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I have just finished processing my images from my Scotland trip. 60 images that are worth keeping. Ken

Loch Tummel is the next Loch up from Loch Faskally about 10 miles on a typically narrow twisting road. The light was flat but this allowed the detail in the trees to stand out. Ken Looking at the above I noticed what initially looks like a better crop, Comments? Fully polarising the...

The first image is Castle Menzies, Glen Lyon, Perthshire, a 16thC castle recently restored. The rest are situated around Loch Tummel in Perthshire. They were probably built as family homes but they may just have been shooting lodges. I think that they are now Hotels although I am not sure, they...

Trying to predict the best time to travel to take Autumn foliage at peak colour is difficult. Leave it too late and you are left with bare branches, too early and you have lots of green. This year was perfect in some locations and too late in others but overall I had a wonderful time especially...

These are just quick processing attempts on my laptop. No mouse just the trackpad. We have been here for 2 days and definitely got lucky with the weather and the colours are stunning for Scotland. I will probably reprocess these images when I get home, good monitor and a mouse. Ken Typical...

We had a storm last Sunday with winds gusting to 80mph stripping lots of leaves but many have survived in this local gorge. I will probably travel up to Perthshire in Scotland at the weekend. Perthshire is probably the best Autumn colour location in Britain until then this will have to do. Ken

Built for William Armstrong a wealthy industrialist and engineer in the 19thC William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia . It was the first house in the world lit by hydro electricity and it still is Cragside | Northumberland | National Trust . William was a polymath who started working...

Porth Nanven near Lands End sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean and is a beautiful soft sandy beach with nice rocks at either end of the cove. On this visit I had only about a 2ft swell but no wind so no wind driven waves. Luckily this does produce some backwash. No backwash as the waves...

For the first time I was able to see colours in the Aurora. Some movement in the green sheets not much in the red but the red was very visible even through the street lights in town. I was in a hurry to process this for you and didn't use any noise reduction. This is looking East. It should...

This was early in the night, about 8pm. The Aurora really kicked off at 3 in the morning with a KP level 3 times higher than this but I was safely tucked up in bed and only discovered this when I reviewed the data. I am happy with the images but for this I wish that I had bought the Sony 14mm...

This is a 10 minute walk from home For a few seconds the Aurora started dancing but by the time that the Long Exposure Noise Reduction had stopped and I got the camera into position it was over but seeing it was great

In fiction Dartmoor is portrayed as a wild, windswept, inhospitable place but it must have been in benign mode during my visit in September. In reality it is a plateau at about 1,000ft with granite Tors jutting up. Hay Tor, the couple on top give a sense of scale Dartmoor has "wild" ponies...

I don't know why I didn't post these at the time. This Trebarwith Strand, at low tide it is just a beautiful sandy beach 300yds deep and half a mile wide but as the tide rises the slate formations produce pleasant foregrounds. This is the North Atlantic in very calm mood with almost no swell...

This was our last day in Cornwall. We were packing up to return to our friend's house in Devon and decided to visit one last coastal location despite the terrible weather, low scudding clouds, intermittent heavy rain and a very brisk wind. The day before I had got a little too close to a...

This is Bedruthen Steps in North Cornwall with the Atlantic Ocean on the left. Unfortunately 3 years ago a series of rockfalls swept the only easy path away. It is possible to get down but only at low tide with the distinct possiblity of getting cut off. The couple on the beach are a good 20...

I was just too late to see the strongest show but it reached Kp6 tonight and maybe Kp7 tomorrow so check Aurora forecast Apps tonight and tomorrow. Ken

The North Cornish coast has cliffs and beautiful beaches and should have large Atlantic rollers pounding in. Unfortunately we have a few days of calm seas, but I try to make the best of it. Ken Bedruthen Steps Trebarwith

No! not the geese flying South. This area is general and the coastal salt marshes in particular is a favourite over wintering area for wildfowl despite being further North than Newfoundland. It is the first hint of yellow in the trees. Ken

I had a few hours to spare last Saturday when I drove my wife to a meeting in North Yorkshire. This is a limestone area with vast cave systems complete with underground rivers and waterfalls but I am claustrophobic and the thought of being in even the largest cave gets me in a sweat. So it has...

I was in the mood to do some mono processing today. Firstly a grungy contrasty image of Saint Conan's Kirk in Western Scotland. In a softer mood I went for the minimalist "fine art" look. I will experiment further with this style of image. Every time I alter the luminosity and contrast in...