Recent pictures

I had visited this tree in the daytime. I knew that I had to come back and find it at night. It was an adventure to find it and then find my way back

This old ruined house stands in the Ochil hills and was the house for Jerah Farm. It now lies long abandoned.

I often walk my local hills at night. This picture was taken from Ben Buck looking North. It's about a 6 mile (9km) circular walk and 2000ft (600m) climb. It was very cold when I took this. When I descended back into the valley it felt lovely and warm, even though my car had ice on the windscreen!

I travelled here specifically for the dark skies. Unfortunately the clouds conspired against me in this direction and were illuminated by the lights from a town many miles away. Nevertheless, I was fairly pleased with this.

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.