Selina and Geoff

Selina and Geoff married at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, with their reception at the Atholl Arms.

Enjoy your honeymoon in America, Selina and Geoff, your wedding images will be on line by Friday 16th May.

Be My Bear

Today was my daughter's 5th Birthday party and she had 11 of her friends around to the house for a Be My Bear Party. Carolie Hart was the party organiser and she did a fabulous job of keeping 11 girls entertained.

It was quite a party seeing 12 toy bears being assembled in my sitting room. All the bears also came with a birth certificate, clothes and a special carrier bag so each girl went home with a new best friend.

I highly recommend Catherine Hart and her team - more details of her parties are included at Bear Party Zone. I think this is a great idea for weddings where there are lots of children to entertain.

Please note the above group photograph was taken with permission of the parents except one girl who has been digitally removed from the photograph as I did not have a model release for her.

New Photo Cart

Very busy programming and installing a new secure commercial shopping cart.

Come Mid May I hope to have a secure shopping cart such that all my commissions will be password protected and all purchases of prints / canvases / albums can be made on-line.

This is part of my 2008 business plan for improving customer service. Please watch the blog for more details.

Katy and Richard

Today I met up with Katy and Richard for a pre wedding shoot at Keavil House, Dunfermline. These pre wedding shoots allow us to go over the couples plans for the day and pose for a few photographs.

Some of my favourites from the pre wedding shoot are shown above all taken under the shade of a mature tree in the hotel grounds. I have several weddings at Keavil House this year and I am very much looking forward to them.

Gold Rush

Another trip to Ruddon Point near Earlsferry and what must be one of my favourite spots on the Fife Coast. The location is desolate, the sea surges and swells around what is an old lava flow from a long extinct volcano, the wind whips across the rocks and there's nothing but the roar of the ocean.

In the distance are two peaks which are the hills local to me - West Lomond and East Lomond. On days like this I almost feel like a prospector or a pioneer, seeking that gold nugget, a landscape photograph that one day may become iconic for this area.

Kick

My youngest son is football daft and tonight we practised some free kicks in the local park in Milnathort.

The threatening clouds full of snow made a great backdrop as he launched shots of the crest of a hill.

Every Cloud...

Landscape photography sometimes demands great patience. As I stood on the edge of a volcanic flow at Ruddon Point on the Fife Coast with the sea swirling around my boots I wished for a cloud to drift across the setting sun.

They say every cloud has a silver lining well here the cloud allowed me shoot straight into the setting sun as well as capture the force of the sea as it rushed around me and capture one of my favourite landscapes to date.

Kirsty and Neil

Kirsty and Neil married at Kenmore Kirk, Perthshire with their wedding reception afterwards at the Courtyard Restaurant.

Enjoy your honeymoon in South Africa, Kirsty and Neil, your wedding images will be on line in two weeks time.

The Devils Stones

I hope those in the South of England and Wales are okay following today's severe storms. Yesterday was ideal conditions for seascapes - high spring tides, squally conditions with dramatic skies and light

The Fife Coast has very striking geology and in the distance of this landscapes is Largo Law an extinct volcano. The title relates to an old story about the devil throwing boulders in the Kingdom of Fife.

Search Lights

I have been neglecting the blog lately as I have been so busy with enquiries both for weddings and framed landscapes. I am almost fully booked now for weddings in 2008. While I am currently planning an exhibition of my landscapes for later in the year.

This dramatic landscape photograph was taken in the freezing fog at St Monans in Fife. Fog can make for very atmospheric conditions and very dramatic light - here I waited for the fog to drift such that shafts of weak sunlight lit the Firth of Forth.

Celebration of Genius

Last Friday I had a ticket for the opening night of Celebration of Genius the new Ansel Adams exhibition at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh.

I highly recommend the exhibition. It is the largest ever display of Ansel Adam's work outside of America. Lindsay Robertsons work is excellent too.

Inspired by the exhibition I went out in the fog last Sunday and took this black and white landscape at the Findatie Sluice on Loch Leven.

I shall also be relaunching my own on-line portfolio of Scottish Landscape Photographs with a view to my own exhibition later this year.

West Vows

Tonight's sunset was really unusual - a band of vivid orange just above the horizon and black skies above.

This seascape was taken at Earlsferry looking towards the wee island of West Vows.