The Heathers of Scotland - photo journal

    I have included a selection of my photographs highlighting the stunning beauty of the landscape and habitats I found during my field research trip to the Scottish Highlands in August/September of 2007. As I catalog the massive pile of gigabytes into an ordered record I will change this page on a regular basis. Some are 35mm photos and some are digital.

    My trip started in Edinburgh where I spent three days at the Royal Botanical Gardens going through the moorland habitat area in order to identify and field sketch the plants. Following this, the majority of my travel was north to the Speyside River area of the Highlands including Cairngorm National Park.  I then made my way to the Trossachs, which is north of Stirling. The Queen Elizabeth Forest Park lies right on the edge of the Highland Boundary Fault line. This park is a beautiful area, stretching from the east shore of Loch Lomond to the Strathyre. It contains mountain and moorland, rivers, lochs, forest and woodland. Everything north is the Highlands, and to the south stretch the lowlands of Scotland.

    Below is a Google map that marks my base in the Cairngorms in the village of Grantown-on-Spey.