If you are driving through the Highlands of Scotland during the months of March and April, there’s a good chance you will see columns of smoke rising up on the horizon, behind at least one hill. In most cases, this is likely down to the Scottish Muirburn season which sees great swathes of heathland burnt…
Aurora Frustrations
The weather was perfect in so many ways yesterday, I was working in Grantown-on-Spey on a commercial photography shoot. The drive there and back was wall to wall blue skies, temperatures sitting around 19˚C – yes that’s 19˚C in March in the Highlands of Scotland. In the evening I drove to Aviemore, for a walk…
The Bow Fiddle Rock
The Scottish winter is refusing to materialise. This weekend I should have been in the Southern Highlands photographing backcountry skiing, but the location is yet to get a covering of snow. Which meant I had a spare couple of days, which is actually much appreciated after the chaotic last few weeks. So, missing the sea…
MBUK: Out Front – Kinlochleven Enduro
Mountain Bike UK Magazine has just dropped and it’s got a nice double page spread from yours truly. Back in November 2016 I was commissioned for some mountain bike photography at the Kinlochleven Enduro, which I’ve written about here. I already had it pegged as one of the best races, I photographed during the whole of…
Insta of the Month – November 2016
Each month, I feature my best Instagram shot, as chosen by the likes and comments of my followers. This month’s image was taken on the way home from a commercial photography shoot near Aviemore and it is one I’ve been planning to take, for a wee while. As I began packing my gear up on the shoot, it…
Clear Fell – Early Days
Living in the Highlands, you are never far from a forest, in fact, you are never far from a forest anywhere in Scotland, as woodland covers almost 18% of the total area of Scotland. My house looks out over forestry from all sides, and a couple of weeks ago I noticed activity just down the…
In Print: Mountain Bike UK Magazine
MBUK Big Ride Guide: Linn of Dee, Cairngorms Back in November, as snow was falling in the Northern Cairngorms, I teamed up with Max Darkins of MBUK to drive over the snow covered roads from Aviemore to the Linn of Dee. Here we joined up with two local riders Malcolm and Rebecca from OrangeFox Bikes for…
Lyness Naval Cemetery
Last week on a cycling tour of Orkney, we took some time out to visit the Lyness Naval Cemetery on the island of Hoy. Managed by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the cemetery was started in 1915, at this time Scapa Flow was being used as the northern base of the Grand Fleet during the…
MBUK Big Ride Guide – Rothiemurchus
A couple of months ago, I joined Max Darkins from Mountain Bike UK magazine along with Sally and Bruce from Mikes Bikes in Aviemore for a ride through Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms of Scotland. It was that time of year when the leaves were turning and mud could be found in epic proportions, but the…
Hogmanay Aurora Borealis
What better way to welcome in the New Year, than to watch as the Aurora Borealis dance in the sky above you. Enjoying a midnight stroll, with a hip flaske of single malt, we watched as the finest light show in the World kicked off above our very heads. Happy New Year, wherever you are!
