(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......
The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......
As I cleared my mum's house when she was moved into care suffering from dementia I discovered a small brooch on top of a wardrobe concealed within a dusty cobwebbed envelope. It was easy......
*Contains images/video and descriptions of deer culling* *Click images to view larger* *Names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality at the subjects request* Running......
Mixed broadleaf woodland at Jock’s Gill, near Carluke, Clyde Valley, Scotland "...some of the best advice I ever had." said Ben (duckrabbit)......
It started in the wee hours, a distant keening that came and went as the wind gusting in off the Atlantic hustled around our van. It was in the notquitedark, an hour or so......
What's the value of a story? To the reader it might simply be 'entertaining'. To the teller however it might be priceless - particularly if its a carefully nurtured cultural tale, woven around local......
I like making images that do something. Something that goes beyond their simply being 'nice' or 'colourful' but which instead makes something explode in the viewer's head, makes them go "Oh!" and challenges them......
"He's my mate, I mean what else can you do if not something for your mate? So I got him this so he can walk with me, and he loves the beach..." ...
When I was in my early teens, around 1976, I took a wander through a few countries in Southern Africa. "You should visit Lesotho" someone suggested. "Great countryside and the Basotho people are really colourful......
I've just had a memorable week. My mum died, and we buried her. That's the short version. The long version? Well, permit me the indulgence to weave a tale that......
It's fairly common these days for the word 'Islamic' to be followed by that second word ''Fun...' but continuing with the additional ...'damentalism' tacked on the end, usually on the front of a newspaper, and......
This will, eventually, be a mild rant. Funny how events from the present can recall, vividly, events from the past. It happened to me a few days ago, in England. But first the past... [caption id="attachment_39116"......
Milked for all we're worth. That's the creative......
An ongoing series about Inverness Masjid, the northernmost mosque in the UK. Part one is here. --------------------------------------------------------- "You'll need to blank out my face in that picture please..." said the......
"No we don't need you making pictures of us." said the vexed-looking Asian man, "We need to keep a low profile….the way things are just now…all this trouble...we need….we just need to......
Aye, misery. Scotland's been in the news a fair bit prior to, during and subsequent to the recent General Election. For many people Scotland conjures up images of mountains, rain, and more rain. I read......
Living with a tiger © John MacPherson "Oh Donnie, Donnie, please.....please....straighten yourself up, please! ......
Trawling off Mull. Garvellachs and Scarba behind © John MacPherson I wrote this in......
I saw experience yesterday. It was eloquent, supportive, directive, but overwhelmingly caring. I was visiting my mum, who has dementia and is looked after in a residential care home in the Scottish Highlands. A close relative......