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Aurora over Scotland (9 files)

Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights displays photographed taken over Aberdeeshire in Scotland since 1989 covering some 350 events with arc, rays, coronas with a wide rnage of shapes and colours

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617120jhp
Scotland Aurora Borealis maximum bright strong display winter hills Boxing Day December Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617119jhp
Scotland Aurora Borealis Boxing Day December rays bright Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617118jhp
Scottish Aurora Borealis display Boxing Day west rays Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, multiple, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617117jhp
Scotland Aurora Borealis moving ray red headlights Boxing Day Aberdeenshire December Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617115jhp
Scotland Northern Lights multiple rays arc red yellow display 1989 Boxing Day December Cairn O’Mount taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617114jhp
Scotland Aurora Borealis several rays moving arc hill starting display Boxing Day December Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617113jhp
Scottish Aurora Borealis early stage arc active Cairn O'Mount rays display Boxing Day December 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora Cairn O Mount au617111jhp
Scotland Aurora Borealis arc start display Aberdeenshire Jim Henderson Photograph Boxing Day December Cairn O’Mount 1989 taken from just below the Cairn O’Mount on its North face and which looks northwards towards Deeside. This photo is from the fourth Aurora Display I photographed after my first one in September and the arc started to develop from 22.00 hrs UT onwards. I felt that the summit of the Cairn would be a good vantage point and offer uncluttered views northwards. It was a good light pollution free viewpoint but apart from an occasional passing car, headlights a headache during an exposure, I soon realised that it was along way to go and of course further south of and way from any displays. In some of the photos there are two small lights on the horizon which I reckoned were from a farm on the Hill of Fare several miles to the north. The single dark pole is a snow pole and on the side of the nearby hillside are snow fences. This display was a classic in terms of an Arc, waxing and waning until it reached a point of no return when single and then multiple burst upwards from the arc as well as moving quite rapidly from right to left; East to West. Generally the colour was a pale whitish/yellow colour with a hint of red in some of the rays.

The project to photograph an Aurora came after a missed opportunity earlier in the year in March with what became known as the Big Aurora, a full Corona over Deeside. I had got the idea of trying to photograph a display following on from my success in 1986 of capturing Halley’s Comet thanks to the support of the Astronomy Ian Shepherd at the Edinburgh Observatory. I had heard about the Big Aurora but had missed the display buried away in my darkroom processing B&W photos for the local newspaper. Ian suggested I contact John MacNicol, President of the Aberdeen Astronomy Society and he eventually tipped me off about the first display I saw. Later tips helped until I started to park at a favourite viewpoint every clear night over the forthcoming years, the days before the Internet, and just watch the night sky.

I took Fuji RHP 400asa and RSP 11, rated at 1600ASA, the fastest available at the time in 35mm slide film of which this photo is an example and I tried both as well as bracketing exposures around the 20 second mark based on my experiences with photographing the Comet and aware that exposures much longer than that incurred the affect of star trail so instead of sharp dots for stars they became lines. Instead of a telephoto lens as per the Comet, for Aurora I used my widest lens, a Nikkor 28mm with a f2.8 widest aperture. Push processing the slide film at the Fuji lab by two stops to the equivalent of 1600asa I found that an exposure around 20 second eventually gave the best results for best colour saturation and exposure and giving the maximum control of grain without it appearing washed out from underexposure. This basic arrangement eventually worked best when I moved to a DSLR Fuji S2 in 2003 with an ISO of 1600 giving comparable results to the ASA equivalent and the noise factor was akin to the grain of slide film. As I shot my general landscape work using Fuji I stayed with it for the Aurora although Kodak film was acceptable in quality and results. I felt that the Fuji film handled the reds and greens better anyway and these are in practice the primary colours of Aurora displays when oxygen is excited by the incoming electrons.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Glen, Dye, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Heatheryhaugh, Clachnaben, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, Northern, Lights, Merry Dancers, landscape, photos, photographs, sunspots, solar, flares, CME, electrons, photons, storms, energy, sun, stars, oxygen, gas, Van, Allen, belt, ionosphere, flares, space, molecules, magnetic, disturbance, magnetometers, belts, radiation, purple, red, green, yellow, pink, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, colours, colors, moon, whirls, celestial, clouds, nature, dark, nights, night-time, forest, 1989, September, December, Boxing, Day, slide, film, Fuji, RHP, RSP11, 400asa, 1600asa, 35mm, time, exposure, Nikon, FM2, wide, angle, lens, 28mm, 24mm, f2.8, scanned, scan, earliest, first, captured

Aurora over Deeside rty1917jhp
Aurora display Scotland autumn moonlight green rays clouds Royal Deeside taken on the 1st October 2012 at Crooktree, 25 miles west of Aberdeen is the first display I have seen this back quarter and probably the best display now photographed since end of the previous Solar Cycle in 2006. This photograph was taken with a Nikon D700 full frame DSLR using a 28mm Nikkor f2.8 lens and ISO settings of 3200 which allows for much shorter exposure circa 6 sec average times with hopefully more accurate recordings of these moving events. The light conditions were not perfect as the background light was from the full moon but dispels any myths that Aurora’s cannot be seen under such conditions.
Taken in the garden looking westwards as activity starts behind clouds at 00.21.10hrs UT [01.21.10BST] with an exposure of 10 secs. The rocks and broom in the foreground are lit by the full moon as is the hillside in the distance.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, British, North, Northern, East, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Deeside, Torphins, Aurora, Borealis, Arc, Rays, bright, patches, Northern, Lights, Merry, Dancers, landscape, CME, solar, night, sky, stars, oxygen, gas, molecules, magnetic, green, yellow, colourful, colorful, colours, colors, celestial, night, morning, October, 2012, autumn, moonlight, full, moon

Scotland > Aberdeenshire (2 files)

This gallery includes rural, scenic and landscape subjects of the Shire, including Kincardineshire, Mearns, Garioch, Buchan Strathbogie and Mar.

Autumnal Corgaff Panorama VS3158JHP
Corgarff Castle Cockbridge Autumn Lecht Viewpoint Aberdeenshire Scotland fortified fort just off the A939 Ballater/Tomintoul road with a commanding position over this strategically important route to the north and viewed from the Lecht road at a viewpoint after a steep climb round hairpin corners.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Cockbridge, Corgarff, Castle, Lecht, layby, viewpoint, landscape, military, fort, autumn, autumnal, larches, golden, snow, showers, hillside

Autumn Above Corgarff VS3167JHP
Corgarff Castle Cockbridge Autumn Lecht Viewpoint Aberdeenshire Scotland fortified fort just off the A939 Ballater/Tomintoul road with a commanding position over this strategically important route to the north and viewed from the Lecht road at a viewpoint after a steep climb round hairpin corners.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Cockbridge, Corgarff, Castle, Lecht, layby, viewpoint, landscape, military, fort, autumn, autumnal, larches, golden, snow, showers, hillside

Scotland > Clouds, Sunsets, Dawns and Weather (10 files)

The gallery has images of weather related subjects from clouds to dawns and sunrises, NLC or noctilucent clouds nights, moon to sun rings, rainbows, double rainbows, meteors, shooting stars, Perseids. The range of clouds includes cirrus, storm clouds, white puffy fair weather clouds, monster cloud formations, haar, sun beams, lenticular, mama, a wide range of different meteorological structures and types.

Double-Rainbow-over-Barley-wsc6474jhp
Rainbow double colourful dramatic sky clouds field Torphins Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo autumn afternoon sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This summer double rainbow occurred on the late afternoon of 29th August, 2023 at 17.57BST from a rain shower passing over. Camera used was a Nikon D700 FX body with 16-35mm zoom lens at 16mm focal length, ISO 200 at f11 aperture with 1/320sec exposure. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside by Crooktree farm track north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, summer, afternoon, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2023, 29th, August, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, FX, 16-35 AF-S ED lens, zoom, photograph, photo

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6405jhp
Deeside double rainbow spring colourful dramatic clouds fields hills Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6398jhp
Double rainbow Scottish strong light panorama colourful dramatic dark sky clouds field Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6396jhp
Double rainbow colourful dramatic rich colours birch trees fields Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6391jhp
Double rainbow colourful dramatic bright bands stone sky clouds field Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo, upright

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6383jhp
Double rainbow colours dramatic dark sky clouds field Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo

Deeside-Double-Rainbow-qax6380jhp
Double rainbow colourful dramatic dark sky clouds field Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland weather photo spring evening sunlight and although not perhaps calendar material are none the less great photography subjects. This spring rainbow occurred on the evening of the 1st May 2020 from a small rain shower in the distance. The shapes, size and colours make them a subject I enjoy photographing and are a reflection of the great mix of weather and light we have in the North East of Scotland. One big headache is the rain that creates them so lenses have to be kept dry or covered as much as possible as well as the photographer. However on this occasion the rain shower was in the distance so no problems with rain on the camera lens in this instance. This was taken from Ord Fundlie hillside north of Kincardine O’Neil, looking across to the Hill of Fare and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Glassel, Hill, Fare, Craigmyle, Ord Fundlie, hillside, landscape, rainbow, double, colours, colors, clouds, bands, prism, unusual, shapes, weather, meteorological, phenomena, cumulus, countryside, nature, fields, grass, spring, evening, silver, birch, trees, sun, sunshine, sunny, rain, raining, shower, white, brown, grey, curved, bend, shapes, height, dramatic, moody, 2020, 1st, May, Nikon, DSLR, digital, camera, D700, photograph, photo, upright

Craigmyle Evening bnm4567jhp
Dramatic evening clouds hillside sunshine sunlit Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland summer photo taken towards Torphins and the Hill of Fare above Craigmyle looking eastwards towards Pitmedden about 25 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Torphins, Learney, hill, summer, evening, landscape, clouds, shapes, weather, phenomena, cumulus, vertical, fibrous, filaments, cumulonimbus, countryside, nature, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, pink, orange, brown, blue, sky, beautiful, shapes, scale, size, height, 2016, August, DSLR, Nikon, D700, digital, photo, photograph

Deeside Evening Cloud vbn0685jhp
Deeside Scottish autumn evening clouds Hill Fare lifting clearing Aberdeenshire after rainy day near Torphins is some 25 miles west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland. This view is towards Craigmyle on the western end of the Hill of Fare taken from Ord Fundlie and cloud clearing the hillside catches early autumn sunhsine.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Hill, Fare, Torphins, Ord, Fundlie, sunset, evening, setting, sun, rays, beams, Craigmyle, landscape, fiery, red, clouds, shapes, patterns, beautiful, artistic, pastel, delicate, impressionist, colours, colors, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, golden, bronze, yellow, grey, weather, meteorological, trees, silhouette, hilline, September, 2015, autumn

Clouds over Deeside qwe7931jhp
Summer Hill Fare hillside Kerloch clouds billowing white sunshine Deeside south Aberdeenshire panorama taken from this huge hill area standing north of Banchory and extending from Echt in the east to Torphins in the west and part of Dunecht Estates on Royal Deeside to the west of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire and here in the distance is the outline of Kerloch Hill south of Banchory.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Banchory, Raemoir, Hill, Fare, Kerloch, Banchory, landscape, southwards, Deeside, Royal, countryside, rural, Nature, trees, common, pine, summer, clouds, white, billowing, sunlit, sunshine, Estate, panorama, high, vista, moorland

Scotland > Deeside Towns and Villages (9 files)

Photos of the main towns and villages along the River Dee from Banchory westwards to Braemar with villages bordering the north and south sides of the river such as Torphins and Tarland to Strachan on the south.

Morrone Woods xvv1080jhp
Braemar Morrone walk track birch trees hills hills Quoich Scottish June summer evening near where it overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone Birkwood Nature Reserve are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees here looking northwards to Quoich with hills of Carn na Drochaide, Carn Dearg and carn na Criche off to the right.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1077jhp
Braemar Village Morrone silver birch hills Deeside fence Quoich Scotland overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone Birkwood Nature Reserve are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees here looking northwards to Quoich with hills of Carn na Drochaide, Carn Dearg and carn na Criche off to the right.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1070jhp
Braemar Morrone silver birch tree hills clouds summer Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, upright, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1068jhp
Braemar Morrone silver birch tree grass sky summer hills Royal Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1058jhp
Morrone woodland roe deer grazing glade sunlit summer Aberdeenshire Scottish overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1056jhp
Braemar Morrone silver birch trees moorland hill Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, upright, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1055jhp
Morrone silver birch trees twisted Deeside Scotland Jim Henderson Photograph overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1054jhp
Morrone silver birch trees silhouette backlit shadows Deeside Scottish summer overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Morrone Woods xvv1053jhp
Braemar Village Morrone silver birch hills track summer walk Deeside Scotland overlooks the River Dee and village is a popular base for hill walking in Cairngorms as well as skiing at nearby Glenshee on the road to Perth. Some signed walks start from the carpark at the top of Chapel Brae, which starts by the entrance to the Royal Highland Gathering Park and the main track leads to the Morrone marker with lovely views over the River Dee towards the west up past Mar Lodge to the Linn of Dee and northwards to the Cairngorms. The lower slops of Morrone are famous for the extensive covering of silver birch trees.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Braemar, highview, Morrone, hillside, tree, covered, forest, hills, track, marker, walks, Cairngorms, hills, landscape, westwards, summer, June, 2010, trees, silver, birch, roe, deer, grazing, DSLR, D700, Digital

Scotland > Forestry & Farming (6 files)

This gallery will have photography relating to the working areas of Aberdeenshire covering farming and forestry. Includes areas of forestry where there is public access for walks such as The Deeside Way and also photographs of forest harvesting, tree cutting, and stacked logs ready for transport to the local sawmills.

Forest Tree Fall qwe4706jhp
Wind lightning damage shattered tree forest fir hillside Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland here on the edge of stand of Douglas Firs on the north face of Ord Fundlie between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Royal Deeside west of Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardine, O’Neil, Royal Deeside, Ord, Fundlie, hill, lightning, wind, gales, damage, shattered, trunk, split, broken, fallen, Douglas, Fir, felled, forestry, land, Nature, natural, summer, upright

Forest Tree Fall qwe4704jhp
Wind lightning damage shattered tree trunk summer hillside Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland here on the edge of stand of Douglas Firs on the north face of Ord Fundlie between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Royal Deeside west of Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardine, O’Neil, Royal Deeside, Ord, Fundlie, hill, lightning, wind, gales, damage, shattered, broken, fallen, Douglas, Fir, felled, forestry, land, Nature, natural, summer, upright

Forest Tree Fall qwe4699jhp
Wind lightning damage shattered tree trunk hillside Deeside Aberdeenshire Scottish photo here on the edge of stand of Douglas Firs on the north face of Ord Fundlie between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Royal Deeside west of Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardine, O’Neil, Royal Deeside, Ord, Fundlie, hill, lightning, wind, gales, damage, shattered, broken, fallen, Douglas, Fir, felled, forestry, land, Nature, natural, summer, landscape

Forest Large Tree qwe4709jhp
Douglas Firs thinned large tree trunk hillside Deeside Aberdeenshire Scottish here on the edge of stand of Douglas Firs on the north face of Ord Fundlie between Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins on Royal Deeside west of Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardine, O’Neil, Royal Deeside, Ord, Fundlie, hill, hillside, dappled, Douglas, Fir, thinned, forestry, land, Nature, natural, summer, upright, landscape

Silver Birch qwe4136jhp
Summer evening sunshine silver birch tree leaves bark Deeside Scotland taken on Ord Fundlie hillside near Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Kincardine O’Neil, Ord, Fundlie, forest, woodland, silver, birch, evening, summer, golden, sunshine, leaves, tree, forestry, Nature, upright, shapes, texture, patterns

Silver Birch qwe4133jhp
Scottish summer evening sunshine silver birch tree leaves bark Deeside photo taken on Ord Fundlie hillside near Kincardine O’Neil and Torphins.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Kincardine O’Neil, Ord, Fundlie, forest, woodland, silver, birch, evening, summer, golden, sunshine, leaves, tree, forestry, Nature, landscape, shapes, texture, patterns

Scotland > Historic Properties (3 files)

This gallery has photographs of Scottish Castles and Fortresses, Stately Homes and Gardens, old churches or kirks and includes most of the following:
Auchindoir Church; Auchindoun Castle; Balmoral Castle; Balvenie Castle; Bass of Inverurie; Bellabeg Motte; Braemar Castle; Brodie Castle; Castle Fraser; Corgarff Castle; Corrichie Monument; Corse O’Neil Castle; Craigellachie Bridge; Crathes Castle; Crathie Kirk; Dalgetie Castle; Deer Abbey; Drum Castle; Duff House; Duffus Castle; Dunnideer; Dunnottar Castle; Elgin Cathedral; Esslemont Castle; Fasque House; Fetternear House; Findlater; Fordyce; Fyvie Castle; Gairnshiel Bridge; Glenbuchat Castle; Haddo House; Hallforest Castle; Huntly Castle; Inchdrewer Castle; Invercauld Bridge O’Dee; Kildrummy Castle; Kincardine O’Neil Kirk; Kindrochit Castle; Kinloss Abbey; Kinneff Church; Knock Castle; Leith Hall; Mar Lodge; Marnoch Kirkyard; Mid Mar Kirk; Monymusk Kirk; Peel of Lumphanan; Pitmedden Gardens; Pluscarden Priory or Abbey; Ruthven Barracks; Slains Castle; Tolquhon Castle; Tullich Kirk; Fort George;

Corgarff Castle Panorama VS2673JHP
Corgarff Castle Cockbridge roadside view Aberdeenshire Historic Scotland fortified fort just off the A939 Ballater/Tomintoul road with a commanding position over this strategically important route to the north. The core tower was built in 1537 and the most striking star-shaped curtain wall dates from 1748 when occupied by the Hanoverian troops tracking down Jacobite rebels. Its final historical importance was during the anti-whisky smuggling duties around the late 1820. Now restored and with interesting exhibits from those last days of occupation.

As this is a Historic Scotland property the photograph should be used for editorial, scenic or tourist related use. The castle carpark is at the bottom of steepish hill with a walk of several hundred yards from the entrance and ticket office situated in the castle itself. It is open for most of the summer and requires an entrance fee to be paid.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Corgarff, Castle, Lecht, landscape, roadside, panorama, hillside, desolate, military, fort, barracks, tower, house, flanking, pavilions, star-shaped, curtain, defensive, wall, musket, loops

Craigievar Hillside Colours xvv3589jhp
Craigievar Castle Bennachie Hill High Viewpoint Autumn Beech Trees in Aberdeenshire Mar district is a National Trust for Scotland property is situated about 6 miles south of Alford A980 and is open to the public from March to end of August although closed during 2008/9 for major renovation on the exterior it is open again as of 2010. Grounds are normally open all year round.
Example of the best in Scottish Baronial architecture, dating from 1626, and is unspoiled since being relinquished to the NTS by the Forbes-Sempill family.
Any of my photographs are for scenic/tourist use only and cannot be used for product endorsement without the explicit permission of the NTS. Please contact their Edinburgh Head Office at Wemyss House, 28 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4ET.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Grampian, Mar, Craigievar Castle, fort, castle, landscape, NTS, National Trust, Bennachie, mountain, tower, turrets, tree, trees, beech, countryside, autumn, colours, brown, hillside, high, view

Corgarff Castle Scotland VS2676JHP
Corgarff Castle Hillside Moorland Telephoto Cockbridge Roadside Scotland Aberdeenshire on the southern approach to Cockbridge where it is located just off the A939 Ballater/Tomintoul road with a commanding position over this strategically important route to the north. The core tower was built in 1537 and the most striking star-shaped curtain wall dates from 1748 when occupied by the Hanoverian troops tracking down Jacobite rebels. Its final historical importance was during the anti-whisky smuggling duties around the late 1820. Now restored and with interesting exhibits from those last days of occupation.

As this is a Historic Scotland property the photograph should be used for editorial, scenic or tourist related use. The castle carpark is at the bottom of steepish hill with a walk of several hundred yards from the entrance and ticket office situated in the castle itself. It is open for most of the summer and requires an entrance fee to be paid.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Corgarff, Castle, Lecht, Dufftown, upright, military, fort, soldiers, Government, troops, rebellions, barracks, strategic, smuggling, whisky, illicit, clans, feuds, Forbes, Gordon, burnt, abandoned, tower, house, flanking, pavilions, star-shaped, curtain, defensive, wall, musket, loops, abandoned, restored, historic, exhibitions, skiing, heather, moorland, sheep, rocky, desolate, barren, grass, rugged, windswept

Scotland > Other Scotland (14 files)

Photographs taken in the mid 90's mainly for the AA Publishing & Ordnance Survey Highland and Islands Guide book using transparency film covering the Highlands of Scotland from Inverness, northwards through Easter Ross to Wick and Thurso, along the Northern Coast, down the West Coast, including the Islands of Skye and Mull. Other material included was gathered for other AA Publishing Guides including Shetland, Pitlochry and Tayside. New photographs are now included from 2012 book commission travels in Angus, Perth, Kinross, Trossachs and Tayside.

Pass of Leny by Anie qwe9714jhp
Scottish Trossachs Pass Leny River reeds water Ben Vane dyke view taken in late summer near Anie from the A84 Kilmahog to Lochearnhead Killin road adjacent to the slopes of Ben Ledi, at 879metres/2884ft, a mountain classified as a Corbett, this stretch is the River Leny or Gargh Usige, or rough water as it is sometimes called, exits Loch Lubnaig in this marshy section before entering the Pass of Leny with its famous Falls and heading eastwards towards the sea through Callander, joining the River Teith and flowing into the Firth of Forth.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Ben, Ledi, Vane, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, landscape, trees, sunshine, hillside, Pass, Leny, Kilmahog, Callander, A84, road, river, marsh, reeds, Gargh, Usige, rough, water, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

Pass of Leny by Anie qwe9711jhp
Scotland Ben Vane Pass Leny River Rosebay Willowherb Anie Kilmahog roadside views taken in late summer near Anie from the A84 Kilmahog to Lochearnhead Killin road. Under the slopes of Ben Ledi, at 879metres/2884ft, a mountain classified as a Corbett, this stretch is the River Leny or Gargh Usige, or rough water as it is sometimes called, exits Loch Lubnaig in this marshy section before entering the Pass of Leny with its famous Falls and heading eastwards towards the sea through Callander, joining the River Teith and flowing into the Firth of Forth.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Ben, Ledi, Vane, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers, upright, trees, sunshine, hillside, Pass, Leny, Kilmahog, Callander, A84, road, river, marsh, reeds, Gargh, Usige, rough, water

Pass of Leny by Anie qwe9708jhp
Scottish Pass Leny River Gargh Usige Ledi Van Anie Trossachs roadside views taken in late summer near Anie from the A84 Kilmahog to Lochearnhead Killin road adjacent to the slopes of Ben Ledi, at 879metres/2884ft, a mountain classified as a Corbett, this stretch is the River Leny or Gargh Usige, or rough water as it is sometimes called, exits Loch Lubnaig in this marshy section before entering the Pass of Leny with its famous Falls and heading eastwards towards the sea through Callander, joining the River Teith and flowing into the Firth of Forth.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Ben, Ledi, Vane, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, landscape, trees, sunshine, hillside, Pass, Leny, Kilmahog, Callander, A84, road, river, marsh, reeds, Gargh, Usige, rough, water, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

Pass of Leny by Anie qwe9707jhp
Scotland Pass Leny River marsh reeds water Anie Ben Vane roadside view taken in late summer near Anie from the A84 Kilmahog to Lochearnhead Killin road adjacent to the slopes of Ben Ledi, at 879metres/2884ft, a mountain classified as a Corbett, this stretch is the River Leny or Gargh Usige, or rough water as it is sometimes called, exits Loch Lubnaig in this marshy section before entering the Pass of Leny with its famous Falls and heading eastwards towards the sea through Callander, joining the River Teith and flowing into the Firth of Forth.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Ben, Ledi, Vane, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, upright, trees, sunshine, hillside, Pass, Leny, Kilmahog, Callander, A84, road, river, marsh, reeds, Gargh, Usige, rough, water, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

Pass of Leny fm Bochastle qwe9964jhp
Scotland Beinn Each mountains Bochastle forest walk Pass Leny Anie view taken in late summer View from a Forestry Commission track and possibly opned up recently as evidence of clear felling and young plantation. Signed as Bochastle just outside Kilmahog on the A821 road to Aberfolye and gives a view to Loch Lubnaig above the Pass of Leny. Is it approximately a 30 minute walk from the carpark to this point.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, Beinn, Each, Anie, upright, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Leny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road, Vorlich

Pass of Leny fm Bochastle qwe9960jhp
Scotland Ben Ledi Loch Lubnaig Bochastle forest walk Pass Leny views taken in late summer from a Forestry Commission track and possibly opened up recently as evidence of clear felling and young plantation. Signed as Bochastle just outside Kilmahog on the A821 road to Aberfolye and gives a view to Loch Lubnaig above the Pass of Leny. Is it approximately a 30 minute walk from the carpark to this point.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, landscape, Anie, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Leny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road

Pass of Leny fm Bochastle qwe9952jhp
Scottish Trossachs Bochastle forest walk Pass Leny Beinn Each heather view taken in late summer beneath Ben Ledi View from a Forestry Commission track and possibly opened up recently as evidence of clear felling and young plantation. Signed as Bochastle just outside Kilmahog on the A821 road to Aberfolye and gives a view to Loch Lubnaig above the Pass of Leny. Is it approximately a 30 minute walk from the carpark to this point.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, Loch, Lubnaig, forest, walk, summer, heather, flowering, purple, upright, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Leny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road

Ben Ledi fm Leannach qwe9736jhp
Scottish Ben Ledi Leannach Achray forest silver birch summer light views taken on late summer afternoon near the carpark and entrance to the more extensive Three Lochs walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark on the A821 Aberfoyle Road to Kilmahog road, after the Trossachs turn off for loch Katrine, in the Achray Forest. It offers distant views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett over extensive forest, cleared, recently planted and mature here taken from the Leannach entrance to the Three Lochs drive which offers views of the Loch’s of Drunkie, Venachar and Achray.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Leannach, Achray, forest, walk, summer, upright, afternoon, light, trees, young, mature, layers, silver, birch, bracken, natural, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road, Drunkie, Venachar, Lochs, Loch, moody, clouds

Ben Ledi fm Leannach qwe9726jhp
Scotland Ben Ledi Corbett mountain Leannach forest walk Aberfoyle Achray views taken in late summer at the carpark and entrance to this more extensive Three Lochs walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark on the A821 Aberfoyle Road to Kilmahog road, after the Trossachs turn off for loch Katrine, in the Achray Forest. It offers distant views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett over extensive forest, cleared, recently planted and mature here taken from the Leannach entrance to the Three Lochs drive which offers views of the Loch’s of Drunkie, Venachar and Achray.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Leannach, Achray, forest, walk, summer, landscape, afternoon, light, trees, young, mature, layers, silver, birch, natural, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road, Drunkie, Venachar, Lochs, Loch, moody, clouds

Ben Ledi fm Bochastle qwe9989jhp
Scotland Ben Ledi Corbett Bochastle forest view trees sunlight clouds views taken in late summer this fairly easy walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark at Bochastle near Lade Inn on the Aberfoyle Road from Kilmahog. It offers good views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett and pushing on further along the forest road, above the Pass of Lenny, offers excellent views towards the west and Loch Lubnaig.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, forest, walk, summer, landscape, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Lenny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road

Ben Ledi fm Bochastle qwe9988jhp
Scotland Ben Ledi Corbett mountain Bochastle forest walk near carpark view taken in late summer this fairly easy walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark at Bochastle near Lade Inn on the Aberfoyle Road from Kilmahog. It offers good views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett and pushing on further along the forest road, above the Pass of Lenny, offers excellent views towards the west and Loch Lubnaig.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, forest, track, road, walk, summer, landscape, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Lenny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road

Ben Ledi fm Bochastle qwe9902jhp
Scottish Trossachs Ben Ledi mountain Bochastle forest walk dappled light view taken in late summer this fairly easy walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark at Bochastle near Lade Inn on the Aberfoyle Road from Kilmahog. It offers good views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett and pushing on further along the forest road, above the Pass of Lenny, offers excellent views towards the west and Loch Lubnaig.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Bochastle, forest, walk, summer, landscape, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Pass, Lenny, Lade, Inn, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road

Ben Ledi fm Aberfolye Road qwe9750jhp
Ben Ledi Corbett mountain layby Achray forest roadside view summer trees views taken in late summer from a layby on the roadside near the Three Lochs walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark on the A821 Aberfoyle Road to Kilmahog road, after the Trossachs turn off for loch Katrine, in the Achray Forest. It offers distant views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett over extensive forest, cleared, recently planted and mature here taken from the Leannach entrance to the Three Lochs drive which offers views of the Loch’s of Drunkie, Venachar and Achray.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Leannach, Achray, forest, walk, summer, landscape, layby, roadside, view, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road, Drunkie, Venachar, Lochs, Loch

Ben Ledi fm Aberfolye Road qwe9747jhp
Scotland Ben Ledi Corbett mountain layby forest Aberfoyle road Achray views taken in late summer from a layby on the roadside near the Three Lochs walk from a Forest Enterprise carpark on the A821 Aberfoyle Road to Kilmahog road, after the Trossachs turn off for loch Katrine, in the Achray Forest. It offers distant views of Ben Ledi, 879metres/2884ft, classified as a Corbett over extensive forest, cleared, recently planted and mature here taken from the Leannach entrance to the Three Lochs drive which offers views of the Loch’s of Drunkie, Venachar and Achray.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Trossachs, Tayside, Ben, Ledi, Leannach, Achray, forest, walk, summer, layby, upright, trees, sunshine, Corbett, hillside, Kilmahog, Callander, Aberfoyle, road, Drunkie, Venachar, Lochs, Loch

Scotland > Rivers, Glens & Lochs (7 files)

The gallery has photographs of Scottish lochs, glens and pictures associated directly with particular rivers in Scotland such as the River Dee, Don, Feugh, Urie, Deveron, Tanar, Dye, and Glen of Dee, Glen Muick and Glenbuchat.

Durris Deeside View fgh1801jhp
Durris view Deeside Scotland Jim Henderson summer photo Morven rosebay willowherb this hillside offers views to Upper Deeside from a dead end back road to Monthammock off the Denside of Durris road near Nibbetstane at the fork to Hilton Farm. This is rural Deeside east of Banchory, seen on the left, on the south of the River Dee with Morven Hill outline in the centre horizon.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Durris, Nibbetstane, Hilton, Scolty, Banchory, hill, westwards, Deeside, views, panorama, forest, Park, Royal Deeside, upper, Hill, fare, Morven, upright, farming, fields, countryside, rural, trees, west, summer, colours, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

Durris Deeside View fgh1799jhp
Durris hills Scolty hill Banchory sunshine Deeside Aberdeenshire Scotland summer westwards this hillside offers views to Upper Deeside from a dead end back road to Monthammock off the Denside of Durris road near Nibbetstane at the fork to Hilton Farm. This is rural Deeside east of Banchory on the south of the River Dee and the hill to the left just beyond the treeline is Scolty with the town of Banchory creeping in at the right. To the left of Scolty away in the distance is Lochnagar.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Durris, Nibbetstane, Hilton, Scolty, Banchory, hill, westwards, Deeside, views, panorama, forest, Park, Royal Deeside, upper, Hill, fare, landscape, farming, fields, countryside, rural, trees, west, summer, colours, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

Durris Deeside View fgh1798jhp
Durris hills Morven panorama sunshine Deeside Aberdeenshire Scottish summer westwards this hillside offers views to Upper Deeside from a dead end back road to Monthammock off the Denside of Durris road near Nibbetstane at the fork to Hilton Farm. This is rural Deeside east of Banchory, in the centre, on the south of the River Dee and the dumpy hill on the right horizon is Morven.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Durris, Nibbetstane, Hilton, Scolty, Banchory, hill, westwards, Deeside, views, panorama, forest, Park, Royal Deeside, upper, Hill, fare, landscape, Morven, farming, fields, countryside, rural, trees, west, summer, colours, rosebay, willowherb, purple, flowers

River Deveron Spring asd7255jhp
River Deveron view valley fields hillside cows spring trees Aberdeenshire Scottish Strathbogie is one of Aberdeenshire’s famous salmon fishing rivers, rising on the slopes of The Buck in the Cabrach and flowing into the Moray Firth at Banff. Here it is photographed on a small back road from Marnoch Bridge to the Milltown of Rothiemay which winds its way high above the river overlooking the Mains of Mayen before it drops to river level at Rothiemay.
Keywords: Scotland, Grampian, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Marnoch, Milltown, Rothiemay, road, River, Deveron, Glen, valley, Strathbogie, spring, bridge, landscape, water, trees, beech, gean, blossom, cattle, Mayen, Mains, house, Woodfold, Wood, Gallow, Hill, upstream, blue, sky, cloudless, bullocks, cows, forest, fields, farmland, grass, green, layby, viewpoint, roadside, wild, flowers

Heather Cloud Feughside VN0820JHP
Forest Birse Heather Hillside Cloud Feughside Summer Aberdeenshire Scottish Royal Deeside on the road between Finzean and to the deadend at the small Birse Church at the entrance to the gates at the end of the public road and near Birse Castle passed by a popular walk across to Glen Tanar.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Feughside, River, Feugh, Birse, Forest, heather, hillside, bracken, rural, landscape, roadside, trees, hills, clouds, countryside

Forest Birse Heather VN0813JHP
Forest Birse Heather Bracken Hillside Feughside Summer Aberdeenshire Scottish Royal Deeside on the road between Finzean and to the deadend at the small Birse Church at the entrance to the gates at the end of the public road and near Birse Castle passed by a popular walk across to Glen Tanar.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Feughside, River, Feugh, Birse, Forest, heather, hillside, bracken, rocky, rural, landscape, roadside, trees, hills, clouds, countryside

Deeside Autumn Birches TO4290299JHP
Autumn Silver Birches Craig Nordie Hillside Roadside Deeside Aberdeenshire Photo near the Inver Hotel on Royal Deeside, between Balmoral and Braemar, on the North Deeside Road west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland. Craig Nordie hill is in the background covered in silver birches near the turn off to Aberarder.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Inver, Balmoral, estate, River Dee, Royal Deeside, upright, Craig Nordie, trees, silver birches, birch, autumn, golden, colours, colors

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