In Search of Brigadoon.

I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......

‘Inside The Fort’.

(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......

The Fish That Never Swam.

My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......

NC500: The Long and Wounding Road.

The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......

Disruption and Tech.

As I cleared my mum's house when she was moved into care suffering from dementia I discovered a small brooch on top of a wardrobe concealed within a dusty cobwebbed envelope. It was easy......

Consternation, Conversation, Conservation.

*Contains images/video and descriptions of deer culling* *Click images to view larger* *Names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality at the subjects request*     Running......

“Listen to the trees…”.

Mixed broadleaf woodland at Jock’s Gill, near Carluke, Clyde Valley, Scotland     "...some of the best advice I ever had."  said Ben (duckrabbit)......

Love & Loss on a Northern Isle.

It started in the wee hours, a distant keening that came and went as the wind gusting in off the Atlantic hustled around our van. It was in the notquitedark, an hour or so......

A post photography world.

I like making images that do something. Something that goes beyond their simply being 'nice' or 'colourful' but which instead makes something explode in the viewer's head, makes them go "Oh!" and challenges them......

My Mate Travis.

"He's my mate, I mean what else can you do if not something for your mate? So I got him this so he can walk with me, and he loves the beach..."   ...

Islamic Fun………...

It's fairly common these days for the word 'Islamic' to be followed by that second word ''Fun...' but continuing with the additional ...'damentalism' tacked on the end, usually on the front of a newspaper, and......

“Dear Dad”.

  On Father's Day amidst the celebrations that a few of you may be enjoying, take some time out to watch ...

Seeing the wood and the trees.

A few days before Christmas, an email pinged into my inbox: "Not sure if you'll manage this John, REALLY last minute stuff with a tight deadline, 26th January in fact, but could you photograph a......

Highland Road Trip.

Took a few days off last week and drove my son William (7) and nephew Adam (23, who is hitch-hiking around from his home in Norway) on a short trip around the west coast......

The Sheltering Space.

An ongoing series about Inverness Masjid, the northernmost mosque in the UK. Part one  is here. ---------------------------------------------------------   "You'll need to blank out my face in that picture please..." said the......

Tales from the Mosque.

"No we don't need you making pictures of us." said the vexed-looking Asian man, "We need to keep a low profile….the way things are just now…all this trouble...we need….we just need to......

The Treacherous Orchestra.

Something musical for a cold snowy Friday anyone? The Treacherous Orchestra, and the legacy of the sadly missed Martyn Bennett. Read this to......

Pretend I’m not here..

Above Loch Loyne © John MacPherson Last Saturday above Loch Loyne I sat in my van in the......

Well, into the night.

I have a few 'clootie' (cloth) wells near me. These are 'healing wells' and the tradition is to dip a piece of rag in the water and wipe the afflicted part of your body......

Floating in a sea of stories.

Charlie Beckett used a metaphor in a recent (excellent) article that has become more commonly used of late "drowning in a sea of stories about our world". (Sometimes also seen......