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If you come to the Scotland, it isn’t hard to find people like these three wonderful ladies who swim in the sea all year round.   We’ve watched these brave ladies swimming in the Moray Firth in January and February when the weather in Scotland is hardly being kind to them.  I take my hat […]

This fine looking gentleman was the father of a good friend of mine.  Sadly, he is no longer with us.  He enjoyed a fascinating military career and always had a sparkle in his eye.  There was always a hint of mischief about him.  A fabulous sense of humour.

I know a lot of people feel that photograph images shouldn’t be tampered with and should come out of the camera as a finished product but, given we have the tools to do it, whey not so something different with the photographs to make them look more interesting.  This was originally a monochrome image of

I’ve always been a great fan of the photography work done by some of the great street photographers (Henri Cartier Bresson, Vivian Maier, Diane Arbus and so many more).  Without street photographers, a massive slice of our human history would be missing.  Christina Broom (28 December 1862 – 5 June 1939) was a British (Scottish!!!)

There’s something very special about portrait photography.  You catch a very brief moment of somebody’s life and that moment is there forever.   This photograph was taken in West African during the Ebola crisis.  These children had become orphans because their parents had died because of this dreadful disease.

Over the years, I have taken hundred of photographs of aircraft of one sort or another.   I try to bring the aircraft to life using all sorts of image editing techniques.   I often think that aircraft are like sculptures…works of art to be treasured. So much design work and engineering experience goes into

https://vimeo.com/1007686092?share=copy#t=0       This is my showreel video. If you navigate around the site (buttons at the top of this page), you’ll find plenty of the videos I have made.  If you would like me to make a video for you, then please contact me at info@rids.co.uk and I will do my best for

Welcome to my my first blog post for a long time.  I’m hoping to post a lot of images and video over the coming weeks, months and years.  I can’t remember where I took this photograph and my old camera did not have a GPS facility.  I know the photograph was taken at an aircraft