Scotland – Graeme Skinner

Samye Ling

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:24:03 +0000

A few photos from our trip to Samye Ling, though I have to start with the photo of Julie finding the statue of me…

Killantringan Lighthouse

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:50:40 +0000

Last year we visited Killantringan Lighthouse and I took a few snaps intending to use one as a reference for a painting. Then I forgot all about it, well, you know how it goes, things get in the way anyway, as I was selecting the subject for a new painting at the weekend I was browsing through some photographs and I noticed the lighthouse, so…..

Killantringan Lighthouse 54x34cm Watercolour on board

It’s full of stars…

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:53:37 +0000

On our trip over the border we were lucky enough to have a couple of nights where the sky was amazing clear, it would have been wrong not to take a couple of photographs

Back over the border

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 27 May 2019 15:49:33 +0000

We decided to return to New England Bay caravan club site for a week away as we’d enjoyed our visit last year. The weather was exceptional and the light made it difficult to put the camera down

Machair Ghallghaidhealaibh

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:58:23 +0000

Our second day out from the caravan by Luce Bay and we headed to Machars in search of standing stones and a few more beaches to wander on. The first stop (after the beach) was the Drumtroddan Standing Stones.

We then went to look for St. Ninian’s Church at the Isle of Whithorn, saw the memorial to the crew of the Solway Harvester and yes, wandered on a beach.

Na Rannaibh

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:49:08 +0000

Our first day in Scotland started nice and early (thanks to Hugo pestering us to go out), so we had a wander on the beach as the Sun slowly mades it way above the horizon.

Wander over and we had a nice breakfast looking out over Luce Bay and decided to have a drive around the Rhins of Galloway. Our first stop was the Mull of Galloway lighthouse, the wind had picked up by this point and the clouds kept changing rapidly.

I hadn’t realised that we were almost halfway between Lands End and John O’Groats.

The view looking away from the lighthouse was excellent, and I took quite a few photographs for reference.

We then made our way slowly to Portpatrick, then onto Port Logan stopping every now and then to wander on a beach and watch the waves crashing over the rocks.