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 […]
The play of light, Silver Birch, Strathspey The meadow is a wild grassland, an open space amongst the surrounding birch woods. There are old tumbled ruins suggesting that it was once farmed, or maybe a sheiling where animals were taken to graze during the summer. Earlier in the summer it was full of wild flowers, […]
Evening reflections at the Lily Loch Inspirational Image has been a bit quiet recently – three weeks seem to have gone by in the space of one! A summer evening at one of my favourite places, Lochan Mor in Rothiemurchus, otherwise known as the Lily Loch. Regular readers may notice that the loch and its […]
Cranesbill, wildflower meadow, River Spey A midummer’s day stroll through the most beautiful wildflower meadow by the banks of the River Spey. Unfortunately the day was overcast, with just occasional brief bursts of sunshine – enough time to focus, not enough time to complete a photo – but the flowers were beautiful. I love the […]
Spring Day, Loch Vaa A perfect April day – after a frosty start it turned bright and sparkly, the forest around the loch thick with fresh resinous pine scent in the warm sunshine. Fish were jumping, ducks and geese busy making a clamour – everything seemed to be stretching out to enjoy the sun and […]
Rhododendron Bee My Rhododendron has had its best display in years, just laden with delicate pink blossom this last week, possibly due to the mild winter we’ve experienced. The bees have been on a constant mission into the flowers all week, especially on these hot (for Scotland, that is) spring days we’ve had over Easter. […]
Light in the Birch I walked to the Craigellachie lochan arriving just before sunset – the sun sets sharply behind the steep crags which circle the loch. The birch are about to come into leaf (very early this season after the warmer winter) and have a beautiful purple colour. I’m amazed at the effect of […]
Evening Colours, Monadliath mountains There was a beautiful evening atmosphere with light haze turning the sky completely peachy, as the sun set over the Monadliath Mountains. I’m just loving the colour. “The quality of emotional knowing has a finer integration with our spirit than anything that comes from barren intellectual processes. This point of view […]
Sunset, Loch Morlich, Cairngorms National Park We’ve had some fabulous early spring days, misty-hazy days of surprising warmth (when you’re in the shelter away from the Northerly wind). Come sun-down and the temperature drops instantly about 10 degrees. I timed this evening trip to Loch Morlich perfectly, with amazing fiery colours developing after sunset. Here’s […]
Frog, Craigellachie Lochan, Aviemore There is a day every year which marks Spring like no other. Suddenly, overnight, the lochan is heaving (literally) with frogs. Frogs are everywhere, in the pond, going to the pond from the surrounding marsh and bog, or returning exhausted from the pond, sprawled across the footpath around the loch. I […]
