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Collection 1 by David Officer | Make Your Own Book

I’ve published my first book with a collection of 20 of my best photos from the last couple of years.  You can buy it online at Blurb.com or in person at my NEOS exhibition later this month.  It’s a softback book, [...]

Free Wallpapers for you and all your friends!

To celebrate my first solo exhibition as part of North-East Open Studios, I’ve created 5 wallpapers to give away for free.  Just click the link below that best suits your computers optimum resolution and either open it with a program such as winRAR or select save as and extract the files later.  .zip extraction programs are [...]

Playful Otter

Last year we went to the west coast for a camping trip and managed some Otter sightings, Heather fished out the video for me and put it on Youtube. I thought I’d share it with you as it has lots of potential for making people go “Awwww” [...]

Stonehaven at Sunrise

So, 3.20 am on nearly the shortest day of the year, I decided that would be the perfect time to get up and go for some sunrise shots.  I’d had one in mind for a while and wanted to capture it while the Oil Seed Rape was in full bloom, it would make a perfect summer [...]

Union Terrace Gardens on a summers day

Yesterday was the first Saturday since the Council passed their motion to support City Square Project and the possible destruction of the beautiful Union Terrace Gardens, in the heart of Aberdeen.  It also happened to be the hottest day of the year so far, as a result it was rammed.  I was there from 3 till [...]

Free Gig at Union Terrace Gardens

As part of IHEARTUTG, local promoters IMP put together a  bill of unplugged musicians to perform for free in the gardens this afternoon.  Proof that you don’t need much to bring them to life, just some imagination and the will to do something.

A number of artists played with my favourite being Les Pelicans who gave a [...]

Pet Portraits

I’m really excited to say that we will soon be offering a Pet Portrait service, just as soon as my portable background arrives!  I really enjoyed doing pet sessions when I worked for Venture so I’m quite looking forward to getting back into the unpredictable world of working with animals.

The most interesting session I did was [...]

Up Helly Aa

Up Helly Aa

It’s been in our heads to visit Shetland for Up Helly Aa for a wee while and this year we managed to do it.  Up Helly Aa is a fire festival which celebrates Shetland’s Viking heritage while also being a very good excuse for a lot of alcohol to be consumed and for [...]

Crathes Castle in Autumn

Crathes Castle on a cold Autumn day

Autumn trees at Crathes

Crathes Castle

Crathes Pond

Crathes Autumn tree

Yesterday I took the bus to Crathes Castle and had a lovely day traipsing round the woods searching for Red Squirrel.  I had a plan too.  I knew they regularly appeared at the feeder behind the shops, so [...]

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year has gone to Jose Luis Rodriguez for a stunning shot of an Iberian Wolf leaping a farm gate in the dead of night.  Jose created his own camera trap using a Hasselblad 503CW to capture the rare Spanish wolf which is traditionally very shy of human activity.

Wildlife Photographer [...]