Puffins, I just love them. They are great birds to photograph or to just sit back and watch – you can get really close too! To give them their proper title, they are Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula artica) and they can be found in various places around the Scottish coast during their breeding season. On a [...]

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It is with a certain amount of sadness, OK, I’m gutted, that I have to report that a tree on Rannoch Moor that has appeared in many of my pictures over the years has succumbed to the strong winds blasting across Scotland this week. As reported and photographed by DuncanDisorderly on the talkphotography.co.uk forums this [...]

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Balnakeil Bay – another favourite spot on Sutherland’s coast. In fleeting sunshine – this shot so nearly didn’t happen! For more stock images and prints of beaches around Durness go to my Durness image gallery. Tweet

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Oldshoremore beach. Who can resist a visit when in Sutherland, I certainly can’t! For more stock images and prints of Oldshoremore and other beaches in the area, go to my Oldshoremore – Polin – Sheigra image gallery Tweet

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On our recent trip to Assynt in Sutherland, this was the first time I had seen Clashnessie Waterfall in spate. For more stock images and prints of this wonderful area go to my Assynt image gallery. Tweet

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It was on this day . . . May 1st – It was on this day in 1707 that the Act of Union between Scotland and England came into force. Whatever you may think of the Act of Union now, it was not well thought of by many Scots. Burn’s poem “A Parcel of Rogues [...]

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I get at least two or three emails most weeks asking for a free image . These requests come from all sorts of people, none of whom I actually know, but all seem to think I am willing to spend my time sending them images and working for free. Not to mention the fact that [...]

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It was on this day . . . April 22nd – It was on this day in 1908 that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Scottish politician and Liberal Prime Minister from 1905-08, died. This statue is located in the City of Stirling, Scotland, where Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was an MP. For more info on this Scottish [...]

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