Video is something I'm slowly gaining experience with. Below is my recent video. 
The Perthshire Visual Arts Forum of which I'm on the committee invited Claire Cooper to give a talk, so a good opportunity to make a video, albeit rather static. The main point however in this case was getting more experience with the audio side of things. There are numerous other aspects I've still to deal with and get my head around, including titles and credits but that requires software that will have to wait for now.
Another two videos I made for PVAF can be found; Here.

I'm in the process of re styling, updating and collating my zoomable panoramas. I've made several of these over the past year or so and really enjoy the way one can zoom in and explore in relative detail a landscape. 
I'll announce when the full index is ready but here is one to let you see: Here. (or click on image). See if you can spot the plane over Glasgow coming into land at Glasgow airport. This panorama was commissioned by Forestry Commission (Scotland).

More zoomable's will slowly be added in between more straight panoramas. I'm also in the process of updating the software that will allow better styling of the pano interface.

Though overcast it was a lovely wintery scene up in Strathardle and beyond, this Sunday past.

Two images from a local small loch.

Just a nice small tree up by Pitmiddle deserted village on the Sidlaw Hills, Dundee in the background.
This was a quick experiment to hand hold and then stitch from 50 images, far more than needed but I wished to make sure every element was covered. I was too close to capture the entire tree with my favourite 45mm lens.
The resultant file prior to downsizing was 483Mbs, 60inches @ 300dpi. It stitched very well with only a couple of small elements (some branches) needing masked to prevent misalignment, something even the best software can struggle with.

Last fruit of the year. Monorgan orchard a week or so ago. Others added to bottom of gallery,  here.

Quite a bit of wet snow fell this morning and a little more in the afternoon. Our first major snow fall, just a day away from Winter proper. A93 closed at Spittal of Glenshee, unsurprisingly.

A new zoomable panorama uploaded; Here to view or click on image, opens in a separate window.
This panorama shows the current Drumderg wind farm of 16 turbines with land to the east (right) showing two wind monitoring masts, anticipating planning consent for yet more turbines, that will stretch right across this panorama.
Drumderg can be seen over a considerably wide radius and even clearly from the far side of Perth, to the south west, nearly thirty miles away as the turbines are in such a prominent position within the Perthshire/Angus landscape. Yet more turbines would dominate the distant and near landscape considerably and detrimentally more. There have been many high profile objections, more details, here.

The panorama is from a low hill that has an extremely nice four poster (a type of stone circle), details here, note, it now has a fence around it.

For the panorama once opened in a new window, toggle the 'full screen' view button, bottom right and you can click on the image to zoom in, arrow keys to scroll left, right, up and down. Use - Shift key to zoom in, CTRL key to zoom out. Note; it's sometimes better looking when not fully zoomed into. 

Despite having a heavy cold my anxiety of not getting to cover some autumnal elements of the orchards was too much and I made for the orchard at Grange. The weather had a small window of brightness but with more bad weather forecast. Only opportunity I would have for some time without having to resort to overtly moody shots, that I don't want. It was rather wet and boggy underfoot but exciting possibilities. I came back via the trees at Craigdallie (top right, bottom right). Some ok images, many to still look at.

A very nice mixed exhibition of Perthshire Visual Arts Forum members at Birnam came down yesterday. I exhibited two works that were on the theme loosely of '10'. Framed they are 10x10 inches. Subject wise the tree is a multi layer of 10 months in the life of a tree I photographed throughout 2014. The sky image was shot on the Isle of Rum last October (tenth month) with text by John Berger; The deeper the experience of a moment, the greater the accumulation of experience. I made a set of images of sky during one day while on Rum, not all lovely blue.
Both images printed very nicely with a lovely softness that I liked. The tree is an edition of ten, signed, numbered, unmounted. £40 inc p&p. 

A quiet month photographically. Orchard project continues of course, busy on other matters and another month of variable weather, though latter generally not bad for this time of year. Autumn colours are of course marvellous, a primal magic of leaves turning into gold.
Here are just a few loose images from the latter part of the month, I love the top left image in particular:

It was with great sadness that Aase after a short illness passed away on the 28 September 2015.
Aase had a tremendous enthusiasm for life, people and photography. Her photography for which she had numerous exhibitions in the UK and abroad, winner of the Richard Hough award, her various documentary projects archived and never a day went by without shooting numerous photographs. That enthusiasm was passed on selflessly to many others. To the very end, even while in hospital and latterly her brief stay (it was anticipated she would get back home) in a hospice, she continued to photograph and encouraged others in their own endeavours.
She will be greatly missed and never forgotten by those who knew her. Her images are however the true legacy.

Moredun Top* hillfort is just to the South East of Perth and commands an amazing view. You can see why it was such a strategic location and as a hillfort was so important over a period of time, encompassing numerous changes and several phases of ramparts. Of course if you remove the commercial woodland on the hill the view would be even better. Tay Landscape Partnership, along with AOC archaeology have been carrying out an archaeological dig, opening up several trenches (not all visible on panorama), principally across the substantial defensive walls and possible broch.

This quick 360 degree panorama (link or click on image) gives a good indication of the forts strategic location, looking down the Firth of Tay to the East, Sidlaw Hills with their own numerous hill forts to the North and the Lomonds to the South, Strathearn to the West.

*Moredun Top is generally incorrectly referred to as Moncrieff Hill by Perth people though that hill is actually just slightly to the west and lower. It also has a hillfort or enclosed walled top to it, excavated earlier in the year.

For the panorama toggle the 'full screen' view button, bottom right and you can click on the image to zoom in, arrow keys to scroll left, right, up and down. Use - Shift key to zoom in, CTRL key to zoom out.

One of my favourite pictures that I own is a small etching by a German artist called Richard Bloos, 1878 - 1957. For many years I thought his name was Richard Bloo (see signature) and my internet searches went unresolved. However the other evening I did another search, with a few variations to his name and finally found information on the artist. Particularly useful was a website called Artist Search that I found via Google. This eventually led to an excellent site called Artnet and their own resources and connection to information. I finally found what I was looking for, firstly confirmation of his name and signature and secondly further examples of his work. These can be found HERE with many of his paintings and etchings that had gone to auction. Success !
Why do I like this image so much. I'm not exactly a fan of performing animals beyond sheep dogs in action, certainly not as entertainment portrayed. Its the expression of wonder and dismay (?) of the white dog on the left that touches me so. The face of the dog is so brilliantly drawn with just a few lines and is almost human like. 
Looking at Bloos work it seems he had an enthusiasm for many subjects but principally street and people scenes. I did also discover another lovely etching of a dog so they obviously were part of his interest and life. If it wasn't for the internet I wouldn't have discovered more on this wonderful artist who I'm pleased to connect more fully with.