Wiston Lodge: Turning towards retreat
I’m just back from a four day retreat at Wiston Lodge lead by Dene Donalds that I found very powerful. My sinuses were
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Photography
No IR Film required
These trees are the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were a vivid yellow/green and just a red filter in post process produces this effect.
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Frosty morning at Loch Ness Shores Campsite
Stepping out for a few minutes before breakfast can be magical. Camping makes this more likely.
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Size is important
To encounter something living that is massively larger than you are on your way to nursery but change you.
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Updated my theme
I just used the Fukasawa theme on the Botanics Stories blog so I decided to update my own blog to something else –
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How to lie with a photo
What I like about photography is it is so often about what you want to say and not what reality is. Mixing this
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Unusual light for Edinburgh
For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone
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Henry mobbed by his public
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At
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The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?
I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/21562
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Back from the Lakes
We have just had a week camping in the English Lake District. It didn’t rain the whole time. Very enjoyable in a gentle
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Botanic Cottage People
About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I
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HRH Princess Royal
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
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How shallow can you go
I have had an interesting evening torn between two shots I took today. Same subject and almost the same pose but one with
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XF14mm f2.8 on X-Pro1 & X-Pro2
This is a quick post to host some camera phone snaps for a discussion about the new X-Pro2 and whether it has frame
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It was briefly winter today
It snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone.
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Two out of three of my green spaces under threat
Sunday evening and I’m taking the snaps off my camera. It has been dark and I’ve been hold up writing software for my Ten
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Solstice? Not Quite Yet
I thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is
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Botanic Cottage: Sutherland
Over the last year my main project has been photographing the people involved in reconstructing the Botanic Cottage. This is Sutherland who is the organiser
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The role of the artists
I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is “The Creation” and
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Sister Coa Nghiem
I’m just back from a week at Plum Village. I’d hoped to do some portraiture but didn’t really have time. Retreats are busy
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You are not what you look like
Mia shared this because it seemed relevant to my photography. I love it.
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Vlasta Jamnicky: June 2015
Vlasta is the interpretation officer at the Botanics so she tries to bring order to leaflets and signs and stuff.
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Paul Nesbitt: June 2015
Paul is curator of Inverleith House gallery at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a (surely THE) leading contemporary gallery in Scotland.
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Josephine: May 2015
Final day of the Wiston retreat.
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Jerry: May 2015
Just having received the 5 Mindfulness Trainings.
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Roland: May 2015
Is this Roland? Looking out the door at the end of the Wiston Retreat.
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Demetra: May 2015
We had been dealing with some very sad family things and were taking time to walk in some very beautiful woods in the
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Joscelyn: May 2015
In this case maybe colour.
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