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The Slingsby T31 is an old training glider, build (mostly) of wood and canvas. This example is part of the Portmoak collection, and this particular image was used in…
The first snow fell before Christmas, and I arrived at the airfield to discover a wonderful light – everything glowed very slightly. The weak links are used to…
As winter progressed and the cold increased it’s grip, some days had spectacular hoar frost. These images were taken at Loch na Creige, again taking advantage of the easy…
This loch was frozen for most of the 2009-2010 winter which was the coldest for 30 years, though it’s high (1300′, 396m) and I suspect it’s shallow so…
Still at Birnie Loch! This is one of the 2009 cygnets part-way through the process of changing it’s brown immature plumage for the white of an adult. It…
Also taken at Birnie Loch. Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me….
I found my new lens was excellent for ‘wildlife’ photography. Actually the resident birds at Birnie and Gaddon Lochs are fairly habituated to people, and this duck was quite…
The day before I took this photo my new 70-300mm lens arrived. Since the camera has a crop factor of x2, that equates to 140-600mm on a 35mm…
Amazingly people used to start learning to glide on one of these machines! They would do ground slides graduating to low hops, and then switch to something more…
Spotted Minnie posing regally on a cat bed, and she let me take this image. Her expression is absolutely her – an iron paw in a pretty thin…