Autumn Colours

Nourishing the soul with the bounties of nature

Hello everyone ~ it’s been a while since I last posted anything. There are a myriad of excuses that I won’t bore you with, but, suffice to say, I hope to start posting more regularly again.

A big welcome to all of you who have subscribed in the intervening months. Thank you for joining me on my journeys with a camera. If you haven’t seen it already, you can read a little about me in my welcome post. Do introduce yourself in the comments and tell me where in the world you are; I’m curious.

Welcome to My Journey With a Camera

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In the last couple of months, I’ve had the pleasure of co-hosting three groups of photographers within our self-catering unit on the farm. The last group was led by Mali Davies who, for those of you around for my post way back in March, came to visit in February for a whirlwind recce of potential locations. February gave us a soft mantle of snow in places which was replaced by the hues of autumn this month. Mali is known for his tree photography so leaf colour for the workshop was important, and we weren’t disappointed.

A day was spent wandering along the bank of Lochs Clair and Coulin on the edge of the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve near Kinlochewe. The plan had been to walk round the lochs, but we stopped so often we ran out of time and had to back track. Despite a little squally rain, we were treated to some wonderful light at times and the trees were glorious in their beautiful cacophony of reds, golds and greens, all with the dramatic backdrop of the surrounding mountains.

‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower’ ~ Albert Camus

Loch Coulin with the Beinn Eighe range in the background. A rare drop in the breeze allowed it to be reflected in the loch.

I still have most of my images from the week to look through and process but here are some from that particular day….

Beinn Eighe beyond Loch Clair

Spending time out in the beauty of nature in the company of lovely people is food for the soul. Although physically exhausted by the end of the week, I was mentally revitalised and I‘m looking forward to getting out with my camera a little more than the summer months allowed.

I’m spending a little time catching up on some of the Substacks that I’ve missed reading over the last couple of months. Some may interest you, if you don’t know of them already, and I will share them from time to time.

Alexander M Crow

was one of the first people that I subscribed to on joining Substack last year and it was his A Fall In Time series that drew me in. He is sharing it once again; do take a look at it. He describes it thus:

Once upon a time, I packed a bag, caught a series of trains, and marched out into the woods of western Scotland. I stayed out there from September to December, alone, as summer blew into autumn and then froze into early winter. I gathered water, food, and fuel, and built a shelter to live in. I also kept a journal and took a lot of photographs and here, thirteen years later, I shall share this adventure with you.

A Fall In Time: Week One