As part of North-East Open Studios I will be showcasing a selection of my best work from the last few years and selling prints, postcards and books in Peterculter Heritage Hall, Station Road East. It’s a brilliant location as the hall is situated on the Deeside Way, just a few yards from the River Dee.
Also showing [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
Small things are more interesting when you stop and take a closer look:
I’ve been playing around with a bellows extension this week which allows me to get greater than 1:1 ratio photos. It opens up a new range of interesting bits and pieces to take photos of, such as the sycamore helicopter and the pine cone [...]
Red Squirrels munching on some free nuts in Carnie Woods, Westhill. There’s a good number of reds in this small wood and as it’s a busy dog walking site they seem quite comfortable with folk watching them. This guy sat eating away quite happily for 10 minutes until a squadron of dogs came bounding round the [...]
A group of us relocated to a large house in Bute off the West coast of Scotland last weekend to celebrate the birthday of our good friend Dana. It was a good excuse to take my camera and get some photos of this small but charming island.
We stayed at a beautiful Landmark Trust property called Ascog [...]
We took a trip up to the Lecht on Saturday to check out the snow, it was pretty spectacular. We stopped on the Lecht – Ballater road and stumbled into a bunch of Red Grouse on the pull.
It was my first time up there in winter, well worth it if you want to see snow deeper [...]
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 [...]