Capturing the beauty of Scotland one picture at a time.
On a very wet and extremely grey day last year, once lockdown had been relaxed a little, I chose to explore the old ships graveyard at Newshot Island, near Erskine. Although situated just 300m from a housing estate, it’s not the easiest place to get to, at least, the main group of wrecks isn’t. Whether …
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There is nothing quite like photographing on a cold and frosty morning, literally nothing like it, as its bloody freezing! One morning last week I sat in work looking out of the window and everything was slowly being whitewashed, there was a freezing fog, low cloud cover and a light dusting of snow. As I …
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The sunsets recently have been beautiful, some of the best that I've seen in a long time. Each night as I look out of my front window I think, I need to get out and capture one of these. I'm always full of good intentions. So last night, there I was heading to the supermarket …
Well it happened again! Once more I've fallen into a lull and I've been neglecting my photography. The reason? Well, part of its time, part of it's the stress of being a parent, a husband and working full time too. How do other people manage and still fit in a social life? Anyway, I recently …
Continue reading "The wider view. "
On Saturday I managed my first trip out alone with the camera in quite some time. I was aiming to catch the sunrise however I slept in a little and almost missed it. I had decided the night before that I would go to Blackhill. It's one of the highest hills in the area …
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Before I start, I'll apologise for the lower resolution images used on this post. In this trip out I used only my mobile phone (LG G2) for photos. I recently unlocked my phone and have since installed a custom camera that allows manual settings and Adobe DNG RAW files. So all photos were taken as …
Continue reading "RAW around the edges. A day at Loch Leven."
First of all let me apologise as its been weeks between posts, I just can't seem to find the time to keep this site going, however I am determined I'm not giving up. Most weekends I have been out somewhere and I do have photos to post. I think though I am going to have to start …
Continue reading "A walk through history"
A couple of weeks back on a smashing sunny day we took a trip out towards Falkirk. We had planned for a while to go visit the Kelpies and finally managed to find the time. Now these horses have to be one of the most photographed landmarks in Scotland recently, everyone has a pic or …
Continue reading "The water horse"
Well this last few weeks the weather seems to have been all over the place. It wasn't to long ago we managed 3 seasons in one day! All of a sudden though we have some sunshine and warmth, good old Scottish shorts and t-shirt weather (10°+!). So, it was only the 2nd day of the …
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I've made a decision to go out walking every 2nd Saturday morning (it's my day off). Yesterday was that Saturday. 5:40am, up and out the door. Grey clouds and heavy rain, a real miserable morning to be doing anything. A quick look at the weather and over towards Edinburgh seemed dry (for the time being …
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Recently I found myself in Cumbernauld with a couple of hours to kill and little to do. Fortunately I had my camera in the boot of my car. This was not a planned outing and I had no idea where to go locally so I went a short drive. Only 5 minutes away I found …
Continue reading "Forth and Clyde Canal – Auchinstarry Marina (Kilsyth)"
