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10 amazing locations to photograph in North West Scotland

Scotland never ceases to impress me when it comes to beautiful rugged landscapes. In no particular order, here are ten of my favourite photogenic locations...

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Video Spectacular Scotland

Scotland sure has changeable weather, but when the weather is good, it's just gorgeous. Most of this footage was taken during Winter 2015 and Spring 2016...

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Sunset Surf

Some lovely textures in the breaking waves, just before a Hebridean sunset

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Video Some eye candy from around Scotland

I did quite a bit of travelling around Scotland in 2018 for both work and pleasure. This reel is a compilation of clips from some of the gorgeous locations...

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Hebridean Dreams

We drove up to the Isle of Harris and Lewis, via Skye, to watch the partial solar eclipse on 20th March 2015. As well as deserted pristine white beaches, we...

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Video Oran Na Mara - holiday home on the Isle of Harris

https://vimeo.com/paulhoneywell/vimeo.com/orannamara Òran na Mara ("Song of the Sea" in English) is situated in one of the world’s most stunning locations...

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Video Rum View - holiday home

A holiday home with a new contemporary design and fantastic views, located on the Isle of Eigg

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Video Wee Edinburgh

A wee timelapse video I shot around Edinburgh city centre, mostly from the castle. Toy cars, buses, boats, trains and cranes, as well as merry go rounds, big…

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Video Dream drive - North West Scotland

Floating through some spectacular scenery in NW Scotland, April 21st 2014. I was watching northern lights and Lyrid meteors just 8 hours before this...

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Video Mars, Venus and the Moon setting over Edinburgh

A brief time-lapse of Mars, Venus and a crescent moon setting over Edinburgh, just after sunset on Friday night (20th Feb). It was a beautiful sight...

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An eerie moonrise on New Years Day

An eerie moonrise at the start of 2021, with the 92% moon rising behind wind turbines and a chemical plant, with some new years day fireworks. I was...

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A misty Loch Duich

Took this one last week, on the way back home after a one day trip in the campervan, before the current Level 4 lockdown restrictions kicked in.

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Saturn / Jupiter conjunction - December 2020

It will be a long time until the next one (we won't be around), here's hoping it's not as shown below

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1% crescent moon setting above the Cuillins

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A river of caramel

This was from my last trip to Harris, which was February 2020, before the Covid restrictions came into effect. It was quite cold and it snowed the...

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Sailing around Mallaig / Skye / Eigg / Rum and an ecounter with dolphins

This is an unplugged video, with no music or commentary, it uses some clips that were never used in the final client video. It gives a little taste of one...

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Video The Queensferry Crossing

Like many others, I have watched the new Queensferry Crossing emerge from the Forth Estuary since 2012. This video shows the bridge in various stages of...

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Solo tree at sunset

A single tree, just before sunset with the Cuillin mountains in the background.

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Loch Droma

I often stop here on the way up to Ullapool, it's a great wee place for a coffee break and to check the view. This was the view just before the wind picked...

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Kelvin-Helmholtz - wave like clouds

I have never seen these before, so they must be quite rare, apparently they are "Kelvin-Helmholtz" clouds, this was taken from my bedroom window this...

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Fortune favours the brave

There's a wonderful photo of Edinburgh castle doing the rounds atm on social media, with Edinbugh castle sticking out above the mist on Monday night. It's a...

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Reflections on the loch

After seeing David Clapp's Luskentyre rainbow photo, which was taken with a circular polariser, I thought I'd get myself a circular polariser to try one...

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My camera just couldn't capture the colours this day

Not a bad view when eating your dinner, Toby on the white sands at Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris. I had to stop the car and take this photo, but it...

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Where eagles dare

I was heading over to Gairloch and spotted this eagle scanning the ground for some lunch. It was quite far away, but it was great just to sit on a boulder...

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Isle of Skye sunset

I took this one with the 100-400mm at the 400 end, a long distance sunset behind the Isle of Skye.

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A lone tree by a misty loch

Wish I had used the tripod for this one, as the low light just after sunrise and a slow 400mm lens made it tricky to capture hand held.

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Red roof panaorama

I was driving down from Ullapool to Gairloch and stopped at a red roof croft house and thought I'd try getting an aerial panorama shot.

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