It feels funny to think that back in the early 1990s Serif was known for PagePlus, in the days when...
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...
At Tarbat Ness
Continuing the third day of my holiday last November, having been to the Reelig Glen in the morning, with the...
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...
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,...
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...
Hogmanay 2016/2017
Happy new year! I saw the year in from Blackford Hill looking at the fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. Watching folks...
Loch Lomond: At Inversnaid
There's a couple of picturesque views to be had just below the hotel at Inversnaid harbour - the waterfall cascading...
Olympus Pen-F: first excursion photos
I've not wasted time before getting out and about with the new camera. I saw a photo on flickr of...
Aurora, March 2016
Arguably an even more impressive display of the Aurora this evening than the one over New Year. I took the...
Ordinary Landscape
The other day, we had a proponent of "creative landscape photography" presenting at the photographic society. His results were outstanding....
Hunting Kelpies
Situated right beside the M9, the Kelpies are a bit of a tourist trap, but it had to be done......
Glen Turret: Dark
Two of my twitter friends have developed particular styles - extreme dark low-key black+white rendition and negative inversion, respectively. It's...
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...