A Fort called George
Runners Race at Tain Highland Gathering
"We were on the way to Elgol to do the boat trip to Loch Coruisk but had to stop for a couple of minutes while a JCB was digging by the side of the single track road. This guy was was installing a new phone cable so I had to step out of the car and grab the shot while I could as it was such a fantastic backdrop to the scene."
[This photo won an honorary mention in the Highland Exposure competition]
Kilchattan Bay
neolithic standing stones, very near the stones of stenness. orkney.
In an old neighbourhood you are faced by the past in every corner.
Hillhead. Glasgow. Scotland.
View from the dam at the Eastern end of Loch Lyon, looking westward towards Beinn Mhanach
I couldn’t stand in one place for very long because of the midges There was clouds of the things.
"I have tried to represent the distance of time in one photograph. The past represented by the ancient peat, the present by the tractor, and the future of energy creation by the wind turbines. The question mark is a subtle way of asking if it is right for Lewis's landscape to be given over to a wind farm. Man comes and man goes and he has a dramatic effect on the land. Natural processes only happen slowly."
This photo received and honorable mention in the Highlands exposure Photo exhibition.
As the title suggests...
(this photo received an honourable mention in the Highland Exposure Photo competition}
Out across Loch Lomond.
"Live prawns harvested from creels at Gairloch, north west Scotland. They are flown down to London to be sold in expensive restuarants, including one of Gordon Ramsay's. They are usually marketed as langoustines to make more money."
Taken at Armadale Stadium, home of the Edinburgh Monarchs Premier League speedway team.
"Maybe a tad overdone - it's easy to get carried away!
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland"
All things considered
Rolling a cigarette.
The only break in the rain!
And of course the quirky....
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