with the specific aim of photographing them from the air.
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Photographs of the castle and gardens at Cawdor, near Nairn in Scotland.
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It’s been a very difficult year, but the sadness has been diluted a little with some lovely memories along the way. Here’s to a better 2019.
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We spent the Christmas and New Year period travelling to Scotland and back by road again.
