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Sunrise at Stonehead on Winter Solstice
I fed the livestock at a run this morning as I wanted to photograph the sun rising behind the stones of the Stonehead Circle at dawn on the Winter Solstice. After finishing my chores with about 10...
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Looking towards Insch
Blue skies are a good excuse for a walk, at least in our book, so the four of us plus Harvey, our Border Terrier, went for a jaunt from our croft to the neolithic standing stones on the western flank...
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Crows at dawn
We’ve seen several ‘flash’ sunrises over the past few days, where a dark sky gives way to just a few minutes of pastel colours before everything turns grey. I missed several opportunities to capture...
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Dunnideer at night
An experimental shot of Dunnideer and its castle ruins at night with Bennachie on the right. The clouds behind the hill are illuminated by the lights of Inverurie and Aberdeen, giving them a weird...
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‘Pa, Pa, look at the sky!’
I was pottering about the house early this morning, just before pig feeding time, when the Big Lad ran down the stairs, shouting ‘Pa, Pa, look at the sky!’ We had an almost unbelievably spectacular...
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Dunnideer at dawn
I didn’t intend to fill the blog with images of the sky over Dunnideer and Insch, but a long run of stunning dawns, sunrises and sunsets in the past few months has seen me post a run of landscape...
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Snow erases the sunrise
As I was putting the boys on the school bus this morning, I noticed that not only did we had a beautiful sunrise but there was also a snowstorm blowing in from the west. I decided to see if I could...
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Striped dawn
We were late for rugby this morning. A major part of the reason was the sunrise. When I went out to feed the pigs, with plenty of time to spare, I discovered the sky was spectacularly striped by a...
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Day’s end
Not one of my better images, thanks to poor light, no tripod and a high ISO, but I wanted to show the day’s end from the top of our hill. I fed the pigs, locked the chickens up and was taking Harvey,...
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Who put those there?
A couple of weeks ago, I did the evening chores, strolled up to the top of the hill, enjoyed the sunset and muttered about how annoying it was to find my fractured wrist ruled out photography with the...
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