Aspen

Aspen, Strathspey. Yes – its leaves again – it must be the season! Aspen leaves tremble in less than  the slightest breeze – making them a hard job to  photograph!  These ones stilled their dance for just a moment, early one morning this week. “Like an emblem of flexibility, Aspen can accept impulses from all […]

Riverbank Sycamore

Riverbank Sycamore, River Spey. We had some beautiful light this week, illuminating these turning leaves down by the riverside one morning.  The wind was shaking the leaves all over. In reply to several correspondents from last week – no, I wasn’t in Colorado, it was from a trip 2 years ago! “Connecting with the qualities […]

Colorado Aspen

Aspen, Sangre de Cristo mountains, Southern Colorado. The light from the Aspen was incredibly intense – like walking through shimmering gold – it certainly helped to offset the altitude as I climbed higher. This photo was taken in a high valley at about 10,000 feet, surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo peaks at 14,000 feet. […]

Birch mist

Birch mist inversion, Craigellachie, Strathspey. Indian summer came this week, after last week’s snow.  Three days of fantastic clear blue sky &  daytime heat – what we’ve been waiting for since April! I climbed up Craigellachie, our local hill, to get above the morning mist which filled the valley like a glacier. This photo was […]