Photos, videos and docs of Chris Bowness

Glen Affric

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:18:20 +0000

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I camped by this river on a very cold April night and was greeted with a perfect crisp morning.

Ben Lomond

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:12:32 +0000

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I took this picture of a distant Ben Lomond from the top of Ben Donich.

Maidens Pap and Morven

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:06:05 +0000

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I took this shot as I walked across a track in the Flow Country.

The light oasis

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:00:54 +0000

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I was walking through a dark plantation with my dog many years ago when I spotted this clearing. This forest was almost natural as the trees had been there about 40 years. Sadly this has all now been cleared and replanted.

Waiting for Dog

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:36:31 +0000

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This dog walker waited a long time for his dog to return with the ball... I was far away, but zoomed in with my mobile.

Night Walk

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:06:45 +0000

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The weather has been grim the last couple of months, but on my hill walk tonight there was snow and the stars came out :)

Walking the dog

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:01:29 +0000

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I took my dog out for a walk, set my tripod up and took this with my phone. The phone took over 4 minutes to take this although the exif data says it took about 16 seconds.

Return visit

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:43:33 +0000

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I visited this spot last week and took a shot with my phone (see PIP). Tonight I went back with my camera and took this.

Bannockburn

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:36:41 +0000

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I walked my dog in my local park, the Bannockburn battlefield site. It's been wet for weeks, but tonight it was clear, still and cool. The mist started to form and I steadied my phone on a bin to take this shot...

Looking Down

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:18:05 +0000

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I've been wondering about on my local hills looking for nice locations to take night pictures. I never took my big camera tonight as it was forecast rain. So I took my phone and the lightweight tripod. The phone surprised me as it seemed to realised it was in a tripod and started to taking 2-3 minute exposures automatically. It took 2 minutes, but the Exif data says otherwise! It was windy so there was a bit of movement, but I've now found a couple of vantage points to visit when clear with my camera.

Into the Gloom

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:06:55 +0000

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This was taken on Bank Hill above Dollar. I was climbing out of the cold fog into the sun and I passed these people descending into it.

The Cyclist

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:48:00 +0000

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Snow Line

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:06:01 +0000

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Ben Starav taken from Beinn Sgulaird

Amongst the Trees

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:41:08 +0000

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Wood Hill in the Ochil Hills is one of my favourite places as I find it beautiful to be there. It is very close to civilisation, but is mostly left undisturbed due to the stiff climb needed to reach it. I have taken so many pictures here that I've stopped going for the last few years. I need to go back though.

Crowded out

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:52:27 +0000

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Science at the beach.

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:52:16 +0000

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I visited Kingsbarns beach in Fife and a distant object caught my eye. It was the Inchcape (Bell Rock) lighthouse, and it could be seen clearly from were I parked my car at around 6 metres above the beach. I took this picture using my phone at 30x zoom.

The full lighthouse can be seen on this link: lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/listings/bell-rock-lighthouse

The lighthouse was so far out I wasn’t seeing all of it. Then when I went down to the beach, I could see only the top sticking up (see the PIP). A difference in height of 4-5 metres meant I was seeing a lot less of the tower.

So, I questioned Grok about this. Grok did the following calculation based on the above picture, knowing the lighthouse was 36m tall.
Formula: 3.57 × (√h₁ + √h₂)
• Your eye height on the bank: ≈ 6 m
• Visible height of lighthouse in the first photo: roughly the top 15–18 m (out of the full 36 m tower)
So √6 ≈ 2.45, √17 ≈ 4.1 → sum ≈ 6.55 3.57 × 6.55 ≈ 23.4 km.

So, from this picture, Grok had calculated a distance of 23.4km. I have checked the distance using OS maps; the distance was just short of 22km. I was impressed and these pictures show that view of the lighthouse, from this distant vantage point, is affected by the curve of the earth. There is no other explanation.

Winter Refuge

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:00:08 +0000

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Derwentwater

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:24:45 +0000

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I took this way back in 2013 as I wondered around this lovely place.

Wood Hill

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:46:55 +0000

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This is an old HDR picture that used five bracketed shots with Luminance HDR to tonemap and GIMP to finish. When shooting into the sun I used to also take a shot with my finger over the sun so I could mask out the lens flare. It's much easier to take pictures now!

Amongst the leaves

nobody@ipernity.com (Chris Bowness) — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:15:29 +0000

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There's some nice walks from Errol in Perthshire along the banks of the Tay Estuary. Here, every season is a gift.