Green Light Images

Winter in Scotland

Meadows

The Meadows

Autumn leaves add colour to an early winter snowy scene in The Meadows, Edinburgh.
Icy leaves

Frozen leaf litter

Beech leaves with ice crystals picking out the veins and leaf edges. Romanno Bridge in the Scottish Borders.
Pastels

Pastel colours

Snow and ice has created a soft colour palette in this landscape near Leadburn, Midlothian.
60's ice

Ice of '60's

Actually photographed in 2012, but the shapes of the ice formations on this puddle in a field at Romanno Bridge reminded me of designs of the 1960s.
Milkieston Hill

Milkieston Hill

A warm glow settled on Milkieston Hill as late afternoon approached. View from near Eddleston in the Scottish Borders.
Escher ice

Escher ice

A close look at ice on a window pane revealed these barb-like crystal growths. They appear very three dimensional from the way the crystal faces interact with the incident light.
Frosted holly

Rime on Holly leaves

The ice on the leaf margins makes this look like a variegated cultivar of Holly. Hedge at Romanno Bridge in the Scottish Borders.
The Links

Freezing fog on The Links

The snow and foggy conditions produced and old-world feeling to this scene in south Edinburgh.
Sledging

Sledging at The Links

Children enjoying the gentle snowy slopes at The Links, Edinburgh.
Ice fans

Icy crystals

These small ice crystal columns are comprised of half-hexagons which became larger with each successive crystal deposition. This image has been digitally resampled to twice the capture resolution.
Holly berries

Variegated Holly

The Holly cultivar here is Ilex aquifolium 'Aureo-marginata'.
Reeds

Common Reed

Phragmites communis on the frozen marsh called Black Springs, at the foot of the Pentland Hills near Balerno, Edinburgh.
Iced stalks

Ice on stalks

Low temperatures and humid air in still conditions, allowed the formation of these columnar crystals on vegetation emerging from the surface of a frozen flooded field. Romanno Bridge in the Scottish Borders.
Acanthus ice

Acanthus-leaf ice

Beautiful ice crystal formations often form on damp glass, like these resembling Acanthus leaves, photographed in Edinburgh.
Japanese Maple

Japanese Maple on ice

Leaves of an Acer palmatum cultivar in autumn colouration contrast strongly with the snow they're sitting on. In the City of Edinburgh.
Icy fingers

Ice on ice

On this frozen flooded field, various ice crystal formations had formed, some comprising crystals whose edges were picked out by further smaller ice crystals.
Edinburgh fair

Edinburgh Christmas fair

A number of individual frames were blended (using ImageFuser) to produce the motion blur effect seen here.
Edinburgh shows

Edinburgh amusements

A long exposure capture has created a very dynamic feel to the fairground attractions in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.