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There's a really lovely little cafe near me. It's the sort of place that serves very home made and rustic sorts of food, simple recipes with quality ingredients. Quite a lot of their dishes are vegan or

What do you have in your store cupboard and what are you going to do with them? While I'm on the topic of food I'm quite fond of using simple and ordinary ingredients in cooking and turning them into something

When I was up North we took a little detour through Abroath. This is a lovely coastal town. It has a few places of interest, things to do, a football club and an ancient ruined abbey. There is a pretty

If you've followed my other posts at all then you'd know that I am a photographer. Now it may surprise you to read this but I do not count photography as one of my hobbies. To me it's a job. It's a business.

Running a photography business, or any business where you are an independent or solo worker has challenges and has a couple of vital necessities. One of those I'd argue is recurring revenue. If you have

I've been out and about recently so not partcualrly active on Steemit. I went on a trip to Aberdeen. Was going to a concert rather than being there for photography. So that meant taking my least important

When someone visits Scotland one of the first questions or suggestions they will be given will be "have you been to Skye?" It's a lovely island. Stunning landscape. Easy to get to. What's not

Part 3. Composition. Let's just get right down to the nitty and the gritty of photography. Every course or guide about photography says the same thing at this point. It will mention rule of thirds, lead

Back to the Iron Age. If you get the chance to ever go, I highly recommend paying a visit to the Crannog centre at Loch Tay. This is a recreation of an Iron age dwelling. Crannogs were round houses built

It was one of those days where the weather defeats you. The plan was to do a lot of photos around Edinburgh. It did look quite mysterious in the rain and fog. But it was just too horrible to be outside

Stirling docks used to be here. Dating from a time when Scotland traded with other Hansa countries. You can still see some of the markings in doorways around the city centre. It looks like a backwards

You might recognise this place from Outlander (or Monty Python or Game of Thrones) Doune Castle - Zorki 5 - Ilford XP2 400 This is Doune Castle near Stirling on the road to Callander and the Trossachs.

Stirling Castle is the proper Castle. Home of the Stuart Kings and with the finest Renaissance building. It's also apparently haunted by a ghost called the Gren Lady. I saw and experienced something weird

Famously there is only one Lake in Scotland* The Lake of Menteith (*actually there are a few but they're not well known) Nobody really knows why it has this name. On old maps it is referred to in it's

Part 2. In Part 1 I talked about a simple way into 35mm photography by buying a cheap compact. The next step is to choose a type of film to use. If you have a smartphone for photography then you are probably

In looking for images to illustrate my other posts I found quite a few that I'd like to use but didn't quite fit. This was one and I felt the portrait layout made the page hard to read. Taken at sunset

Part 1 As I said in a previous post I'm going to make a photography course on Steemit. If you didn't grow up using film (or even if you did) there are a lot of choices of gear and of film which can be

Over the next little while I'm going to be posting a little photography course. I think it'd be a good way of sharing my skills and hopefully it can inspire you to go out and make things. I'd like to start

For most of the week I've been stuck in the snow. I wasn't able to post anything on here for a few days. Though getting snowed in with your family is not really a hardship. I really loved it. On the 1st

One of my fave places in Glasgow is Kelvingrove Park. It's a little bit of the country hidden behind the city. Pretty much everywhere you go in the Park the clock tower of Glasgow University is visible.