I had an email from a TV company making a series for the National Geographic Channel. They want to use some of my photos of stone-age houses for one of their shows about Everyday Things.
I’m trying to focus more on the words National Geographic and paying less attention to the fact that it’s for [...]

Clouds and rocks from my week at Black Isle.

In my book of birds it says that sparrowhawks rarely attack anything as big as a starling. Maybe noone bothered to tell that to this sparrowhawk.
Edit: Thanks, , for pointing out that it is a Peregrine and not a Sparrowhawk!

I spent the morning sorting through the rest of my Black Isle photos – categorising them by subject or mood or whatever. 1,454 pictures. I need to learn to put the camera down more often! By far the biggest category is called Garbage. These are the categories that only had one [...]

I didn’t know herring gull chicks were so cute. But then baby rats are probably cute, also.

Black Isle is one of the best places to see dolphins in Britain – there’s a significant population in the Moray Firth. I’d never seen wild dolphins before, so I was excited to see a group of 3 swimming around and leaping out of the water.
On the other hand, it’s a shame that my [...]

A few pictures of flowers from last week. All these were in the grounds of Cawdor Castle near Inverness.

I’m just back from a wee spell away to Black Isle, just north of Inverness. A place notable for being neither black nor an island.
Near where I was staying was a very pretty wooded glen with a couple of waterfalls and pools, lots of trees and bluebells, known as Fairy Glen. At one [...]