photography – Page 4 – John D Burns

The Bothy with no Name

April 27, 2014johndburns 6

It’s all going pear shaped, I’m running round the house looking for my head torch, my little stove and my set of pans. [...]

April 13, 2014John D Burns 8

(If you go two episodes back in the blog you can read the first instalment Judgement Day) It’s the morning after the walk [...]

March 16, 2014John D Burns 20

The Iron Lodge is behind me, once a proud place, the lodge now languishes with an aura of genteel decay. Light fittings dangle [...]

January 15, 2014johndburns 22

This far North, in January, it never really gets light. I can see the sun peeping over the tops of the hills that [...]

January 2, 2014John D Burns 8

Sometimes the weather creeps up on you. You read the forecast and decide there’s nothing doing on the hills for a while and [...]

October 12, 2013John D Burns 3

Mountains are big. I’ve noticed. In fact they are really big at the bottom and always very small at the top, that’s how [...]

September 18, 2013johndburns 10

Now this is going to hurt. I think you can say, with some certainty, that if you sent off from the little seaside [...]

August 26, 2013johndburns 6

Over recent months I’ve taken to the road heading about the Highlands on my road bike. Here’s one of my favourite runs from [...]

There’s only one thought in my head now, “Keep pedalling!” I know they are after me. My legs screaming and my backside feels [...]

There is magic here. It’s in the way the wind whispers in the trees, it’s in the gnarled trunks of the old woodland, [...]