On my way to Brora for the Sotheby’s/Diageo project Stu and I stopped off in Inverness for the night and took the time to wander up and down the River Ness a bit. It was a lovely, calm evening following a fairly hefty rain storm a few hours earlier. Always promising for some sunset action with that extra moisture in the air. As we were wandering back towards the hotel in search of food, this scene presented itself to us.

Speaking of food. It was here that I properly began my adventure through Scottish cuisine with a “Scotch Egg”. I don’t know if the true origins of the product are Scottish, but they do sell them pretty much everywhere there. Stu grabbed me a super high-quality version from the snack chiller cabinet of a supermarket. And as we wandered, I tucked in… How was it? Well. Imagine buying a boiled egg from Amazon and then trying to eat it through the box. Yeah. You can see such culinary adventures in video form atop my Insta highlights in the first “Funny Scotland” section.

Inverness and the Egg

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• Date Taken2023-06-12 08:05:53
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/640
• Aperture4
• ISO160
• Focal Length62.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Look! From The Holy Grail… It’s Castle Aaaaaaarrgggghhhh!
How awesome is that… absolutely one of my favorite movies. I commented in one of those silly insta stories I do that there is a point in every man’s life when he falls in love with John Cleese – and that was the movie that did it for me… Anyway, you can imagine my excitement when Stu took me here to the Castle Aargh from the movie.
I grew up watching a lot of BBC stuff that they would show after 10 PM on PBS (I guess late because it was so “racy”). Monty Python, Blackadder… those were my favorites… but I’d watch anything… I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every episode of Keeping Up Appearances too.

Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!

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• Date Taken2023-06-18 17:27:37
• CameraFC3411
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/200
• Aperture2.8
• ISO120
• Focal Length8.4 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias-0.7

Another from a beautiful sunset on a long drive around the edges of Scotland… Will add some others soon over on the new social media platform everyone is enjoying, which seems nice and clean. Kind of nice to have a “Start Over” hey? Check mine out here: https://stuckincustoms.com/not-twitter

The Pink Peaks of the Highlands

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• Date Taken2023-06-28 22:07:55
• CameraFC2103
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/44
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

One of many images I captured of the detail inside Glasgow Cathedral. I spent a fun afternoon here and the up around the necropolis exploring.

Inside Glasgow Cathedral

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• Date Taken2023-06-16 01:27:08
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1600
• Aperture4
• ISO6400
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Another perfect little bay while exploring the north of Scotland. There were so many of these idyllic locations along the way. I guess it’s not quite as calming in the winter but on this day… wonderful. Also, notice those shapes down in the bottom left? Thats a small cemetery. That’s some location to find yourself for the rest of time!

A Cemetery with a View

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• Date Taken2023-06-28 14:38:57
• CameraFC2103
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/1041
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

While in Scotland, I’ve been working on some very different sorts of 360 videos. I will start sharing them soon.

One day, I was walking here in Glasgow with this 360 camera and I saw this hippy looking dude without a shirt standing in a fountain with two buckets. And I said, well I have a feeling this will be interesting… and then I followed him through the trees carrying these buckets… and then he emerged and there were a dozen other hippies there with a huge tarp for a slip n’ slide! They were all really nice and invited me to join… they said do you have a bathing suit? I said no, but I can go in my undies! And they said most of them already were… you know hippies… these are my people… so then I did that for about 30 mins and it was a blast… then I put my stuff back on and took this photo as I walked away to go shoot the sunset.

Hippy Slide

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• Date Taken2023-06-17 06:45:52
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/5000
• Aperture4
• ISO125
• Focal Length27.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I captured this image along my spectacular road trip throughout Scotland. What a wonderful country! So much like New Zealand, but it has that wonderful old-world romantic vibration I love so much. I was in Scotland for a whole month and had amazing adventures with wonderful people – hugs to you all… I guess I’ll just have to come back – I’ve kinda got that feeling!

I Love Rocks!

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• Date Taken2023-06-30 21:48:05
• CameraFC2103
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/30
• Aperture2.8
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.5 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

…just another perfectly romantic bridge here in Scotland, lifted right out of a fantasy novel from Patrick Rothfuss…

The Rothfuss Bridge

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• Date Taken2023-06-19 07:04:30
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture4
• ISO200
• Focal Length24.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

On this particular day on Skye, Stu and I probably hiked for 3-4 hours… and then an extra 1.5 hours because of a… errrr… let’s say an “unplanned landing” of the drone.

I was flying around, and I didn’t realize how windy it was. Nor was I wind-aware enough to realize the return home was 180 degrees EXACTLY into that stiff wind. So, when the battery warning came, I told it to return home… started to relax… and I was looking at the screen thinking… hrmmm… that scene is not changing much. And then I noticed it was getting 1 meter closer every 10 seconds and I still had a significant way to go. This wasn’t good. So, jammed it into sport mode to try to fight the wind harder, but, to no avail… it declared an emergency landing in a rather treacherous area, but Stu and I went on a cross-country (mosty uphill) adventure to find and recover it… We found it, and all was right in the world again… then once again we got back after midnight.

The Land Castle

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• Date Taken2023-06-19 21:40:46
• CameraFC3411
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/15
• Aperture2.8
• ISO360
• Focal Length8.4 mm
• FlashNo Flash
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias