March '08
Welcome to the March news letter and our new look website. I hope you enjoy looking around the new galleries and pages. As it is new any feedback on usability etc is more than welcome.

Announcements:

Loch Visons wins award
e commerce business of the year

Follow on Experience
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out are now available.

Guests
Gallery page of guests from 1st November to the 27th February have been uploaded. Great shots, well done to all!

Stories and pictures: Squirrel madness

There I was up Ben Cruachan, in the snow, crampons on, with a death grip on my axe and awkwardly moving around like some slug with a limp. The height was not that great and the angle not that much. There is just something about height and agility that for me does not go very well together.

Later that week, I had my feet planted firmly on low level ground, enviously watching squirrels who were poetry in motion. With none of my silly clumsiness, they would effortlessly run along and leap from branches at proportionally similar heights to what I was quaking at. The grace, speed and sheer guts of their manoeuvres was awe inspiring, if not a little needling.

By some bizarre coincidence the sun came out on one day during my Squirrel shoot, a bit of a miracle considering the weather we have been having over the last few weeks. So out went all my thoughts of cute posed shots, and in came attempts at capturing this awesome animal doing what it does best and leaping from tree to tree.
Unfortunately I had set up the hide for cutesy (see thumbnails on right) and thus was too close for leaping (too close to fit the entire squirrel in when in mid jump). However I did just about get lucky with one shot, it does not do the squirrel justice so my mission isn't over (which of course means more days in the field…real shame) but it does give you an idea of why these animals are so exciting to watch!

Hopefully if we ever get nice weather again I will manage a shot that truly represents the acrobatic genius of our native gymnastic masters.

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