November in Scotland, usually cold and nasty, wet and yucky. However this time is was warm and fairly dry. On such a day I had a shoot with the ever lovely Keira Lavelle, so we took a chance on a well known and busy location at the Hermitage near Dunkeld. At first I intended to do mainly portrait with portable lighting, however as things turned out circumstances changed and we adapted accordingly. The main river that runs through the Hermitage is the River Braan and we used the rocks and the river as a backdrop..

There were far too members the public to do much more art nude…but we managed to snatch a cheeky couple of images anyway….

By this time the forest was extremely busy so went for some portraits as originally planned..

We did manage to find a very quiet spot for at least 4 minutes before someone unexpectedly happened upon us…

Then onwards to the hermitage itself….a solitary hovel than was allegedly a home for a holy man….a combination of rock and stone structure, dark and moody…

At this point we decided that we had scared the local population enough so we headed back to the car and drove (via the wine shop) to Port Allen reed beds…where we hardly saw a soul….

Sadly we spent far to long there and ended up way over time and by the time we got back it was quite dark indeed. I had promised Keira I’d take her to the local tea/coffee shop..but by the time we got there the shop had closed early due to Covid. A disappointment to be sure but I did post her some tea once I got back to the shop a couple of days later.

And so ended another photographic adventure, perhaps the locals have recovered from our visit!!

So still in the Covid 19 era, summer of 2021 nearly over, lockdowns of some form or other still in place. In fact it was September, still warm and still balmy. Just right for a remote indoor shoot! Elle Jones was someone I had never worked before, of course I had seen and admired her work but never crossed paths. So it was with great delight that I found she had taken up remote shoots, after a few message we worked out a plan!…a grand plan!..kinda like a grand piano but without the piano! And the plan started like this…..

Then we moved on to some three quarter length portrait type thingy ma bobs…

Then with some flower props in art nude….

Then adding some colour and a headpiece….starting off with some red!

…then green…..

Then to completely change things around we did some shots on the window sill, with lovely soft sunlight streaming through some lace to create a dreamy scene….

It was a productive shoot but very relaxed as Elle is lovely to work with, she is friendly and professional, keen and eager to create the desired scene. Highly recommended, and if you get the chance to take her up on a shoot, remote or overwise then I would have no hesitation in encouraging you to do so.