We are at the ICHF Crafts for Christmas show at the Glasgow SECC. It's open Thursday to Sunday 9.30am to 5pm. Our stand number is D12.
I've included a picture of the stand to help you recognise when you've found us!
We brought lots of prints, well over 300 in fact, as well as books. Lots of new images.
Hope to see you here!
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!
Last day for checking out the state of locations that we wanted to use for our Glencoe photo course that starts Tuesday 25th.
Lots of waterfalls in Glen Etive. Shots from Lochan Urr where I took one of my best reflection photos ever a few years ago. Had to clear a path through rhodedendron bushes to reach waters edge.
Photos here from mobile and edited on phone. Proper film versions in a few weeks!
All 3 clients arrived this afternoon. Good evening in local pub getting to know one another. First day of course tomorrow taking waterfalls as forecast not brilliant for big views.
I ran off another 7 rolls of Ilford FP4 120 film today, 11 in total for this trip. Lots of boats and coastal/sea loch shots to start with around Glencoe and Loch Leven. Later on we returned to the Glencoe Lochans for reflections of the mountains. Then it was up Glen Coe for more mountain shots, including the 3 Sisters and the Buachaille.
The light was rapidly going so we finished early by checking out the Kingshouse Hotel. Jolly interesting as we arrived, there were 4 Red Deer eating carrots and other vegetables outside the front door! See mobile photo.
They had 3 cask ales on, all from the Cairngorm Brewery. I preferred the Stag Bitter best. I also tried Autumn Nuts, a red ale but it was too hoppy for me.
The weather is due to take a dive tomorrow. Keeping fingers crossed we're far enough north to avoid the worst of it.
It was a fantastic day in Glen Coe today. Chilly but lots of blue sky with white fluffy clouds all day until 5pm.
We started by climbing the Pap of Glencoe from the Long Leven side; the steepest side but no track.
Good views from the top along the lake and across to the Mamores mountains were spectacular. Ben Nevis was in cloud though but better was to come.
From here we went down to the pass and then it was a long uphill haul to Sgorr nam Fionnaidh (967m), the Munro at the end of the Aonach Eagach ridge.
This gave us the first view of the Aonach Eagach ridge. It was after 2pm and the light and sky were great. I used an orange filter with Ilford FP4 roll film in my Mamiya 7 camera.
I thought there were better views further along the ridge so down I went to it.
The shots of the ridge were great as well as views to Ben Nevis, highest peak in Britain at 1344m.
We ended the day by checking out the waterfalls on the uphill side of the Clachaig Inn, near the A82. The falls were well lit at 5pm but the hills behind could have have been brighter.
Somehow we then found ourselves at the Clachaig Inn. They had a new dark ale just on from the An Teallach brewery called Hector. I tried it several times to check it was jolly nice and not just a fluke with the first pint, you can't be too careful these days! Oh, and the food was jolly good too.
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!
Just 1 day to go at the ICHF craft Show at Penshurst Place. It ends 5pm tomorrow.
Lots to see with 10 marquees and more. We still have lots of pictures, we brought about 500 down with us to make sure we didn't run out!
Good forecast too, hotter than today at 26°C.
We're stand F17.
