Photography…mostly.

Category: Landscape

  • Scottish seaside

    Scottish seaside

    A small collection of seaside photographs around Scotland. Some are simple phone camera grabshots. There is something refreshing about visits to the seaside. Is it the tides perpetually renewing the shoreline, weather, smell or sound? Whatever, it is perhaps my favourite location in which to relax.

  • Fields of Clackmannanshire summer on iPhone

    Fields of Clackmannanshire summer on iPhone

    These were shot on an iPhone 4 in 2010 and are a good demonstration of how the iPhone camera (and others) have transformed photography. Its only weakness was wild swings in colour temperature from shot to shot, for which I corrected in this collection. These were taken around the rolling fields in Clackmannanshire at the foot…

  • Just autumn

    Just autumn

  • Summer around Gartmorn dam

    Summer around Gartmorn dam

    I know its summer and this being a very wet one so dry and sunny pictures are scarce. So from 2011 enjoy these summer photographs around Gartmorn dam near Alloa, Clackmannanshire. The dam is an emergency backup water reserve should the many dams higher-up in the Ochils should run dry. Hah! Like thats ever going to…

  • Postcard of an oil refinery

    Postcard of an oil refinery

    As any regular reader will know, I am fascinated with great churches. For a similar reason large industrial scapes attract me. There is a celebration of achievement for large structures that rise from the earth. Whither blocks of stone erected in the name of religion, or a nest of stainless steel looping into paths in…

  • Ochils over Dollar

    Ochils over Dollar

    An autumn stroll above the Ochils Dollar in Clackmannanshire. Castle Campbell (aka Castle Gloom) looks over the Forth Valley. Midday sun in November brought the colours to life as a mist creeps along the river Forth in the valley below.