Kevin Woods - Hillwalking in Scotland

About

Photography

This website is a continuing project I began during September 2007 to log my ascents of the Scottish mountains. The site focuses around the 'Mountain Ascents' page where most content is found, but new areas have been added that concern my other interests.

As a long term "project", this website is always expanding and I have plenty to work on should I keep climbing mountains. It is primarily a personal endeavour, but I hope you find something of interest in it.

The camera is something I've come to take on every hillwalk. I started out using a Canon PowerShot S30, though as of December '08, upgraded to a Canon EOS 400D SLR. The improvement in quality from one camera to the other is vast. This camera is bulkier though and I initially found it difficult to find a case that would allow me to keep the camera out of the rucksack, but LowePro's TLZ Mini camera case allows me to do this and means I can carry around an SLR with minimal hassle. Nowadays a camera is one of the items I always make sure to have, I'd hate to go without.

This site features many images including panoramas. While I focus on taking good images, some of the photo-taking can be for documentary purposes and is not all postcard-quality material. I do try to take some good shots though!

Links

I'm not the first to have an online climbing diary, and found the inspiration and motivation to start this through reading the websites of others. This is a small list of my personal favourites:

Alan's Munro Diary - Diary of a completer of the Munros
Petter Bjorstad - An exceptional list of mountains from all over the world. Great information.
Steven Fallon - Long distance hill routes, by the 13-time Munros completer Steven Fallon
westcoastpeaks.com - An impressive site of west coast Norwegian mountains