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…
Cover Image – What Mountain Bike Magazine
I arrived back in the UK after a short trip to ISPO last week, to find the latest issue of What Mountain Bike magazine on the shelves at Gatwick Airport. The cover image jumped out at me. It’s one of mine from a photography shoot I did for the magazine back before Christmas at the…
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…
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…
Northern Lights – Inverness March 2016
I remember when I first witnessed the Northern Lights, I was about ten years old and I was terrified. I don’t know why, but I remember standing on the cliff top, at home in North Yorkshire, looking out past the lights of Middlesbrough and watching these strange shapes move around the sky. They filled me…
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…
