The Cows of Waskerley Way
Cows grazing next to the Waskerley Way railway path, County Durham
Wind Turbine – County Durham
Wind Turbine near Rowley, County Durham
A Website Shop and more coming soon
Glencoe, Highlands of Scotland, 2015
It’s been around a year since the new website design was launched and over the last 12 months a number of changes and improvements have been made to the site.
This year the focus has been on speeding up the website, improving the menu system and adding a new slideshow system to the gallery. The biggest, and most exciting change however will arrive next month when the website will feature a shop where prints can be purchased direct from my good self.
Powered by the Woocommerce system and using PayPal for payment, the store will initially contain a limited series of 20×16 inch framed prints, starting with my Scotland landscapes (including the shot of Glencoe seen above), that will be numbered and signed. I’m keeping things simple to start with but I will add other items at a later date along with new print finishes etc.
The second big change concerns the news section itself. I’ve decided to add more posts to the site and broaden the current remit of the news section to include posts with new photography, video and audio. The news area of the website is being underused at the moment and the change will make the news section more dynamic and varied.
Both the shop and the news changes will come into effect in June.
Photographers within a landscape
If there is one place on Skye that is loaded with photographers (and Skye has its fair share!) it has to be Sligachan, located halfway between Broadford and Portree, where the Cullins mountains dominate the landscape.
The landscape just shouts to be photographed and on my visit there were these intrepid snappers shooting the landscape from the little hill. Every one of them had a tripod, while mine laid sleeping in the boot of the car.
Possibly they were a camera club, photography workshop or a bunch of photography enthusiasts on a trip, but regardless of who they were, it was fascinating to see how they carefully viewed the landscape and went about their photography of the black Cuillins. Then they packed their gear, picked up their tripods and went back to the car park, a large number of them taking notice of the film camera i was carrying as they went by.
Just a shame I’ll probably never get to see the photographs they shot that day.
