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Glen Trool

By admin | Published 15/05/2009

A picture from a couple of days ago.  We went for a walk around the ‘Rig of the Jarkness’ which is a ridge up in the hills above Glentrool.  There wasn’t much to show from the walk, photographically speaking, apart from this panorama looking down Glen Trool towards Loch Trool.

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Loch Trool Sunrise

By admin | Published 10/04/2009

Todays archive post is once again from an area that I have visited a few times.  This is Loch Trool, near Newton Stewart in Dumfires and Galloway.  This was taken after sunrise with the sun just breaking through the clouds and the early morning mist hanging around the still Loch.

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Ken Dee Marshes

By admin | Published 03/04/2009

Today the weather forecast was for sunny spells with any cloud burning off by mid morning.  When we left home it was 9 degrees and rising with a watery sun hidden in a cloudy sky.  By the time we reached the RSPB reserve at Ken Dee Marshes, it was very dull and misty with a [...]

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Sunrise in Glentrool

By admin | Published 21/03/2009

Todays archive post is of one of my favourite images.  This is Glentrool taken not long after the sunrise just as the early morning light started to illuminate the hills behind Loch Trool.

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Red Kites

By admin | Published 24/02/2009

Yesterday saw me at Bellymack Hill Farm where I managed to get some shots of Red Kites.  These birds are an endangered species that was reintroduced to Dumfries & Galloway in 2001, and now numbers are starting to increase.

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