Today my work took me to the beautiful island of Tiree. I flew Hebridean Air from Oban Airport, with local legend Julie Angel as pilot. In short, it was a great experience, and although my seat only had a window with the engine directly opposite, it was still worth pointing my new Sony carry-around at...
This was Inveraray today as I finished a visit there for business. It has been cold and the rain has been a fairly constant feature recently, but days like this are what makes living on the west coast of Scotland so worthwhile. I am so much a portraitist by inclination and by habit now, but...
I’m never sure to what degree I want to say anything too personal on my photo-blog. The truth is that this hasn’t been a great year; my dad died this year and my poor mum is in care now as my dad was her full time carer, (she has dementia sadly). A dear friend and...
Last weekend I finally visited the Falkirk Wheel. This amazing and unique structure uses clever engineering and counterbalancing to lift barges between the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals. It is so well constructed it achieves this amazing feat using the kind of energy that you or I use to boil a kettle. Since each...
These are my friends Dick Edie and Jim Hulme. Two Lightroom exposures combined to cope with the huge dusk-dynamic range. (Trusty sigma 28mm) This is the mouth of Loch Sween where my friend and colleague Dick Edie lives. Dick and I share a love of photography and we both use Flickr. Truth be told, I’m...
Another hard day at the office! Beautiful shots but don’t think you would get me on that plane!
I think the little Sony is great.