Snowy Birch Branches. The last few days have turned wintry on us, with a few inches of soft fluffy snow. The sun came out for a few minutes, shining through these birch branches. Its been one of those perplexing weeks, just when you think you are beginning to understand and get to grips with something… […]
Birch in mist – abstract. “Painting” by setting a long exposure time and slowly moving the camera. As I write this, sleet hurtles past my window and its been nearly dark all day long … welcome to November! However, despite the gales there is still good colour in the woods to be appreciated. “So the […]
Autumn or winter? Late autumn birch reflections with early snowfall, Craigellachie National Nature reserve, Aviemore. We had more rain and wind for most of the week, and then thursday dawned with blue skies, frost, and a surprise early snowfall. Back at one of my favourite photography spots, loving the multiple layers with the orange reflecting […]
Birch Reflections, Aviemore. After another changeable week, yesterday brought sunshine and white fluffy clouds, bringing out the vivid autumn colours. This is at one of my favourite places locally, the loch reflecting the crag in which it nestles. “If you want to cut directly through, don’t entertain doubts about Buddhas, or doubts about life and […]
Birch Leaf Our Birch trees have started to turn colour this last week or so. Here’s one catching the sun along the riverbank, starting to turn. “Look deep, deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything.” – Albert Einstein “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to […]
Snow drops on birch. This was a “pick n mix” week. Your choice of rain, snow, sleet in any combination at any time, served with a side order of gales. This drop of melting snow was refracting the tree behind, in a brief moment of relative light. “Take January’s advice – stack wood! Weather inevitably […]
Winter Birch. The upper Findhorn valley, near Tomatin, on a day of cold winds and a flurry of snow on the tops. This week has seen a constant cycle of rain and a few snow flurries, followed by frost, leaving everywhere covered in a layer of ice! I liked how the tree and grasses caught […]
Lichen on branch. Most of this week has been drab, dark and very wet! However, the sunshine when it happens is very intense, and illuminated the fronds of this lichen. I love the rich purple colour of the bare birch trees behind. I stood in the (ankle deep squelch) bog to take this – there’s […]
Birch mist inversion, Craigellachie, Strathspey. Indian summer came this week, after last week’s snow. Three days of fantastic clear blue sky & daytime heat – what we’ve been waiting for since April! I climbed up Craigellachie, our local hill, to get above the morning mist which filled the valley like a glacier. This photo was […]
September Reflections, 4 Lochans, Glenfeshie. The birches have really started to turn colour this week, with snow low down the hills as well for a day or two – brrrrr! “From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him […]
Birch trees in leaf, Strathspey, Scotland. 2 weeks of stunning sunshine, with cold starts, absolutely clear skies and amazing clarity of light have seen the birch woods coming into full leaf in Strathspey. Colours go from bronze to a jewelled lime-green with the young leaves shimering. The name “Birch” comes from the Old German word […]
Wood Anenome, Strathspey, Scotland. Wood Anenome photographed this week in evening light – carpeting the floor of the birch wood. These are the famed “wooden enemies” that lurk in the woods in children’s imagination. “The Temple bell stops, but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” – Basho, Japanese poet, 1644-1694.
