In the middle of January, I went for a drive around Glen Lyon. There was enough snow lying that the...
Landscape, Photography and Land Management
This is going to be a long post, drawing on several disparate areas of experience and interest. Welcome to my...
Autumn Holiday 2016: Heading Home
Having spent a few days based in my favourite Glen Affric hunting scenery up in the far North, I drove...
At Tarbat Ness
Continuing the third day of my holiday last November, having been to the Reelig Glen in the morning, with the...
Chilling with the trees
On the third day of my holiday last year, the weather took a turn for the worse and my chosen...
Landscape and Geology – an NC500 road-trip
Back last November I spent a very happy few days staying up North; the first day was spent in Glen...
Winter along the Provost’s Walk
This is fast becoming one of my favourite walks around town - not least because it's less muddy than the...
Pentax K-1: an open-source photo-processing workflow
There is a trope that photography involves taking a single RAW image, hunching over the desktop poking sliders in Lightroom,...
Glen Affric: Light
We've had water, trees, a morning sunrise: now for that dash of extra magic with the most beautiful light. [gallery...
Around Glen Affric 3: Morning Sunrise
I first visited Glen Affric in September 2006, more or less 10 years ago. Not long after, I discovered the...
Around Glen Affric: Trees
Having contemplated the role of water in the landscape, the second aspect by which to contemplate Glen Affric is the...
Around Glen Affric: water
I had a short holiday at the start of last November, a few days spent in Glen Affric. There are...
eBay + PayPal: Considered Harmful
I forget exactly when I made my first purchase from eBay, but given how my PayPal account was registered in...
Along Loch Tay
It's a classic viewpoint - at the head of Loch Tay standing on the shores at Kenmore, looking down the...
Around the Black Mount
[caption id="attachment_2787" align="alignright" width="480"] Detail of blades of grass poking throuhg a frozen Lochan na h'Achlaise, Rannoch Moor.[/caption] At the...