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Highland Hobo offer classic, vintage, VW camper vans for wedding hire across the North of Scotland and recently they welcomed 'Peanut', all the way from South Africa, to their fleet of Volkswagens. I love an old VW van so this was a great chance to rellay get close and pick out all the details on this wonderful … Continue reading VW Camper Van – Highland Hobo introduce ‘Peanut’
It's not everyday you can go into a public toilet with a camera and get away with it! In Nairn, behind the putting green and playpark, sits the old public toilet block - inside it has been converted on one side into an artisan ice-cream factory (hopefully more on that in the future) and on … Continue reading The Wee Studio – a Pottery in a Public Toilet!
One advantage of having moved to the north of Scotland is that I am much closer to the wilder areas of the country than I have ever been before. One of these areas that I had never explored before is Assynt, an area of outstanding beauty on the west coast north of Ullapool and a … Continue reading A Trip to Assynt – a Study in Curves
For the second of my occasional 'People and Process' series I visited Sharon Wooler and Andy Mallon of Cairngorm Leaf and Bean, who are based at The Dava School House near Grantown-on-Spey. I wanted to see firstly how they have taken on the espresso based cafés with every kind of coffee style but espresso in their … Continue reading Cairngorm Leaf and Bean – Coffee Roasting in the Highlands
Hazel Caldwell, and her husband Brian, of Aunt Marie's Kitchen, make Scottish tablet and cakes - and I love both of those!! I could not think of a better place to begin a new personal project documenting small craft based businesses in my new local area. I call this project 'People and Process' and it … Continue reading Aunt Marie’s Kitchen – Tablet and Cakes!
Back in October last year I took part in the Findhorn Bay Arts Festival Guerrilla Lighting event at Kinloss Abbey and as a part of that I entered a number of my images into the photography competition... well I have just found out that one of my photos has been selected as a winner! Three images have … Continue reading Guerrilla Lighting – Competition Update!
Scoring a record-equalling 97.5 points out of 100, it is only the third time that a single malt has ever won the prestigious award, and they were just the second Scottish distillery to do so. Why is all this relevant to a photographer? Well, you may recall my recent post about being on location in … Continue reading Old Pulteney Distillery – a Pure Maritime Malt Whisky
Just before Christmas I took on what proved to be one of the biggest jobs I have ever done- photographing the moving of towheads (they go on each end of an oil pipeline in the north sea) from Invergordon to Wick, and all points in-between. This is the story of that job. deugro are a … Continue reading Towheads on the Move
For the last of my reports from Orkney, I have just a few images to share from the amazing geology on the island and a couple of the stained glass windows in St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The rocks vary so much over the islands there was always something else to see. Can you spot the … Continue reading Orkney – Final Thoughts
On to the Broch of Gurness on Orkney, the third part of my brief visit to the islands. Brochs are an Iron Age building that can look a little like a modern power station cooling tower. Large, circular, tall and tapering they are all over the place on Orkney - although mostly as a ring … Continue reading Orkney – The Broch of Gurness
In the second of my posts about Orkney I am looking at just some of the amazing standing stones to be seen there. There are many of these on the islands and I only saw a few of them in the time I had. All the images below come from The Ring of Brodgar and … Continue reading Orkney – Standing Stones
I had always wanted to go to the Orkney Isles and in October I finally got the chance to spend a few days there. Orkney - A Personal Visit
In 1978 The Stranglers released their third studio album, "Black and White", featuring hits "Nice 'n Sleazy" and "Do You Wanna". Inspired by the title of the album one of my graphic design clients, Mark Watkins of Luck Design Ltd., created a series of photographic collages based on the titles of the twelve songs on … Continue reading Black and White – Collages by LuckDoesArt
As part of the Findhorn Bay Festival, 2016, I booked myself on the guerrilla lighting event at Kinloss Abbey. It was a chance to photograph the Abbey ruins at night with a whole variety of professional lighting set ups, including a pixel stick! Despite the looming rain and the increasing wind I took my time and … Continue reading Guerrilla Lighting at Kinloss Abbey
You may have noticed that I have been a bit quiet online recently. Well, there was a reason for that - I have been moving house and business to the north of Scotland. I am now based near Nairn and Forres on the Moray Firth - to the east of Inverness. It has taken quite … Continue reading I Have Moved! – Back to Scotland
Sophie Temple is a model with Model Students and I have worked with her on a number of projects. This time was for some new portfolio images for her and her make-up artist, Rochelle O'Brien. Rochelle has a lovely little studio on the side of her house bit it was a very narrow space. I managed … Continue reading Sophie Temple – a shoot in a small space
Nikki Deakin of ND Interior Design blends the contemporary and the timeless to help create unique spaces that are all about you. All I had to do was spend time capturing the rooms and design details that Nikki had brought to an old house. Throughout the property, the feeling was calm and serene. Simple colours and some … Continue reading ND Interior Design – step inside
Midland Financial Solutions Ltd. provide independent financial advice to individuals, businesses and to clients of professional firms such as solicitors and accountants. They are in the process of updating their website and images so I popped over to see what I could do for them 🙂
ARCA, the Asbestos Removal Contractor Association, offer a wide range of training courses to suit asbestos removal businesses and the individual worker needs, setting the benchmark for performance. So I was delighted to be asked to spend a few days with them, at their training facility, putting together a library of images to be used … Continue reading ARCA – Asbestos Removal Training Experts
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of photographing a master woodturner, Roger Waterhouse, at his workshop. Roger lives and works at the edge of his own woods and so has a constant supply of materials waiting to, literally, be turned into something wonderful. One technique he showed me was deliberately burning the wood and … Continue reading Roger Waterhouse – Master Wood Turner
