A quick walk up the Ochils that overlook Stirling. Well worth the time spent to get there and rewards the mild effort with great views from the Forth bridges (soon to be a trio) in the east to Ben Lomond in the west. The Wallace Monument and Stirling Castle were built upon “crag and tails” for strategic reasons. (more…)
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Stone built Stirling
Photographs of Stirling and the stone construction shot around the west side towards the Church of Holy Rude and Stirling Castle.
Clackmannan in the Cold
This was a typically unpredictable morning. With a high pressure system in charge giving cold, frost and fog which had descended over Clackmannan meaning views were very peek-a-boo minute to minute. These photographs were taken from Kings Seat Hill upon which the parish of Clackmannan nestles.
It offers great views into Fife in the East, Ochils and Perthshire in the north, Stirling east and Falkirk to the south. The Bruce family settled and built one of the County of Clackmannanshire’s five towers to project their power.
Sunrise over the cold rooftops of Clackmannan Clackmannan Tower below the Moon The Wallace Monument in Stirling and snow-capped Campsies in the distance with Alloa in the mist Clackmannanshire and Kincardine bridges in cold weather with the heat of Grangemouth bubbling-up clouds Robert the Bruce’s Clackmannan Tower in the mist Snow-capped Ochils Sunset on Stirling
This is an old sequence of images I took in 2010 of the statue of Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service (SAS). It is located on the outskirts of Dunblane and Doune.
Colonel Sir David Stirling Trossachs turning
Some autumn detail from around the Trossachs.
Pool of Menteith
Watery eyes
Fall
Autumn torrent
Pinned to the rock
Wet fungi
Views of Stirling
Some views of Stirling and the wider Forth Valley taken on 8th January 2014 from a walk over the Ochil hills.
Stirling’s landmarks atop old volcanic crag and tails River Forth snaking between bonded warehouses Tillicoultry nestling below the Ochils. Forth Valley panorama, Dollar to Falkirk to Stirling. Thinking Deacon Blue… Beauly-Denny power line, today. Old Logie Kirk church.
