Last month I delivered some workshops to groups of teenagers in two Cumbernauld schools on the subject of creative nature photography. Encouraging myself and others to see the beauty of nature around us in quirky and unique ways is something that I am drawn to and really enjoy doing. Photography is a great tool for initiating this engagement but I am becoming increasingly aware that there is something more inherent within us that has a need for the kind of connections that ph

Today I challenged myself to find the colours of the rainbow in the flora around me. Setting off late afternoon, I expected the hardest colours to find would be indigo and red... and was right and wrong. Surprisingly, red occurred fairly regularly, mainly in close-up details such as stems and young leaves, although I also found a red flower. Aside from indigo, the colour I had most trouble with was orange. The fantastic thing about focusing on colours though, is you begin to

I am taking part in The Wildlife Trust’s 30 Days Wild challenge – doing something wild every day for the month of June – and will be blogging about my experiences along the way. Today is day one, but owing to a busy couple of weeks, I have begun in a slightly disorganised fashion. However, nature had a real treat up her sleeve for me this morning. Due to helping some friends out over in Glasgow at the weekend, I was up at the crack of dawn to catch the bus back across to Edin