On My Bookshelf - Explore & Discover The Outer and Inner Hebrides

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The Scottish Hebrides is a photographer’s paradise but with so much to see and to photograph, it can be hard to know where to start.  Explore & Discover The Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides by Christoper Swan and published by fotoVUE aims to transform your time in the area from random chaos to an efficient voyage of discovery and exploration. 

In this special on-location edition of On My Bookshelf, I put Explore & Discover The Outer Hebrides to a real-world test to see if it can get me to a new location so I capture a photograph of the Isle of Harris.

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On My Bookshelf - The Great Wilderness by Alex Nail

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In this episode of On My Bookshelf I look at @alexnails latest self-published book, The Great Wilderness.  This luxury hardback photography book covers one of Scotland's most remote regions and features images captured over a 4-year period from the Letterewe, Fisherfield and Dundonnell mountain areas.

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Photographing Glencoe and Vallerret Base Layers

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There are few better places to visit as a landscape photographer than Glencoe in Scotland. However, at this time of year, the temperatures can be low enough to make any unprepared photographer give up and go home. In this video, I will share the joy of landscape photography at one of Glencoe's most famous viewpoints and I also try out Vallerret's new range of merino wool base layers.

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In The Footsteps of Colin Prior

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Inspired by the landscape photographs I've seen in Colin Prior's book, Scotland's Finest Landscapes, I head to Loch Clair in Torridon to capture my own photographs of this stunning location. With only a few hours and typically Scottish weather, photography was always going to be a challenge!

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Should YOU Photograph the Honeypot Locations?

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Is there any point in capturing your own images from the landscape photography honeypot locations?  With so many images captured from these popular locations you could be forgiven for giving them a miss.  In this blog post I head to Glencoe in Scotland to photograph one of its most popular viewpoints and discuss why I think everyone should shoot a honeypot location.

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Mountain Landscape Photography - A 5 Minute Photo Adventure from Ben Cruachan

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The ascent of a Munro is a rare treat for me these days so I was really excited when I recently got the chance to walk up Ben Cruachan to do some mountain landscape photography in the Scottish Highlands.

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Printing and Framing a Special Landscape Photograph

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Some landscape photographs just need to be printed and hung on the wall.  In this blog post, I take a very special image, print it, frame it, and give it a permanent place on my wall.

 

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On My Bookshelf Special - Colin Prior or Alex Nail

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Colin Prior or Alex Nail? In this special episode of On My Bookshelf, I look at Colin Prior's Scotland's Finest Landscapes and Alex Nail's Northwest. Which one, if any, should you buy?

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Glencoe - One Location, 3 Compositions

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It’s almost impossible to drive through Glencoe and not want to stop to take some landscape photographs. In the blog this week I make an unscheduled stop in Glencoe and take 3 photographs from one location.

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Photographing Britain's National Parks

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In the blog this week I’m very happy to share with you the story of my latest adventure. Check out the images and video I captured as I travel to three different national parks, across three countries and all in one day!

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Grey Mare's Tail and Loch Skene: A 5 Minute Photo Adventure

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In this blog post, I share with you the story, photographs and video of my time photographing Loch Skeen and Grey Mare's Tail.  This is another location I discovered just off the M74.

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Creating Panoramic Images of Glen Etive with a Drone: A 5 Minute Photo Adventure

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In this blog post, I share with you the story, photographs and video of how I went about creating some aerial panoramic images with my DJI Mavic Pro drone.

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Developing a Passion for Printing

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In the vlog this week I expand my printing skills by printing a panoramic image on panoramic paper and then mounting it into a custom-made panoramic frame.  I also take a look at some different paper types to try and see what impact each one has on an image.

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Glencoe Adventure - Part 1, The Workshop

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In this first of two special Glencoe blog posts I'll share with you my images and stories from the Dawn 2 Dusk Glencoe workshop that I attended recently.  It was a fantastic few days of photography.  Though the weather was typically Scottish at times, the variable conditions resulted in some awesome images.

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