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Photography (unintentionally) became a big pastime of mine and it started with the hills. I started out with a cheaper point-and-shoot model, deciding at the end of 2008 that it was time to move up a step and get a D-SLR. The result was I ended up with the favourite among point-and-shooters, the brilliant Canon 400D. A few features are lacking that I could do with, but on the whole it's quality is perfect. It held up for nearly two years of heavy abuse in the mountains and continued to be a rock-solid piece of kit until it died late-2010. My current camera is a Canon 500d, the same camera in most aspects and an upgrade.

This page should turn into a list of all things I've done in photography - favourites, projects (some went better than others) and the occasional time-lapse.

Best Photography
See my best mountain photography

Summit Panoramas
I've began compiling a list of summit panoramas - they cover a 360° view in most cases, including detailed annotations. Though not yet complete, I've started with Southern Highland panoramas but all Scotland's regions will be included soon.

Projects

Radio Wave Photography
10/11 February 2010 This proved to be a very interesting and unique project. We were attempting to take a picture in wavelengths of light the human eye cannot see. It took 8 hours from start to tedious end and many more hours racking our brains. It is a special photograph but I think it's a shame that to my knowledge, nobody with the relevant skills to advance the technology picked up on it.

Eclipsed Moon
31st December 2009 I brought the camera out to try shooting this 1-in-100 year occurrence: a partially eclipsed Blue Moon. A Blue Moon is the thirteenth full moon in a year (there's usually 12 annually) and this happened at the same time as Earth's shadow passed across the bottom right hand corner of the Moon.

Noctilucent Clouds
18th June 2009 Between 1am and 2.40am on 18th June 2009, I set up my camera on a tripod looking to the northern skies to shoot 406 long exposure images that went towards a time-lapse showing the movement of noctilucent clouds. Good results, but made a mess of exposure.

Clearing Ants
10th June 2009 Having uncovered an ant colony beneath a paving slab in our garden, I took a time-lapse as the eggs disappeared, carried away one by one. It's not the cleanest time-lapse, but nonetheless cool to watch the eggs disappear.

Campsie Fells by Night
9th + 11th February 2009 At the beginning of 2009, I developed an interest in photography and decided to try out my new skills by photographing the Campsie Fells and surrounding area by night. The moon was out, and snow was on the ground. I'd heard that walking in the snow under moonlight is almost like being in the daylight so bright is the light being reflected and I travelled out to a small hill outside Glasgow with camera and tripod in hand.

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Photography
Photography (unintentionally) became a big pastime of mine and it started with the hills. I started out with a cheaper point-and-shoot model, deciding at the end of 2008 that it was time to move up a step and get a D-SLR. The result was I ended up with the favourite among point-and-shooters, the brilliant Canon 400D. A few features are lacking that I could do with, but on the whole it's quality is perfect. It held up for nearly two years of heavy abuse in the mountains and continued to be a rock-solid piece of kit until it died late-2010. My current camera is a Canon 500d, the same camera in most aspects and an upgrade. This page should turn into a list of all things I've done in photography - favourites, projects (some went better than others) and the occasional time-lapse.
Best Photography See my best mountain photography Summit Panoramas I've began compiling a list of summit panoramas - they cover a 360° view in most cases, including detailed annotations. Though not yet complete, I've started with Southern Highland panoramas but all Scotland's regions will be included soon. Projects

	Radio Wave Photography 10/11 February 2010	This proved to be a very interesting and unique project. We were attempting to take a picture in wavelengths of light the human eye cannot see. It took 8 hours from start to tedious end and many more hours racking our brains. It is a special photograph but I think it's a shame that to my knowledge, nobody with the relevant skills to advance the technology picked up on it.

	Eclipsed Moon 31st December 2009	I brought the camera out to try shooting this 1-in-100 year occurrence: a partially eclipsed Blue Moon. A Blue Moon is the thirteenth full moon in a year (there's usually 12 annually) and this happened at the same time as Earth's shadow passed across the bottom right hand corner of the Moon.

	Noctilucent Clouds 18th June 2009	Between 1am and 2.40am on 18th June 2009, I set up my camera on a tripod looking to the northern skies to shoot 406 long exposure images that went towards a time-lapse showing the movement of noctilucent clouds. Good results, but made a mess of exposure.

	Clearing Ants 10th June 2009	Having uncovered an ant colony beneath a paving slab in our garden, I took a time-lapse as the eggs disappeared, carried away one by one. It's not the cleanest time-lapse, but nonetheless cool to watch the eggs disappear.

	Campsie Fells by Night 9th + 11th February 2009	At the beginning of 2009, I developed an interest in photography and decided to try out my new skills by photographing the Campsie Fells and surrounding area by night. The moon was out, and snow was on the ground. I'd heard that walking in the snow under moonlight is almost like being in the daylight so bright is the light being reflected and I travelled out to a small hill outside Glasgow with camera and tripod in hand.