Category: Photography

For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone who knows Scotland will appreciate how unusual this is. Waverley station was transformed by the light. I found myself taking photos again.  

I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?  

We have just had a week camping in the English Lake District. It didn’t rain the whole time. Very enjoyable in a gentle family kind of way. We played rummy in the evenings.

Stuart Beattie, director of Scotland’s Churches Trust, liked the portrait I made of him and asked if I might photograph the visit of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal (their patron) to a function at the St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral. The last royal I photographed was the queen. It was 1977. I…

Vlasta is the interpretation officer at the Botanics so she tries to bring order to leaflets and signs and stuff.

We had been dealing with some very sad family things and were taking time to walk in some very beautiful woods in the Chilterns to find space. It was a time when the power of Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) was really important.  

I spent some time this weekend moving across to Adobe Lightroom from Apple Aperture. I can’t say it has been a pleasant experience but Lightroom does look like it will be much better than the long neglected Aperture. Aperture was the only Mac specific software I ran. After ten years…