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

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

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