The district of Harray, Orkney I love the feeling of space and the light in this image of Harray. The clouds are full of life, too! One of the things I love about Orkney is the constantly changing play of light on the land and numerous lochs and sea. “One can appreciate & celebrate each […]
Sun-filled Poppy These poppies have such a lovely energising bright colour, especially with the incredible sun we’ve had over the last few days. During the day they were too bright to photograph – the camera simply cannot handle the contrast and colour saturation, but I took this photo in the last moments before sunset in […]
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, in mist. It was a rather misty, chilly day on this visit to the amazing Ring of Brodgar, but the energies around the stones were beautiful. The ring is classed as a henge and is, for me, at the heart of Orkney, and one of the wonders of the British Isles. […]
Light filters through the western window, St Magnus cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney I’m just back from a few days on the Orkney Islands, part of a wonderful trip with master dowser Michele Fitzgerald. I’ve learnt a lot in just a few days, and if you are serious about consciousness, health, and personal transformation, I can thoroughly […]
Skaill bay, Orkney, at sunset. An image from my last trip to Orkney a couple of years ago. This was an experimental image with an exposure time of 2 seconds to slightly blur the wave motion. I’ll leave you to imagine the biting cold wind – but I love the colours. I liked this quote […]
Brooding clouds and reflections, Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus. Black and white, quadtoned. Its been a good week with some lovely spring moments. This was taken on a bike ride around Loch an Eilein one late afternoon. I was hoping that the sun would burst through the dark clouds for some contrast, but it didn’t happen […]
A spring snowstorm sweeps across the forest, Monadliath mountains I love the grainy texture in this from the snow clouds, as they swept in across the forest, and the misty effect disappearing into the distance. It doesn’t look very springlike, I admit, but that is what this week has been all about – lovely warm […]
Snowy pines at sunset Its been a lovely warm weekend, definitely feeling on the edge of spring with crocuses and snowdrops out in the garden. However, here’s another one from last weekend’s walk in the forest. This is taken at sunset, as the suns rays were directly horizontal onto the tree trunks, coming from the […]
Sun, clouds and fresh snow on the Monadliath Today: a celebration of the elements. We had an inch and a half of fresh fluffy snow when I awoke this morning, the first we have had here in the Highlands since December. It has been an unusally snow-free winter for us, at least judging by the […]
Pine trees looming through thick mist and snow, Strathspey I took this a couple of years ago during a really hard winter spell. It was hard work breaking trail on skis through deep fresh snow, up the trail to the forest edge. I loved how the shapes of these big pines started to appear through […]
Soft snow on birch branches, Craigellachie lochan, Aviemore I liked the tracery of these branches with their reflections, as the loch surface rapidly snowed over. Imbolc, or St Brigid’s Day, will be on Wednesday 1st or Thursday 2nd Feb (different traditions give different dates). Traditionally it marks the beginning of spring, falling approximately halfway between […]
Dipper flying above the River Spey, with snowy reflections I was lucky to have the camera out and ready when this dipper flew past! Only solid ice will prevent them from dipping under in search of food. Its been a stormy few days with rain, snow, wind, and rain again – in fairly equal quantities. […]
