In memory of a good friend

On the 28th February 2007, Iain Everson who was a very good friend, passed away suddenly.

He is warmly remembered and sadly missed, especially by his daughters, Michelle and Heidi and his partner Heidi Goehrke who has recently launched a photographic and digital art web site of work they did together; which can be seen at http://vitualeyes.co.uk/

Iain and I were from farming backgrounds with similar interests and occupations. When life eventually introduced us to each other, back in 1998, we were to discover that we had been following a weirdly parallel course since the 1970's knowing a lot of the same people, all the way from Oxford to Inverness.

I wish Iain could have stayed around to see us finish the boat refit, so that he and Heidi could have enjoyed it with us; but that was not meant to be.

There's obviously more to the story but this isn't the place. Suffice to say bon voyage mon ami.

Wildlife Online

http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/

This is an excellent site for wildlife reference created by Marc Baldwin in Southampton, England.

Marc has worked hard to develope Widlife Online over the last few years and being qualified in the natural sciences enables him to provide data in an informed and authorative context.

I'm sure that as the project continues Wildlife Online will become a well recognised resource and would recommend the site to anyone searching for good wildlife info' on the net.

Website Revision and boat maintenance

Sorry it's been a while since the last entry but we have the boat out of the water for a couple of weeks of work.

I shouldn't be spending time doing website stuff but wanted to get a new shop and the blog properly integrated, so this is a quick post to say that there are a few pages including the print catalogues which haven't been changed yet.

I hope to get the remaining changes made over the next couple of evenings.

Will be working on the boat then, to get back in the water next week and as soon as I've re-commissioned the engines; which I hope to have done towards the end of May, I'll be off to do some new photography.

The blogs will get a bit more interesting after that.

More free backgrounds

Nearly closed the site down and started again at the beginning of this month; but relented after receiving several e-mail comments. Saved at the eleventh hour.

Instead, I did some presentational changes and axed everything from the site other than the Giclée Print galleries. Now I can concentrate on producing photographic art prints. The library was a real problem and going nowhere so now I've sent it somewhere else. I've got to say it's one hell of a relief.

I haven't quite sorted the gallery index yet but at least it's all there and can be added to easily. It's a bit longer to load than I would like which probably means I'll be ending up with more than one index page eventually; but it will do for now.

I'm sitting watching a snow flurry out of the cabin wndows, so as the last storms of winter rage, here are three summer backgrounds to enjoy.



Red Deer stag with 10 point antlers in velvet



Looking west up Strathconon Glen in Easter Ross



Looking south down Loch Lochy in the Great Glen

I hope you like them and if you see an image in the gallery which you would like to use as a screen background, let me know and I'll be happy to add it to the list.