A couple of months ago I travelled south in Stella to a place I hadn’t visited since living in Northumberland about 35 years ago. In those days it was simply Kielder Forest, …
November mists
John Keats’s “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” has given way to Thomas Hood’s November: “No sun – no moon! No morn – no noon – No dawn – no …
Drizzly Dunkeld
This week’s weather has been uninviting fog and rain, but nevertheless I have been out with the camera trying to catch the mood of places such as the Hermitage, a …
Autumn woods
It may be a dull week weatherise, but under the tree canopy the autumn colours are glowing. I shot these photographs rather late in the afternoon, as the light was …
Schiehallion cloud inversion
We saw a dramatic cloud inversion on the Aberfeldy to Acharn walk I led for the Drovers’ Tryst walking festival. Our high level route took us above the mist filling Strath Tay and …
Fog bow
We experienced a relatively unusual meteorological phenomenon on the Aberfeldy to Acharn walk I led on Saturday for the Drovers’ Tryst walking festival – a fog bow. This glowed as we climbed …
Crepuscular rays through autumn birch
On Saturday we started the Aberfeldy to Acharn walk I was leading for the Drovers’ Tryst walking festival in thick fog at the Birks of Aberfeldy car park. The mist …