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.

The Isle of Berneray (Outer Hebrides)

 
 

Inverness Sunset and Sunrise

These two photos are two of my favourites.

The first Inverness Sunrise was taken one morning through my kitchen window as I was met with one of the most incredible array of colours I’d ever seen light up the sky.

 

The second Inverness Sunset was also taken through a window, this time of a backpacker hostel looking out toward the hill of Craig-Phadrig which is silohetted at the bottom of the photo.

Regular readers of my blog will notice both of these photos have been used in slightly edited forms for the logo. Inverness Sunrise is currently being used for the WordPress version of my blog, whereas Inverness Sunset was used as the logo for my initial Blogspot version of my blog.