Mountains
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to have explored many of Britain’s bobbly bits. More than any other muse, these mountain landscapes are responsible for inspiring my love of the natural world - and with it, my photographic doodles.
With hill-trips now at a premium - and my current portfolio only picking up pace in 2020 - the initial images presented here are very much an Ode to Arran. This is hopefully not too much of a constraint, as the rugged granite peaks of this wee Scottish island provide a worthwhile study in their own right, their personality as spiky as their rocky summits!
A trip to Moidart during September 2023 has allowed me to augment my Arran archive with just a few shots from Scotland’s magnificent Western Highlands…
Cìr Mhòr, North Face
(Isle of Arran)
Cìr Mhòr, South Face
(Isle of Arran)
Mountain Meanderings, Part 1 - Isle of Arran (Scotland)
If Two Ronnies (One Corbett) had Four Candles, where do Two Glens (One Island) have Four Corbetts? Yep, it’s the Forked (Handled) Mountains of Arran… ;-)
(North-Facing Panorama from the Slopes of Cnoc Dubh)
(South-Facing Panorama from the Upper Slopes of Caisteal Abhail)
(Cloudy Morning, Glen Rosa)
(Cìr Mhòr)
The images in this sub-section are all taken from my Arran hill-walking archive (2017-19), with special thanks to the North Goatfell Rock Monster for allowing his likeness to be shared!
(North Goatfell)
Mountain Meanderings, Part 2 - Western Highlands (Scotland)
The brief selection below is from a family trip to Moidart during September 2023. Highlights include a Loch Moidart cloud inversion, plus day-trips to the Isle of Eigg and Ardnamurchan (Ben Hiant).
(Cloud Inversion from Cruach nam Meann, Western Highlands)
(A Sea of Cloud - Over Loch Moidart to the Distant Islands of Eigg and Rùm)
(Ascending An Sgùrr via Galmisdale Farmhouse)
(Descending An Sgùrr via Galmisdale Farmhouse)
(Poaching a Scramble in the Small Isles)
(From the Bare Bones of Ben Hiant to the Hazy Hills of Moidart)
Mountain Archives - The Rocky Recesses of Memory Lane
While my Mountain portfolio is currently quite concise, I should acknowledge that many more memories are vying for attention in a rich personal history of ups and downs amid Britain’s loftiest terrain (for more on this, please see my Archive pages). These old images are too numerous or dog-eared to display here, though some of them - including reclaimed film shots from historic Highland adventures - can be found elsewhere on this website.
To view a selection of archive imagery presented in context (some might say too much context!), please check out my feature-length ‘wilderness’ blogs…
- Camera on the Crags (exploring origins and antics of my mountain obsession)
- The Ballad of Bellever Tor (a Dartmoor-themed poem and musings on myth)
- Shadow in the Tin (fact and fiction in Britain’s finest range - the Cuillin of Skye)
- The Curious Case of Rose and Laurie (Arran’s true Victorian murder-mystery)
Ben More,
Central Highlands of Scotland
(Film Archive, 2003)
Sgurr nan Gillean,
Black Cuillin of Skye
(Film Archive, 1995)
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