Journal

Tarskavaig sparkle

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 […]

Daisy opening

Daisy opening – A simple image from the garden this week. Schumann Waves Schumann waves were predicted by the great electrical genius, Nikola Tesla, in the late 19th century but not actually discovered until the 1950s.  They are described as the resonant frequency of the earth, in fact they are the result of the resonant […]

Echinacea

Echinacea with hover fly It seems to be time for what is becoming the annual Echinacea photo.  As a photographer, I should probably be looking out for some new aspect or way of showing it, but each year I see them with fresh eyes and perceive the warmth and energy coming from these flowers.  The […]

Kintail and the Sound of Sleat

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 […]

Cuillins from Tokavaig

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 […]

In the woods

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

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 […]

Foxgloves

Foxgloves in the rain. Its been a showery week… in fact today’s shower has lasted all day and its still pouring.  Yesterday’s shower lasted most of the day – I think I’m spotting a pattern here.  Every now and then a I spot a lighter patch of cloud in the distance which gives some hope […]

Sunset Lilies

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, […]

Life’s a Beach

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 […]

Loch Lomond at sunset

Loch Lomond island at sunset After a day of rain and dark clouds, as it often seems to happen, the evening turned clear with beautiful late sunlight (it is almost midsummer, after all, and here in Scotland it is now light well after 10pm).  I loved the reflections from the woods across the water. “If […]

Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond in high water The shores of loch Lomond, after seemingly weeks of wet weather the water level was high and flooding the shoreline trees.  The sun briefly appearing brought millions of sparkles through the silhouetted trees, and an intriguing silvery shadow of the trees on the water. “Emotions reflect intentions.  Therefore, awareness of […]