Chris Bowness' photos

This is a bracketed seven shot HDR that I took with my Olympus EP-1 around a dozen years ago. I used the open source QTPFSGUI to tonemap it and finished it in Gimp. After taking this picture I realised I was standing under a tree that had fallen and was being held up by just a few small branches above me. I learned to take more care in the woods that day...

I took this picture with my phone as I liked the light. I made it B&W as I found the colour distracting.

Wood Hill is my favourite viewpoint on the Ochil Hills. I've taken many pictures here of which this is one. I set off with the intention of getting a sunset picture and I was in luck on this occasion. This is a five shot bracketed HDR which I tone mapped in Luminance HDR and finished in Gimp.

I took this picture from a hill called Ben Buck. It's about a 680m climb and 4.5 km walk from the valley below. This picture looks south and beyond the top of Ben Cleuch (721m) in front, you can see the light pollution from the Forth Valley of Scotland which has many hundreds of thousands of people living there.

I had to go somewhere, but I planned to leave earlier to grab a few picture, since it was a clear night. This was one of them.

I took a few shots with my mobile as I was about to head down from King's Seat Hill in the Ochil Hills. That night, Google photos just randomly stitched this panoramic together for me.

My friend and I were walking on a snowy plateau in the hills of Scotland when a cloud enveloped us. Suddenly everything was white and it was very surreal. Knowing where you are in this situation is essential.

This picture was taken at the very windy summit of Derry Cairngorm in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. My friend and I were on the third day of a wild camping trip. The adventure was meant to last a week, but we gave up after climbing here due to the misery of the Midges, which are small biting insects that attack in their thousands when you're trying to camp.

I took a day off work a couple of weeks ago to walk from Kinghouse Hotel in Glencoe to Kinlochleven. My friend wanted to go up the steep part that is called the Devil's staircase. It wasn't that steep to us day trippers, but I can understand that folks who've walked a 100 odd miles on the West Highland Way may have other ideas! My friends little Jack Russell lead the way.

This picture was taken on the north banks of the Beauly Firth in Scotland during the month of July. It didn't look right in colour so I made the surrounding landscape black and white whilst keeping the original red colour of the shed.

This was taken on a walk around Loch Affric in Scotland.

I took this in early 2017. I woke up late on a Saturday and saw that there was heavy fog outside and frost was still on the ground. I drove to my local hills, the Ochil Hills, and climbed above the fog into a beautiful sunny day. I walked about for a while enjoying the winter sunshine and taking pictures, including this one. Everyone below was enveloped in gloomy frosty fog whilst I was getting the sun on my skin. I drove home with a big grin!

Dollar is a village in Central Scotland. It has a "Burn" which is the Scottish name for a stream running through it. In the winter, the locals put up lights above it, they are more winter lights than Christmas lights as they are there most of the winter. I came here when I got my new camera and did my first ever focus stack that I processed using Luminar Neo.

I took this picture with my phone whilst heading back to my car after climbing my local hill, Dumyat. The sun was setting and it made for a delightful walk.

This is a focus stack that I put together and edited using Luminar Neo. I like getting up early when I am in Norfolk and walk the lanes trying to find a nice spot to catch the sunrise. It's more tempting to get out of bed early here than it is in Scotland, as it's warmer....

I find myself in Norfolk occasionally and I particularly like exploring the lanes and rights of way in this lovely rural place...whilst feasting on the tasty blackberries that are everywhere at this time of year. The churches are all similar, but unique. There's loads of them dotted about and they are all mostly clad in flint.

I took this when climbing Beinn Sgulaird on the West Coast of Scotland. I particularly remember it being very windy on the top and being bombarded with ice crystals from the snow being blown off the mountain. I was glad I had eye and face protection! These mountains aren't high but they are full of surprises.

I used to live very close to hear and I took this picture of the Kelpies on the opening day ten years ago. I used to walk my dog here all the time and loved walking along the river.