Another page in my Dumfries Diaries project – Todd Various of a highly acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe group, Let’s Circus,  brought his act to the town’s High Street. His lively and entertaining performance was part of In Our Town two-month event programme commissioned by the council to boost the town centre…

This year I had a pleasure of experiencing a picturesque Quid Nychburris ( Good Neighbours) Festival for the first time. It’s the main pageant of the year celebrating Dumfries’ status of a Royal Burgh granted to its community by King Robert III in 1186. Quid Nychburris bristles with distinctive traditional…

When John and I decided to attend Guid Nychburris (Good Neighbours) festival that celebrated the 1395 Royal Charter for the Burgh of Dumfries I was anticipating a medieval-style pageant and the horse ride and John, being a sociologist, was thinking of a much publicised Dumfries Charter 14 by the Stove…

Nothing immerses one more into the spirit of the place like public celebrations. Universal good mood, loud cheers, big smiles, flag waiving, public performances, kids’ antics and, of course, quaint local traditional touches – all  were present at the Queen’s Baton Relay for Commonwealth games arrival in Dumfries. I couldn’t…

I photographed these views of the River Nith near Kingholm Quay during May thunderstorms – when brief sunlight spells were sandwiched between heavy rain and bouts of hail – but forgot to publish them on my blog. Catching up! It almost shocks me that I can see the light hitting the…

Sporopollen is an outdoor performance art show by Oceanallover that John and I attended last weekend as part of Dumfries & Galloway Art Festival. Blending sound, physical theatre and the environment, the show took a form of an interactive carnivalesque procession along the banks of the River Nith near Robert Burns Centre. The show is…

Remember how, upon observing me photographing some cherry blossom on our street, our neighbour advised me to visit the Crichton gardens in Dumfries later in the spring to enjoy more flowers in bloom? At the weekend, after a day of non-stop rain and us stuck in the house the sky cleared and…

Eye-catching, amazing, weird – these attributes spring to mind while viewing the larger-than-life photographs of the living creatures that emit light in nature. Squid that excretes luminescent clouds to distract predators, marine plankton that sparkle like a starry night, fluorescent jellyfish whose cells are used in advanced medical research, fireflies…

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition was on at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and naturally, as a portrait photographer I tagged along with John on one of his project interviews in Edinburgh. When I mention this to my mum on Skype she asked me to take some pictures…

After a long refurbishment the revitalised Dock Park in Dumfries has finally opened to public. To celebrate the launch the whole two weeks of activities – music performances, face painting and storytelling, orienteering and balance bike training and many others – were scheduled to lure the visitors. I was tempted…

Don’t believe the weather lore! ‘Red sky at night; shepherds delight, Red sky in the morning; shepherds warning.’ I saw a lovely warm light descending on Kingholm Quay on Wednesday afternoon and hurried down the road with my camera to capture the banks of the River Nith and the harbour…

Last week’s story about Glasgow street art continues with my black and white Glasgow street photography series. Whenever I arrive to a new city I arm myself with a street map not to get lost and a camera – this way I do have any preconceived ideas what to photograph…