This year’s RSM field trip to Scotland was rather…er Scottish.
We had both misery and joy as the weather swung between rainy, very rainy, extremely rainy and a few hours of sunshine too! Too bad work took up 16 hours of the day so not exactly a photogenic trip!
For this year’s easter I was lucky enough to spend a few days in the beautiful Rodopi mountains where we also stumbled upon a village feast to celebrate the completion of a recent hotel (more like a small house, thankfully) so 3 villages were gathered together to eat, drink and make merry!
This was my first outing to the Greek-side Struma reservoir of Kirkini known for its large population of Pink and Dalmatian pelicans, Great Blue and Small White herons and a lot of other curious inhabitants.
Not having done much bird photography, we were of course quite pathetic on the first day and scared off half the lake’s population.
Wisened up on the second day we ‘borrowed’ an old wooden boat and rowed into a swampy forest where we got pretty close and shot a lot of keepers
Going to the south of Wales in the middle of November is generally not a good idea, but somehow we had virtually perfect weather.
The mapping area proved to be quite nice and we had some great colourful sunsets pretty much every day!
Wedding trip !
No embarassing wedding photos here, I’ve mostly included ones from the trip up and around the Bordeaux area so there’s stuff from quite a few places including Monte Carlo, Venice (not quite as glamourous as some imagine) and St Emillion- it’s a tough job, but someone has to do it!
New year’s celebrations at Zavrachiza in the Rila mountains where we caught some brilliant weather one day that made for a great day’s walk around !
First time in a cave with a camera! Not exactly convenient having it in an airtight box in the bottom of an airtight bag but at least it made it through and there are some OK shots despite us having no idea how to go about this.
Walking around with a flash and setting it off from various angles during a long exposure produced some interesting results.
A few of the images have been published in magazines.
