Another set from a photo-excursion in May this year, directly contrasting with the pleasure of nature's bluebells earlier in the...
Around Birnam Hill: landscape old and new
The last in a small series of photos from Birnam Hill near Dunkeld. As far as I can tell, the...
Glen Turret: Lumpy Landscape
Glen Turret is an obvious glacial valley. At the north end of the loch the land is covered with undulating...
Portknockie (3/3): Bow-Fiddle
I've left the usual photos to last, seeing as how everyone else has shot this scene before. It wasn't particularly...
Portknockie (2/3): colourful rocks
The coast at Portknockie features an intermingling of Cullen quartzite (dating from Lower Dalradian times, 650 million years ago during...
Around Birnam Hill
A handful of photos from a stroll up Birnam Hill near Dunkeld. It makes a great weekend afternoon stroll -...
Favoured landscape: details
Photos from around the Highland Boundary Fault: the first psammite / semi-pelite rocks beside the path, a valley through which...
A Favourite Walk
Around January I discovered a new walk near Dunkeld that quickly became a favourite way to spend a weekend afternoon....
Glen Affric: Rockery
There's an impressive outcrop of rocks (psammite and semi-pelite, looking rather like limestone) near the waterfalls in the River Affric....
Crail Harbour Rocks (3): optimum light
[gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="1617,1616"] A continuation of, and the latest in, the "Crail Harbour Rocks" theme - I've already posted...
Crail: colour
[gallery size="medium" ids="1622,1621,1619"] Three views of the beach at Crail - for the geologists, the rock is old red Devonian...
The Uses of Karst Landscape
Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum, characterised by...
Ailsa Craig
One of my favourite bits of coastline is that just north of Lendalfoot on the A77 through Ayrshire, for its...