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Catching up with the Birds

I love photographing birds and then working through the images. Over the years, I’ve become better at birds in flight, but I’ve still a long way to go. My keeper rate has improved though, from around...

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Little worlds

I’ve tried a few times to use the Polar Coordinates filter in PhotoShop, but didn’t enjoy the results much. Until now! Creating miniature planets is really quite fun. I can even give people their own...

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Mr and Mrs Guts

A few years back, a herring gull took up residency on our roof, behind the chimney. Actually, it’s next doors chimney, but he seemed to spend most of his time on our roof and mooching around in our...

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Dunbeath

After photographing the Tiantulloch and Minera brochs, Tina and I spent a few hours exploring Dunbeath. What a surprising little place. Well worth taking the time to turn off the A9, park up down by...

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More birds

The transfer of stock from Alamy to our own website continues to make good progress. Having this opportunity to go through every single photo in our stock collection and check them over is proving to...

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Photographing birds tutorial

Yesterday’s blog has been developed into a tutorial on photographing birds. See the tutorial here

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River Brora Estuary

This is a 9300 x 3100 82Mb HDR pano of the River Brora estuary. Tons of work in these HDR panos, but I love ‘em. I’ve figured out I need a better tripod head though, so that’s next on the shopping...

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Dunbeath broch

It’s surprising to find brochs with so much of the original stonework still standing. It’s also astonishing to understand that if these brochs had not been plundered of their stone, a large number of...

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The extinction of the Scottish Wildcat

It is estimated that less than 200 wildcats remain in Scotland and the species is at very real risk of becoming extinct. But why should this be? Animal activists claim it is gamekeepers, because they...

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Moorhen

Moorhens are sometimes called marsh hens, and can be found in lowland rivers, ponds and marshy ground. During breeding they are territorial, but otherwise will flock to favourite feeding grounds. It...

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The Instagram Act, photo orphans, and copyright theft

This post, as well as this blog, has moved to our forums: Highlands of Scotland Photography forums

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Catching up with the Birds

I love photographing birds and then working through the images. Over the years, I’ve become better at birds in flight, but I’ve still a long way to go. My keeper rate has improved though, from around...

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We’ve moved :)

I’ve gathered all our social networking resources into one place and will be concentrating our efforts from there from now on. Please come on over to the forums and say hello. It’s free to register,...

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The New Blog

As I’ve just launched my career as a semi-pro photographer, it means big changes. The forums have gone, as well as quite a few other things. Through time I will be marketing my photography as George...

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