Autumn Beech wood, Rothiemurchus Autumn has been late this year, and its stayed warmer longer than usual. In this last week the Highland woods have been glowing against deep blue skies with beautiful days of sunshine. Pheasants squawked and scattered as I wandered, and I could see Roe deer down in the marshy area by […]
Changing light, Glengariff, Co. Cork, Ireland I’ve fallen in love with this south-west corner of Ireland, her ever-changing light, and the magical landscape. For anybody with a heart open to feeling, it truly is magical, an energy that can be sensed as you drive the winding coast, or better yet as you slowly walk in […]
Sunset Pines, Loch Garten, Strathspey Most of the day had been grey, however as evening came on the clouds cleared allowing the setting sun to shine through. Loch Garten has very ‘fluid’ edges, with boggy marshes and pine-islands, and one of these made an atmospheric sunset-spot. The sense of space and quiet was immense, with […]
Golden September Morning, Loch an Eilein We often have the best ‘summer’ weather late on, in September. Its the classic time of early morning mist, golden sunny warmth, and chill evenings. Here in Scotland we’ve enjoyed a few such days this week. This is early morning at one of my favourite places. The thick mist […]
Autumn colours and early snow, Cairngorms, from Torr Alvie An image from this week last year, on a day of sunshine and frost with the larch glowing bright orange across Rothiemurchus, and early winter snow on the Cairngorms behind. The photo is taken from the mysterious wee hill of Torr Alvie, which is covered in […]
Sunset colours over the Monadhliath A final image from last week’s set, taken from Craigellachie after sunset. The thick haze which had hung about all afternoon blurred out all detail, leaving just the deeply colourful main ridges. I find the deep blue-purple shades to be very satisfying. Looking up, it was a surprise to see […]
‘Distant Misty Ridges’, Monadhliath Mountains The day had been mostly cloudy with a damp start, but around mid-afternoon it started to clear. Although I could see blue sky above, everywhere was a thick, warm, haze. After an hour’s (hard) climb I was on the summit of Craigellachie, taking in the atmosphere. I have rarely experienced […]
Evening light, Loch Mallachie The sun was close to setting, the low light angle giving these pines a stunning graphical effect, especially against the dark (guinness) peaty water of the loch. Loch Mallachie is really just a slightly deeper bit of the surrounding bog and marsh, with the pine forest growing where it can on […]
Morning mist rising, Loch an Eilein This is September at her best. An early start, awaking to thick mist with the chance of sun breaking through, and the world covered in dewy spiderwebs – trees, bracken, grasses, fenceposts – everywhere. I took a gulp of breakfast and then pedalled fast to the loch, to be […]
Dragonfly basking on rock I think that this is a ‘Black Darter’, which lives up to its name by hardly ever being still enough to photograph, darting constantly from reed to reed and zooming around the edges of the lochan in the late summer sunshine. When we get a day like this, I love to […]
Late Autumn colour and first Winter snow, Glenfeshie Hills, Cairngorms A late November day in Strathspey, the near-sunset casting a warm glow across the landscape in contrast to the crisp air. There is something I really like in the shape and flow of the forested middle-distance hills against the steep-sided hillside behind. It is always […]
Looking south over Badenoch, from Torr Alvie, near Aviemore Torr Alvie is a wonderfully mysterious hill, rising up in the middle of the valley, covered in ancient natural forest (an open mix of birch, oak, beech, pine and juniper). The ‘easy side’ is a long southwards slope which catches the sun, with a great view […]
