Tim's Pictures

I have used a variety of camera equipment, including Nikon D70, Olympus E-500 and Nikon D200 dSLRs, an Olympus Trip 35mm, a Bronica SQa, Hasselblad 500CM, Ricoh 500G, Canon G9, a Rollei 6006 and a Shen-Hao large-format camera.

The best of my photographs make it into my Gallery. I have a set of essays on photographic techniques if anyone finds it helpful. A selection of my work is for sale as prints, cards and posters from RedBubble. Should you find a photo here that you wish to purchase but isn't available just yet, contact me and I'll gladly upload it. Miscellaneous works in progress can be found here; I have an ongoing series of experiments in darkroom / analogue / alternative processing / contact-printing. I've recently added a photo-blog, complete with RSS feed.

2010-07-21 glencoe-july-2010	View full-size	Many mountains: photos of Ben Nevis shrouded in mist; in Glencoe, the wind blowing a tree and ferns around with Aonach Eagach in the distance; sunlight on the Three Sisters; and the classic view of Black Rock Cottage beside the Glencoe Ski Centre.
2010-07-20 misc/glenbogle	View full-size	Photos of Ardverikie house and estate (Glenbogle Castle in Monarch of the Glen) from across Loch Laggan, Highland.
2010-07-20 gask-stone-circle	View full-size	Photos from the B861 back-road to Inverness: overlooking the town; skyscapes above and landscape around the Gask stone circle, one of the largest surviving Clava-type (burial) Cairns.
2010-07-03 rest and be thankful loch restil thistles	View full-size	An early morning trip to the Rest and Be Thankful: the glacial valley of Glen Croe; symmetrical reflections of green hillsides in Loch Restil; the Easan Dubh waterfall; closeups of thistles.
2010-06-24 misc/20100623-extension ring macro test	View full-size	A quick test of some new EF-mount extension rings for the Canon EOS550D: closeups of a CD-ROM, Tamron lens-cap and raindrops on honeysuckle leaves in the garden.
2010-06-14 farr loch duntelchaig	View full-size	Photographs of erratic limestone boulders, young green fern plants, trees and a distant wind-farm, in Strathnairn.
2010-06-13 inverness-kessock-bridge	View full-size	When in Inverness, study bridges: photographs of purple and green stripes illuminating a bridge over the River Ness in the city centre; a trick image combining 60 exposures over the course of 7 minutes, combined into one frame showing motion-blur of the mouth of the Ness and Kessock Bridge as the tide came in.
2010-06-09 falls of foyers	View full-size	I called in at Foyers on the way back home: photos of closeups of bluebells in spring, and studies how HDR and image-stacking moving water affects motion-blur in the waterfall, the Falls of Foyers.
2010-06-08 black isle cromarty dolphins	View full-size	A trip around the Black Isle: beach scenery and photographs of dolphins playing off Chanonry Point, closeups of flowers; oil-rigs and industry in the Cromarty Firth.
2010-06-08 Glen Affric 20100605	View full-size	Photos taken in and around Glen Affric: several views and a panorama of Loch Affric, reflections of Scots Pine trees in Loch Beinn a Mheadhoin, rocks down by the river; also a trip to Plodda Falls experimenting with HDR rendering the waterfall.
2010-06-02 bonfire strathnairn solar halo	View full-size	Landscapes around Strathnairn, Highlands: a solar halo with the sun low in the sky, beside Loch Ruthven; experiments with HDR and panorama blending of moving flames in a bonfire.
2010-05-31 glasgow sunday evening 2010	View full-size	Photos from Buchanan Street, Glasgow, taken in a spare 20 minutes one Sunday evening: people at the top of the street near Donald Dewar's statue, partial reflections in the windows of All Saints clothes shop, showing through to old retro-style sewing machines.
2010-05-23 20100523-garden-500mm-lens-bokeh	View full-size	I recently dug-out an adapter to mount my Centon 500mm f/8 mirror lens on Canon AF fit, so I spent a happy ten minutes in the garden experimenting with it. The focus is way too soft to be used for serious imaging and it's such a long focal-length it needs a tripod or a high ISO even in daylight, but it is good for abstract ring-shaped bokeh.
2010-05-22 20100521-garden flowers closeups	View full-size	Closeup studies of flowers and buds on a hot bright sunny spring/summer day, in the garden: vibrant colours, narrow depth of field, an azalea, a rhododendron and a mahonia.
2010-05-21 solar-halo-timelapse-a82	View full-size	Photos from a drive along the A82 from the Highlands: closeups of flowers and plants in Spring and a view of Loch Tarff in the evening, and a brilliant 22-degree solar halo as the sun set below mountains on the opposite side of Loch Lochy.
2010-05-15 st-andrews east neuk fife	View full-size	Tourist destinations in the East Neuk of Fife: studies of quaint streets, the castle and eroding stonework at the ruined abbey in St Andrews, lobster pots at Crail harbour, boats in Anstruther harbour.
2010-05-11 skyscapes landscapes a82	View full-size	Sky, land and water: appreciating huge white clouds in the evening sun whilst driving along the A82; views of the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus; the perfectly shaped mountain Beinn a Bheitir with Sgorr Dhonnuill in Glencoe; abstract closeup photos of colourful slate in a road cutting at North Ballachulish.
2010-05-10 findhorn kinross 2010	View full-size	Testing my new Canon EOS 550D with Tamron lens: photos of dead bleached white tree-trunks and windsurfing in a cart along the beach at Findhorn; a yellow wagtail sitting on gorse/broom shrubs beside RAF Kinloss.
2010-05-05 lf-dunstaffnage-chess	View full-size	An experimental set, a scene to be entitled Five Castles at Dunstaffnage, a poor visual joke. Taken on the Shen-Hao large-format camera, rodenstock 150mm lens, gratuitous use of movements, Ilford Delta-100 black-and-white film, developed in Paterson Aculux 3.
2010-05-01 glen creran may 2010	View full-size	Photos from an afternoon stroll around Glen Creran and Glen Ure in Argyll: studies in the green colours of trees, tree branch shape and form closeup; submerged stones; several red deer stags on nearby hillsides.
2010-04-25 trees highlands april 2010	View full-size	A study in trees in Strathnairn, many lichen-covered and some with red/purple raspberry-style bud/flowers growing; also some black-and-white sky photos.
2010-04-20 misc/spring has sprung inverawe 2010	View full-size	Photographs taken in the evening out walking the dogs in Inverawe: closeup studies of tree buds and shrub blossom emerging, a hail storm cloud passing over Ben Cruachan and a rainbow.
2010-04-18 glen affric april 2010	View full-size	Photos from a holiday around Glen Affric: closeup studies of rocks (various chlorite schist and possibly some gneiss), trees (lichen-covered silver birches and old Scots Pine trees in the Caledonian Forest reserve) and water (clear reflections of trees, abstract views of foam from the rapids on the river).
2010-04-06 inverawe floods easter 2010	View full-size	Quick photos from a lunchtime walk with the dogs through Inverawe country estate, Argyll, Scotland: two burns coming down the hillside have flooded over the road, muddy water everywhere!
2010-04-03 argyll-april-2010	View full-size	Photos taken around Argyll: a drive down the west side of Loch Awe to Kilchrenan, Dalavich and Inverinan, studying the forests except the Foresty Commission have clear-felled many of the trees, leaving ugly sparse hillsides; panoramas and HDR images of Ben Cruachan from the south; boats on the shore of Loch Avich.