Ssshhhhhhh! Part 3
Head south from Ericeira or west from Lisbon and you'll find Serra de Sintra, the wooded hills dotted with historic palaces. Here you can drive through a dramatic countryside with hairpin...
Snow pics
Hopefully we've seen the worst of the snow for an other year, but it was good to get the chance to add a few more wintry photos to the collection. These were taken locally, in and around...
Ssshhhhhhh! Part 2
Drive around Estremadura, the region north of Lisbon, and you'll discover numerous, picturesque fortified towns, market towns, fishing villages and religious centres. Below are photographs I...
Lovin’ Lisbon
Waaww! Can't wait to get back. And now that Easyjet are flying direct from Edinburgh instead of via Stansted, we can get there quicker. After eight days at Ericeira on October 2007 (see...
Winter reflections
Following the rain we had in early December, fields near Newport flooded, offering a photo opportunity. On a cold, misty 11 December afternoon, I stopped and shot this selection.
Ssshhhhhhh!
Keep this quiet. Read, but tell no-one! The Lisbon coast is beautiful and largely unscathed by tourism, and I don't want it to change before I return there, although it probably will as they...
English links
Just finished and on its way to the printers down south is the latest golf book that I've had the pleasure to produce. Social Links, by Cambridge-based Donald Cameron, reveals the...
Refreshing!
Asked to refresh the branding of Gleneagles Water, Jim Greig and I developed a new identity, marketing campaign and a range of bottles that included a new sports bottle, a mass market bottle and an...
Premier solution?
On 2 June 1998, the brief to design a corporate identity for the newly-formed Scottish Premier League landed on my desk. However, it was to be a pitch – a football pitch? – against other...
Crackin’ Cracow
A direct flight from Edinburgh took us into Cracow on a wet Saturday night in early February, but it was actually milder there than the bleak Scottish weather we were having at home. Snow on...