By Paul Perton | Opinion
I’m staring at an empty document. About to write a piece for DS (DearSusan), which is suddenly derailed. I’ve allowed myself to become distracted midway through the opening sentence and now find it necessary to veer off to the Interwebs for a shot of inspiration. And failed – as more distractions came along. We don’t […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Early July signals our departure for the north of Scotland, to join friends for what has become an annual week of salmon fishing on the Spey. This is (I think) our sixth visit and the fishing remains difficult and for reasons unknown, not very productive. No matter. I have a camera(s) with me and can […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Like many of us over the years I’ve seen numerous television programs exploring the ancient Hebridean Islands. Our exploration took place upon this old converted mackerel trawler. Having said this Splendour lives up to her name. The food served aboard is some of the best the 8 of us have every had the pleasure of […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
South west Scotland. The fancifully named St John’s Town of Dalry, not far from Dumfries. A self-designed and built home, sustainable and incorporating as much eco-technology as possible. A mammoth task and even during the building work, photographers Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson decided to make the magnificent scenery around the house a project […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
So, dog years are nothing. It turns out 7 days in Scotland is worth 100 photographic years in most other places of the world. If you want to live long and prosper as a tog, may I suggest a trip up North for a bewildering variety of themes and locations ? Great (as in really […]
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By Bob Hamilton | Review
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. Well, here’s an 8 000 word review that involves little reading! Took a wee trip into the hills of the Southern Highlands on Tuesday to a location where I was pretty certain, from previous experience, I’d get some shots of Red Kites (and other birds) and […]
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By Bob Hamilton | Opinion
Bob Hamilton is a regular contributor to DearSusan. He makes some interesting points here which might interest us all in this lengthy article. **************************************************************************** I’m getting on in years and have this increasing urge to push my personal envelope and, at the same time, do something which has a bit more purpose and meaning, photographically […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
I’ll leave the ooh and ahs to tourist guides and go straight to the point : if you’ve never been to Edinburgh and love photography, you’re in for a mighty treat. The city has an energy and grandeur that’s palpable in photography and it offers a wonderful variety of subjects in a very tight space. […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
Pascal’s last Monday Post might have been an easy to skip piece for many of you. After all, the Interwebs delivers incredible stuff – right to your desktop. Indeed it does. It also does some bad things, too. Here’s one; it’s my story, my contribution to this conversation. […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Driech* is pretty much how the weather has been in the far north for the last few days. Just as well we’re used to the vagaries of Scotland’s summers and have learned to pack accordingly. The local outdoor and fleece shops have done well enough from us in past years, so now we’ve got […]
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