July has been and gone. Arguably my least productive month photographically due to many factors not least the early starts and school holidays. I seem to get like this this every year around this time, just very demotivated. I often say it’s because of one thing and the other but if I’m honest those are just excuses, there is plenty to be photographed at this time of year I just think it’s a little break I need to take and this year I decided to just enjoy it and not get up t

March started with a talk at Ayr Photographic Society, one of the oldest camera clubs in Scotland and within its stunning location at the Loudoun Hall, Ayr which in itself is full of history and character. It seemed to go down very well with the very welcoming membership and organisers. Rarely do I pass up an opportunity to shoot near the location of a talk and this was no exception with an early evening stop at a wet Troon beach. Unlike other locations I’ve visited through d

Well it’s been nearly a year and a half since I last posted My Ordinary Week and have been wanting to start it up again for a while. This time I plan to post it monthly though, which I hope will mean there will be slightly more photographic content worthy of inclusion. It will still be very much Ordinary as before so please keep your expectations low if you plan to follow along. So I’m starting off with the month of February which was very much a mixed bag with huge extremes

Slightly later than normal but here is My Ordinary Week 20. It continues from a short break to Tuscany with my wife Louise. After enjoying our first evening we got up early to have a look around before breakfast. The reason to return in Autumn was to try and see the place with more colour and with a little more weather than the when we were last here in the height of a very dry clear summer. My first observation was that Autumn hadn’t fully arrived yet and on this morning the

With a week of late/night shifts and with darkness falling earlier my opportunities for photography were going to be very limited. So on my first shift I new I had about 20-30mins at a yard on the Ayrshire coast that I like to explore, especially in darkness or twilight. So as usual I went with the wee Sony in the bag ready to put my break to good use. It was only when I got the camera out my bag that I was shocked to see the LCD screen had cracked and only capable of display

As mentioned in My Ordinary Week #17 I spent the end of last week at my in laws in Aberfoyle and so begin this week with the morning walk back in the Loch Ard Forest. I went out in darkness of dawn as the rain continued to lash down with low cloud hugging the surrounding hills, much the same as the previous evenings walk. Within 5 minutes I was under the canopy of the forest and walking along the wonderful trails that snake through the wet woodlands. Autumn still has some wor

Welcome back to the blog where it’s back to living up to the name where it was very much an ordinary week. Ironically I was off work all week but it was to look after my girls more than anything as my wife had to go away for a few days. It was a good week all the same and I managed to get the girls out on Saturday when the weather was at it’s best. We headed up to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine where I took them out on the Sir Walter Scott steamship. They loved it and I manag

After 13 weeks it’s eventually happened, a designated morning outing. Woohoo! Summer has been a drag, not helped by the particularly poor Scottish summer weather, but now as we emerge out the other side into pre Autumn the changeable weather is welcomed with open arms, with more reasonable sunrise times and more colour variations in the landscape. With an unexpected opening where my only time constraint was to be back in time to get the kids from school meant I frantically c

Well if you’re returning after reading last weeks blog then a huge thank you and if it’s your first visit, welcome and take this weeks with a pinch of salt as it’s not been the most exciting week for photography (again). But as I’ve said before it’s all about seeing this blog develop which I hope is in a positive way. So let me get on with it. Well my only opportunity with the camera fell on a visit through work to Edinburgh where I had about an hour to wander the city centre