The two houses of the woodland sprite
Red Campion is pink. It doesn’t matter how many times I look at it, or photograph it, it still looks pink to …
Red Campion is pink. It doesn’t matter how many times I look at it, or photograph it, it still looks pink to …
A panorama of Grobust beach on Westray.
What we throw away tells a lot about us. A quick look at my bin would tell you I like an occasional …
Limpets. Their traces are everywhere on the stones on Westray’s beaches. The name limpet means ‘rock-licker’ and that’s what they do, with …
The Potentilla is spreading with beautiful vigorous red runners over the shell sand at Grobust.
I’m sitting in a stone-age house; the new stone age, when the climate was warmer and people began to settle rather than …
The Arctic Skua is one of the most recognisable silhouettes in Orkney, patrolling the shoreline hunting for birds’ eggs, young birds and …
I’m wandering up to the cliffs at Noup Head to take some photographs of the Gannets. I decide not to when I …