Standing Stones: Clava Cairns, Inverness-shire

 - Bulnarun of Clava - 

“The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness.”
Taken from Wikipedia

The above photograph was taken whilst I was at college in Inverness in 2001.
This was a fantastic period of my life as it introduced me up to the world of darkrooms which – alas – seems to be a dying art these days, what with the world of Photoshop and digitization. I had never realised just how utterly relaxing working in a darkroom could be.
The smell of the chemicals.
The hue of the red light.
It was bliss.
Pure bliss.
This was one of the first photographs I developed just out of the pure satisfaction I received from processing a photo rather than as a piece of coursework, and I was rather proud of it. Dodging and burning and all those sorts of shenanigans is so much more fun to do in a darkroom rather than with a click of a mouse. If you get the chance, try it, you’ll never look back.