Scotland: Fine Art Photography for Sale

Sally Ross’s new book, Dornoch and the Northern Highlands is now available for purchase!

Kites flying, people strolling, waves lapping the beach, and to our right the glorious Royal and Ancient St. Andrews Club House…. This is the beach made famous for the opening scene in the movie Chariots of Fire!

Deep July cold followed us as we drove the northern Highlands. The dark, flat waters near Loch Loyal, the wind in the grasses, and the gray, foreboding clouds suggest both the vastness the land and the intensity of the weather.

Even the single track roads are on the map in Scotland, allowing adventurers like us to find undiscovered secrets such as this view of Glen Cassley at the end of the 11 mile road off the A839.

Scottish lochs…tucked away in the Northern Highlands….

We ate a quick bite while 50 mile per hour winds bashed the thin walls of the cafe; hit wildly erratic golf balls across the cove on #18 of Durness Golf Course; toured the cemetery on a blustery hillside; and finally came to Smoo Cave.

Just a favorite image from our drive through the Highlands the other day.  This croft house is just beyond Bonar Bridge.  The history of crofting is rich, and issues of support for crofting continues to be a major issue in this area.

Okay, so somedays you just go with the flow.  Enjoy these photos from our recent activities. These are for the friends more than the photography: PHOTO !:  Rex at Bonar Bridge Golf Course (lovely, green, surrounded by mountains): PHOTO 2:  Sunday “carvery” lunch at the Royal Hotel, Tain (well, roast beef is okay on Weight [...]

Sometimes you don’t have to go far afield for beauty–such is life at Glenuig. Struie Hill Rain View from Home, Glenuig Dornoch is just up the road a mile–here’s the castle at sunset. Ah…in for the night!

Sandra and I should have checked a map for the hike up Ben Bhraggie, just north of Golspie, East Sutherland, Scotland.  But it was a glorious day!  Between us we have 130 years, but neither she, the local, nor I, the visitor, had made this walk, and we were eager!  We could see for miles [...]