Wall-Ready Landscape Art

Like much of the country we’ve had our fair share of snow in Dundee over the last few days. The chance to get out and about and take some photographs of snowy Dundee has been limited both by the snow on driveways and roads and by the COVID-19 restrictions. Fortunately, one of my favourite photographic […]

Applecross is a wing-shaped peninsula on the west coast of Scotland lying between Loch Torridon to the north and Loch Carron to the south. The Inner Hebridean islands of Raasay and Skye lie off its western coast. With the Covid-19 lockdown easing in late summer 2020 I had the chance to stay there for a […]

I’ve been spending the Coronavirus Lockdown in Dundee, on the ‘sunny’ north coast of the Tay in Scotland. Although generally occupied with reading, writing, cataloguing, and putting photos on-line, I have been out and about taking some photos of Coronavirus Dundee. Fortunate to be living just opposite the Dundee end of the Tay Railway Bridge, […]

This brilliant theatre group have produced two award-winning musical plays about the women in the life of Scotland’s national poetic hero, Robert Burns. Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard These images were taken at a performance of their musical play Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard, written by Shonagh Murray, about a meeting […]

A further selection of my photographs gathered from trips to the Highlands of Scotland.

The River Forth between Edinburgh and the ‘Kingdom’ of Fife is unique in having three superb bridges of (when constructed) cutting-edge technology.

Applecross is a triangular peninsula between Loch Carron and Loch Torridon on the west coast of Scotland opposite the Isle of Skye. The name is probably an Anglicised corruption of Aporcrosan, referring to the River Crossan (Abhainn Crosain) that flows into Applecross Bay. The gaelic name for the peninsula is A’ Chomraich, meaning ‘The Sanctuary’. This name […]

This brilliant theatre group have produced two award-winning musical plays about the women in the life of Scotland’s national poetic hero, Robert Burns. Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard These images were taken at rehearsal for their musical play Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard, written by Shonagh Murray, about a meeting between […]

Sometimes the starkness of the landscape, or of the light, lends itself to a black and white image, or occasionally even sepia, cyanotype or duotone.

Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian were for a long time my local patch. Perhaps not the most photographed part of Scotland there is much of interest not far away from the city. The Borders The Scottish Borders are rich in history and contain rolling hills and attractive river valleys. The Trossachs The Trossachs is […]