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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured
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Scottish landscape photographer and occasional potter. Often found in the rain, muttering to myself, wearing wellies.

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And with the wild weather of this week, I think that might be the last of the autumn. Snow and ice next please!

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The last autumn leaves clinging to a tree amongst the old man's beard lichens
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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A calm little find at a loch in Rothiemurchus. Exploring till I found something to photograph.

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A dead tree toppled into a loch.
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I have no issue with "honeypots", but The Hermitage is now getting so hammered with footfall - I think this will be my last shot from there for a while.

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The old Bridge at the Hermitage - queues to go walking in this place stretch down the dual carriage way. It's location that a few years ago was quite all the time and mostly only known to locals. Last year 88,000 people visited. This year over 350,000. It's under intolerable pressure.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Some more woodland goodness from Rothiemurchus, by the banks of Loch Morlich. Even a broken tree is valued in a #wood.

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A broken limb sprawls on the floor, the tree damaged and broken by high winds. And yet mosses, lichens and fungi thrive on it. Trees are of such value at all ages and conditions.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Gah! I forgot when I posted this at the weekend that it would be my Monday competition shot. So, apologies, a repost.

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November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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As the autumn changes, the yellows and oranges subside and the browns, coppers and reds have a last hoorah, before they fall and leave us waiting for snow.

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The last of the rich autumn colours in my local wood. The leaves were falling at some rate!
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I big old beast of a tree at Loch Morlich - I couldn't resist it amongst that riot of colour.
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I giant of the woods surrounded by bright foliage and orange bracken.
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The colours this autumn have been awesome. Nearly had to wear sun-glasses to take this!
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All summer I've been anticipating a VERY colourful autumn - much more sunshine in Scotland than usual, means more sugars that then turn into the anthocyanins which in turn, give leaves red and purple pigments. A group of birch trees surrounded by autumnal bracken.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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More from my amazing misty mission in Rothiemurchas!

What a morning that was - hours of just the right amount of visible atmosphere.

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A veil of mist over the loch with just the brightness of birch trunks and autumn foliage peeking through.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"Serendipity". A last minute change of plan and an unexpected photo, but you have to be out and about to spot these things. One I think for my portfolio.

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Blue hour at a Scottish loch. Low level fog, blue hour and the silhouette of Scots pines, Nordic pines and birch trees.
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Sometimes, you find a scene that makes you grin! The pop of yellow colour from the birches, the wisps of lingering mist, the texture in the bark of the pines.

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Colourful autumn birches in a pine forest by the banks of a mist shrouded Scottish Loch
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Autumn colour was peaking near Aviemore last week. I was there to wander round the Rothiemurchas Forest but even the little local roads were looking resplendent.

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Country lane flanked by autumn trees.
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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What a great morning of photography at this loch last week -the mist lingered for hours! I was like a kid in a sweet shop.

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A birch tree in autumn foliage by the banks of a misty loch.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Driving north to Aviemore for a few days, I had to stop off at Faskally Forest for a wee classic.

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The wee boat hut in Faskally Forest, Perthshire, Scotland, surrounded by Autumn colour
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Felt great to be out with the camera again the other day. A foggy morning so my mind turned to this location - I've been trying to photograph it in fog for 7 years!

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An avenue of autumnal beech trees in the fog.
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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A portfolio through to the last 18% and 2 images into the pre-finals - not a bad go of it in the Natural Landscape Photography Awards this year. Anything in the top 10% at the level of that competition is a boost to the ego!

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September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Summer is difficult and I tend to either shoot less or retreat to the woods. So this one is from yesterday, photographing my favourite tree, in my favourite wood, before heading to the pub for some afternoon beers.

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Summer greens in full swing in a small wood near my home.
July 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Good to back on the wheel again today. A wonky teapot from too soft reclaimed (last years disasters and trimmings) clay. I had no right managing to do this after not touching the wheel for 8 months.

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My pottery “season” is April to September (pottery shed is not freezing then) but I’ve started a bit late this year. I try to run a zero waste pottery, all disasters are recycled back into throwable clay, so the first job each year is taking all of last years minging slop bucket contents and reconstituting it into a usable lump. 9kg of it this year, horrible job, but done last weekend and today I got back on the wheel for the first time in 8 months or so. Usually I start with a cup, which collapses and gets recycle again as I try to remember how to throw. This year though I dove straight in and amazingly managed to throw a tea pot from my first kilo of clay which wasn’t really firm enough yet to do anything this ambitious with. A round bellied out jar form (not perfect but not bad for a first go) with galleried lid, a lid with a closed form knob thrown in one piece, and a spout from 100g of the trimmed off and rewedged, and by now very soft, lid clay. Nothing went in the bucket, hard to believe. Maybe this is going to be a good pottery season! Assembly, trimming and handle pulling next in a couple, of days. Nice to get back into it “You centre the clay, while the clay centres you”
June 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Taken last month when I was walking through the Edzell Gorge. The North Esk River cutting a furrow through the rock, while sunlight tries to penetrate the foliage of overhanging beech and oak.

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Sunlight and water flooding the Edzell Gorge.
June 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Out for a walk at the weekend in the Lothians with camera in hand.

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Found a wee path near Edinburgh. Need to go back in the autumn too!
June 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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It's the time of year for handling predominantly green shots and unpicking the puzzles of the woods, so with it raining today, I visited my favourite copse. Calling it "This way to Criss Cross"

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An ancient wood in the central belt of Scotland, full of native species and birdlife. Extremely verdant today in the springtime rain.
May 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Sunshine at Kinclaven Wood - the bluebells looked like they were starting to wilt and there has been no rain since. This is one of the driest spells I can remember - over a month since it rained.

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Dappled light deep in the famous bluebell wood at Kinclaven in Perthshire.
May 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A bluebell wood on Monday. Very sunny and dappled light makes woodland photography difficult, so I played around with the buttery colour cast of my 1970s lenses and a shallow DoF.

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May 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A wee dose of mono 'cos I just couldn't cope with it being so sunny this week.

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Mono image of St Cyrus beach in Angus. A mile or so of solitude.
May 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It’s been ages since I was out and about photographing. Life gets in the way of art sometimes, but out this week I remembered how much I love taking photographs.

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A bridge in an Angus Glen in a phenomenal valley with amazing geology.
May 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM