A day to remember.

March 10 2010

Good company, weather to die for and just one or two obliging ptarmigan. Body battered, soul soothed.

You sow and thus reap.

March 5 2010

The wind was looking for a fight this morning and the sky looked ominous. Last week I took a group onto Cairngorm and the weather beat us back - I was expecting no different today. To be honest if I'd been on my own, I wouldn't have gone...but I did...we did...and thanks to Luis, Andrea and Ruben for that.

In worsening conditions verging on white-out, we not only found a small group of ptarmigan but a rather...no, very...obliging Mountain Hare. Sometimes I just love this place to bits!

Sometimes you've just got to do it.

February 12 2010

Some photographers - and I'm one of them - get so wrapped up in projects, outputs, submissions, features, books, tours, blog updating...the list goes on, they forget to do what set them on fire originally - engineering close encounters with wild places and wild creatures.

Today was a day I just had to get out of the office - and what a day! Not a breath of wind on the mountain, light to die for and fresh snow. Thanks to Sam, Chris and an obliging group of ptarmigan for good company.