A view taken on the edge of Loch Ken after a summer of heavy rain. Loch Ken forms part of the River Dee catchment which is a major producer of hydro power from its source in the mountains and as it descends through a series of lochs down to the sea in South West Scotland.
Another scene from the Brighouse Woods series that was taken on a misty February afternoon ten years ago.
In this shot we are up in the Southern Uplands, in the Galloway Hills in fact, and standing on the edge of Clatteringshaws Loch.
Carlingwark is a pretty loch situated on the edge of the small town of Castle Douglas, Galloway, Scotland. It has a number of small islands, one at least of which form the remains of an ancient crannog that possibly dates from the late Bronze Age. Crannogs were defensive settlements built in rivers or lochs. Several archaeological finds have been retrieved from the loch including a bronze cauldron, sword and pan and two dugout canoes.
Glen Trool is situated in the Southern Uplands, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and this is one of the many mountain burns that cascade down into Loch Trool.
North of Glen Trool is Merrick, and at 2,800 feet it is the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands.
On our return from visiting family at Easter we travelled home via the beautiful Yorkshire Dales on a wet and dreary day after some heavy snow in Sheffield. We always seem to be passing through this wonderful area on our way to somewhere else.
A picture taken using my new phone.
Ross Bay lies on the west side of Kirkcudbright Bay. It is a quiet and isolated spot and is rarely visited despite its close proximity to the small town of Kirkcudbright.
This view from Meikle Ross, looking east across the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay with the small Ross Bay in the foreground, shows Torrs Point in the distance, and is typical of the mellow landscape and coast of Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland.
The square monolith of Threave Castle stands off in the distance on its small island in the middle of the river Dee, so quite what the round tower structure in the foreground is I’m unsure. Perhaps it’s a disguised water tank, or maybe it really is an ancient relic.
I was driving through this part of The Stewartry when I spotted the nearer tower. Without thinking I leaped from the car, climbed over a gate, and ran across the field to frame my shot. When I returned to the car a woman stepped out of her cottage door and asked what I was doing. When I apologised to her she said that I was lucky that the bull wasn’t in the field that day.
Wintertime in Brighouse Woods, and several dozen digital snaps followed by several years of editing gestation, and we have a short series of images of winter in the woods of Dumfries and Galloway.
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