A Walk along Scolty Hills Aberdeen

Scotland is well-known for its nature, mountains, outdoor sports, skiing and unpredictable weather. Scottish culture is very indifferent from the English, Kilt costumes, music, highland dancing are few which is commonly known to many in foreign lands. The outdoor nature beauty is not known to many unless they have step foot into Scotland.

I spend a one of the very first few sunny days in 2010 in Scolty Hills which is located in a claimed 'Posh' area of Aberdeenshire, Banchory.

Scotly is indeed a very quite place, fresh air and surprisingly insect free as well.

Well this is also my first day out with my Brand new Canon Eos 50D. Yes I have converted to Canon now and have left my faithful Nikon D40 after 2 years!! More reviews to come after!

Scolty Tower. Its a 20 minute walk from the very bottom of the hill for  a person with terrible fitness like myself

A distant mountain. TO be honest i have yet to find out the name.

Surprisingly I found some young vibrant university students here on  a Saturday afternoon. I suppose for peace and tranqulity.

Direction dial explaining the location in the distance

Another lady here for peace and tranquillity. I don't think its her dog, however he seems to be absorbed into the distant beauty.

Kid sulking after his dad told him off for making too much trouble up on the Scolty tower.

A view through the stone walls of the tower.

A bright beautiful day 

People actually cycle up these hills! Scottish are very healty bunch of people!

This reminds me of a Movie poster and also my favourite picture!

Stone walls claiming private property of a farm boundary

This is strange colouring which I dint realise when i was there. A solitary tree and a rock in a distant

Sign of Scottish Spring 2010

Nature at its best!

I enjoyed my day and walk. I guess life away from my PS3 is not so bad afterall!

Panorama Feel to Rome

Sometimes its difficult to describe how Huge Rome can be. Summer in Rome with a Gelato in your hands are simply a perfect way to walk around. This pictures are for those who are considering visiting Rome one day!

Pictures are captured with my kit lens from Nikon D40 and stitch with a programme called 'PhotoStich'.
Basically I took burst continuous shots and span the camera left to right to capture the shots. One picture maybe a combination of 9-10 pictures and stitched together using the programme 'Photostich' automatically

ENjoy! Click for larger picture.

Inside the Colosseum 

Grounds of the Colosseum

Top view of the Roman Ruins

Daytime view of the Famous Trevi Fountain

Rome the Beginning

Modern day Italy is filled with Football, Fashion, Beautiful people, brilliant weather and birht place of Pizza. That is a common perception for who have not been to Italy yet. Rome the beautiful capital of a nation once ruled by Julius Ceasar have left an incredible amount of history and culture behind.

Rome is a beautiful city which you would need to spend at least 3-4 days minimum to explore and not more than a week. There are many hot spots like 'Spanish Step ', 'Ruins' and 'Vatican City' which you could easily spend a day there. And some places like 'Trevi Fountain' and 'Piazza Navano' which you would definitely visit at least twice (day and night).

Italy's architecture and vivid colour makes it a photographers heaven to visit. You simply cannot put your camera down if you're in any of their hot spot. Rome is so crowded and picture taking of the crowd can be quite entertaining. You can simply see and meet people from all over the world. Everyone have one attitute in common. Laid-back & Relax!

All my photo are taken by my D40 with kit lens, which is light and easy to travel with. 90% of the picture are taken with auto mode. Only thing i needed to tweak is flash on or off.
Enjoy the pictures!

A Typical Street in Rome. Adventurous colours for a building.

The Colosseum. Its a must to go in. Being inside and outside is simply breadth taking. 

The walk towards the Colosseum is simply remarkable. Most of the time you would stand and look around.

One of the three brides we met walking around the Ruins of Ancient Rome

The Pantheon, which Robert Langdon (Da Vinci Code) reckons there was a clue inside.

Cant Remember the name of this building.

Fountains provides fresh drinking water for everyone. This one just outside the Spanish Steps

Inside the amazing Vatican Cathedral. Once you've been inside, there is no other Cathedral better.