Winter « David Officer Photography

Down on the Farm

It’s been a long hard winter in the north-east of Scotland. With snow on the ground for almost 3 months solid, record low temperatures and snow showers right up till May, every industry in the country has felt the effects, but perhaps those who felt it hardest have been our farmers. Few others feel the winter [...]

End of Winter

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 [...]

Autumn

Sycamore seeds waiting to drop

Golden Sycamore leaves

Bzzz

Unidentified orange fly

Coal Tit stashing seeds

Sunset over Mt Keen and Clachnaben

I had a half day at work today so I thought I’d spend the afternoon in the garden, trying to get some pictures that summed up autumn. This was inspired [...]

The End of Summer

Bee at Fuscia

Well, I guess that’s that. It’s finally over. We had a good run at it but in the end we never really got going, perhaps next year eh?

It was dark by the time I got home from work today, too dark to do anything. It was pretty damn cold today too. I almost [...]