01/12/2024
The Scenery of the
Dee Book
is now reissued
by the
Deeside Bookshop at Ballater
and is on sale at various outlets in Aberdeen and on Deeside.
Example from my old Deeside Piper work recently added
to the Banchory Heritage Facebook site
Seeing the Aurora Borealis in
Scotland and the UK.
Two Internet sites that will help you to see
displays:
www.spaceweather.com
Site gives best predictive
information about Solar activity and likely storms affecting the Earth.
I would recommend looking at the Aurora Photo
Gallery and seeing fantastic photographs of Aurora displays around the
world, usually happening every night.
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk
Alert service for the AuroraWatch
advising of storms happening from data source currently using a magnetometer source
from Sumburgh.
Interesting article in
wheretraveler.com about seeing
and photographing Aurora displays:
http://www.wheretraveler.com/alaska/take-great-photograph-northern-lights
Where to see and purchase my
photographs
My own online library is at
Crooktree.com
.
A selection of my Scottish and Aurora photographs
are also on the
Collections Library where they are available for purchase.
Dunnottar Castle
Noctilucent Clouds-meteor dust in the upper
atmosphere-a rare summer event.
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Born in Torphins with my early schooling in Banchory
I later returned to Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire
in 1974, after 2 years in Australia and then studying an HND in Business Studies at
Cambridge College of Arts and Technology and a DMS at Dundee Tech. I lived
in Banchory until 1990 before moving to Crooktree at Kincardine O'Neil.
In 1986, after being made redundant from the Oil
Industry I established myself as a freelance
photographer and began compiling an
extensive collection of my photographs North East
Scotland landscape photographs after I established my freelance
photography business. I was a BAPLA registered
photo-library from 1990
- 2010.
Apart from my landscape interests for a few years I was
the Deeside Piper photographer and covered many events for the NTS in
Grampian for 10 years. I also did general commercial and Fine Art
photography and contributed to many publications and books.
My
accumulated Photography Collection of film stock, B&W negatives from 1985
and my digital archive from 2003 along with all my published work has been
donated to the Aberdeenshire Museum's Service for their Archives as of
August 2022.
I
formally retired from a commercial photography career as of 30th
September, 2022 after 36 years.
Jim at Crooktree
HNC in Photography
Formerly an Associate
Member of
the Master Photographer's Association and Royal Photographic Society. I
also
taught traditional photography classes at Aberdeen College for their
Outreach Programme as well as Digital Photography evening classes at
Aboyne Community Centre. I
tutored two week-long residential workshops at Balmoral Castle and day
courses at Crathes Castle.
2024 AURORA. A huge display occurred on the 10th
October and was seen widely and as far south as Jersey!!. Definitely time to watch AuroraWatch and Spaceweather-see
the Aurora Photo Gallery.
More
images
of Auroras are on Crooktree.com and
see the Links Aurora Photography article for useful information and links.
Aurora activity is currently increasing as the Solar
Cycle climbing towards Maximum again and there were several good displays
during 2024 although some were denied because of cloud
Tomnaverie Stone Circle near Tarland
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© All photographs used to illustrate this Website are my Copyright.
Only
photographs in the various Galleries can
be enlarged by double-clicking them.
None of the photographs can be
reproduced for commercial purposes but I am delighted for them to
be used for
personal use.
If you
require higher quality versions then please contact me at any of the ways
shown below.
Kevin has stopped doing his calendars
so another part of my old photography life gone-many enjoyable days from
1986 onwards fulfilling my love of landscape photography and providing
photos to many calendars from Papersky, P&J, Evening Express, Ian Ritchie
to Kevin's
Young fawn on Ord Fundlie
Aurora
Corona Photos 2024
These photos were taken on the 10th October, 2024 an
captured a full Corona display above Crooktree-the strongest display I
have seen since 2004.
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