Orange Birch in the rain, Craigellachie National Nature Reserve This week Scotland decided to cut out the middle man, skip autumn and go straight to winter, with snow on the hills (and a few showers of the white stuff down here), and gales and rain a-plenty. The rain and low lighting really bring out the […]
Golden Birch, Craigellachie woods, Aviemore When the sunshine comes through the autumn birch, Craigellachie birchwood turns to gold. Its just a beautiful place and a lovely wee walk. As somebody who is very energetically sensitive, I have come to realise (through the school of hard learning) that I constantly pick up not only on the […]
Strathspey and Loch Insh from Ord Ban I was very glad this afternoon when the rain cleared and the sun started coming through the mist. I took a series of images from Ord Ban, its only a wee hill but it has a great outlook over the Strath. Unfortunately by the time I had climbed […]
Early autumn reflections, River Spey, Aviemore One from earlier this evening – its been a week of wind and rain, and as it reached towards the end of another dull day, I determined to get out and enjoy some of it, hoping for the evening sun to break through. It did for just a few […]
Evening showers and ‘electric’ clouds, Loch Vaa, Strathspey An evening walk out at Loch Vaa, starting in perfect September late sunshine, turning into light rain showers and atmospheric mistiness around the tree-islands on the loch, with the clouds seemingly lit from within by the sunset somewhere above them. This was the perfect antidote to a […]
Tarskavaig bay, Skye One from the fiddle trip to Skye last month, looking out to the Atlantic with the island of Canna on the horizon. Loving the sunshine and sparkle! This week: its all about light… “We know today that man is essentially a being of light. And the modern science of photobiology is presently […]
The mountains of Kintail across the Sound of Sleat, from Skye In beautiful sunshine and hardly any wind, with a flat calm sea showing the tide patterns. The mountains and the sea were quite a ‘study in blue’. I’ve had a full-on busy weekend, so its good to look at this image, and feel […]
Cuillin Mountains from Tokavaig, Isle of Skye I had an amazing week, on a fiddle camp with master fiddler Alasdair Fraser, hosted at the gaelic college on Skye (Alasdair Fraser week at Sabhal Mor Ostaig). Not only was the tuition amazing, but to have 9 days of such continuous sunshine on Skye is almost unheard […]
Rothiemurchus woods, evening light Just before sunset in the Rothiemurchus pine woods, in the background is a small loch filling a deep hollow, full of reeds. I loved the intense colours with the low sun. This week’s quote basically says that caring for our planet is caring for ourselves – a message which is at […]
Loch Pityoulish, Strathspey In that phrase seemingly beloved of forecasters – ‘A showery airstream will cover the country’… it certainly has been, with frequent downpours and steamy interludes. Most of the showers seemed to last all afternoon, this week. This afternoon I went out anyway, got wet, dried off, then got wet again. It was […]
Sunset reflections, the ‘lily loch’. After a heavy downpour, the sun came out for a half hour fling before sunset. I just had time to get to this local loch to catch the reflections of the sunset clouds through the lilies. The water was completely still until a (Mrs Mallard) duck took off in alarm, […]
Sunshine and clouds, Findhorn Beach, the Moray coast It poured all day on Midsummer’s day and its been a chilly week, but yesterday was summertime at Findhorn beach. Well, it was warm enough not to need a jacket all the time… I loved the expanse of sea and sky with the cloudscape. “A friend is […]
