Taken North of Balmaha, on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond last Wednesday. Balmaha and Loch Lomond are quickly becoming one of my favourite places to photograph.

Most of our evening was spent stalking some deer that we stumbled upon in the forest. I stupidly had came with only a 20mm and 50mm prime lenses, however my friend had a 300mm zoom, and is certain to have some excellent shots. I won’t make that mistake again!

He’s started letting the dog play with it again though, and recently he’s realised if he gives me the ball I’ll throw it down the garden for him.

Ironically, I have tried to train Bailey to “fetch” for years and years, but he always prefers to hang on to the ball… it took me about 20 minutes to “train” Jacob.

When I visited here on Sunday there were a swarm of skateboard “dudes” tearing the place up. Managed to get a few decent photos of them too, perhaps for another time.

Last year I had the pleasure of photographing a wedding on the Tall Ship Glenlee. Obviously it’s not terribly roomy inside, and the light isn’t great, however I managed to do alright.

This was one of these shots that I knew what I wanted to achieve before I even took the shot. I like working in that way, as it gives a singular focus about the task in hand, and you know when you’ve got the right shot and can pack up

It was where I went 10 years ago when I was first messing around with a tripod and trying out long exposure night photography. There’s so many nice angles to things that you can almost guarantee a decent pic by the end of the night.

Wandering around, it felt a bit like catching up with an old friend. Some things have changed but mostly it’s the same as it was, and still a cracking place to take some pics.

I also mucked around with a panorama, which is something I’ve been wanting to try out. Unsure if I’ll upload that one or not!

Sometimes I forget about a few pics, then rediscover them when am browsing through my library. This is just a wee silly shot, and I’ve experimented with some Aperture vignetting / defocussing in order to give a more rustic feel.

Anyway, one of the things we were keen to do was try to establish some sort of routine with baby Jacob, who has been driving us demented by sleeping all day and playing all night.

We achieved some level of success, and he now seems to regularly wake up at 6:30am.  This also coincided with sunrise over the beach at Lamlash, which looked over to Holy Isle in Lamlash Bay.

I managed to take a fair few sunrise shots whilst over, however this is perhaps my favourite, which is the distillation of a few different ideas that I had, over several mornings sunrises

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As I had a spare hour or two last night, I thought it’d be good to pop down and take a shot… I was really tired, but it was good to get out again even just for an hour or two.  Would have preferred for there to be some nasty storm clouds in the sky, however I can’t pick the evenings quite so easily any more