One castle that didn’t make my top ten favourite Scottish Castles is Fast Castle, in the Scottish Borders near St Abbs. Sadly, it’s just a ruin, no more than a few large pieces of masonry remain, but what a position it has overlooking the North Sea, perched rather precariously on a rocky promontory. The castle [...]

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March 11th, 2011. Last night a fire broke out in the Castle’s Clock Tower. Little detail is known as yet but the fire was contained within the Tower. More details at BBC Scotland Click on the image to licence for publication or to buy a print.

Tags: Blair Athol, Blair Castle, fire, Scotland

Seeing the first Snowdrop of the year always brings to mind the phrase “Hope Springs Eternal”. The first sign of Spring, the rising of the sap, good times to come! These pictures were taken at Gargunnock House Garden, Gargunnock, near Stirling. Click on the images to either buy a print or licence for publication.

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Seen by 1000′s of motorists every day on the A80 at Cumbernauld, Arria is surely set to become one of Andy Scott’s best known works of art. I love it! Arria is 32ft tall and the design is based on the original meaning of Cumbernauld, the Gaelic “cumer nan allt”, which means the coming together [...]

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Stock images and prints of the BBC Scotland’s Headquaters on Pacific Quay, Glasgow. March 6th – It was on this day in 1923 that Scotland’s first radio broadcast took place from Rex House in Bath Street, Glasgow. Today, BBC Scotland broadcasts from Pacific Quay.

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Stock images and prints of Flora MacDonald. March 5th -It was on this day in 1790, that Flora MacDonald, died. She helped the fleeing Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland after the Battle of Culloden.

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Stock images and prints of Culzean Castle. Robert Adam redesigned Culzean Castle in South Ayrshire, which now belongs to the National Trust for Scotland.

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Stock image of illuminated steps. I was trying to find a composition for a cityscape image in Stirling when I spotted these illuminated steps.

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