New Images of Glen Coe

I have added some new images of Glen Coe to my web gallery on davebutcher.co.uk. Here's a link to just the new ones. They were taken over several trips in summer and winter, with and without snow. Hope you like them!

Pap of Glencoe and Loch Leven

3 Sisters of Glen Coe and Aonach Eagach

3 Sisters of Glen Coe

 Aonach Eagach Ridge

 Aonach Eagach from Glen Coe

Glencoe Lochan Reflections

Lower Glen Coe Falls

New Images of the Orkneys

There are quite a few new images of the Orkneys on my web site. Mainly Orkney Mainland but a few other islands too.
 Here's the permanent link to the Orkneys photographs.

Stones of Stenness Sunset

Ring of Brodgar

Fisherman's Huts at Marwick Bay

Old Man of Hoy

Orkney Mainland from Ward Hill Summit on Hoy

Hoxa Head View, South Ronaldsay

Clachaig Photo Course

Here are some photos from our recent landscape photography course based in the Glencoe area.

Everyone took some spectacular shots at the 15 of so locations. Weather could have been better but it was good enough for atmospheric black and white shots.

All taken on my mobile phone.

We seemed to spend a few lunch times and evenings at the Clachaig Inn so the course was rechristened as the Clachaig Photo Course!

Glencoe Photo Trip

Jan is driving us north for 6 hours to Glen Coe. We're about halfway, a bit south of Glasgow.

Warm and sunny here unlike Derbyshire which was cold and wet.

We have some time to ourselves until Monday afternoon when we collect 2 clients from Fort William station. We are running a landscape photography course Tuesday to Thursday from our base at Fern Villa in Ballachulish village. Looking forward to seeing Andrew from Nottingham again, one of our regular clients arriving Monday night.

Forecast is good for tomorrow and Sunday. Planning to walk up to Pap of Glencoe and along to the famous Aonach Eagach ridge. Fingers crossed for good light on the ridge or it may be difficult to take in black and white. I took some shots of it about 15 years ago when we first traversed the narrow ridge during our munroing days and the light was flat. Some snow on it would be even better!

Looking forward to checking out the many waterfalls in Glen Coe as well as one of my favourite locations down Glen Etive.

Bring it on!

Scotland Trip - Kirkhill in the sunshine

After all the rain recently it's nice to see the sun as we arrive in Kirkhill near Inverness.
We are staying with our good friends Mick and Kay, along with friends Brian and Maf, Rick and Glenn. Another 2 arrive tomorrow and we meet a further 3 on Orkney on Saturday.
Tomorrow is a recovery day for my bad back and we will walk around Inverness and the Caledonian canal and check out the odd pub or two. Saturday we drive north to Scrabster to catch the ferry to Orkney. Then we have a week based near Stromness. I will be taking some photos of the standing stones and the coast. Fingers crossed for nice weather!

New Munro's page on web site

For almost 12 years to June 1996 my wife Jan and I walked the Munro's in Scotland (mountains over 3000 feet). There are 284 of them, hence the length of time involved. I have just created a new web page called Munro's with quite a bit of detail on this extended walking and climbing project. It took a lot of planning to group them into reasonable walking days without leaving too many single peaks scattered across the Highlands.

http://www.davebutcher.co.uk/triplog/munros

There will also soon be a complete list of the Munro's in the order in which we walked them, including walk times and other details.

I took lots of photographs during this time, some of which are on my web site. You can find them by visiting the Landscapes Gallery - Refine Keywords - Munro, this will show all of them so far available. Alternatively, just click the link here:

http://www.davebutcher.co.uk/gallery/landscapes?key=Munro

I have hundreds and thousands more so if you don't see the Munro you are interested in please contact me, there is a good chance I will have something in my picture library. For information, I also have lots of photographs of other mountains in Scotland that are not Munro's (we still visit Scotland regularly), again ask if you don't see what you are looking for.

The photographs displayed here are, from the top, Sgurr Fhuaran (5 Sisters of Kintail), Buachaille Etive Mor (Glen Coe/Glen Etive) and Sgurr nan Gillean and Am Basteir (Black Cuillins on Skye).

Dave Butcher