Scottish gems

Graffito

Glasgow— drawn in a blanked-out window of the mansion block on Woodlands Road.

commando memorial grassmarket band loch Long dusk

 

Driesh summit Morning, noon and night (above): Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge on a soft October day; a sunny day and a hard band in Edinburgh's Grassmarket; the Faslane base lights sparkle over Loch Long in winter. Left, the other national sport— in October 2006, hundreds of hillwalkers converged on the summit of Driesh in Angus to mark Sir Hugh Munro's 150th anniversary.

 

On the Islay ferry waiting at Oban

Family life on the Oban-Colonsay-Islay boat; the world's finest departure lounge in Oban as the sailing from Mull, or perhaps Castlebay on Barra, comes in.