This morning I discovered TheHighlands.com had been hacked to redirect to a Chinese porn site. As I’d not kept the site nor Wordpress updated I wasn’t really surprised but it serves as a valuable lesson to keep software updated.
To plug the gap I’ve replaced the entire site with my Gallery of Scottish Mountain Photography.
Promotional card for the ScotlandIS ‘Naturally Cool’ campaign using my image of Loch Morlich:
The snowy scape awaiting Leith this morning was a parade of inscribed windscreens. Found eight examples, but suspect there could have been more. Very funny it was too, I applaud the artist.
The Grey Corries – the Munros of Stob Ban, Stob Choire Claurigh and Stob Coire an Laoigh on a superb winter’s day in the Scottish Highlands.
Have just launched online booking for Skinny Tyres using the Wordpress E-Commerce plug-in. It comes will a reasonable set of configurable options meaning it can be pressed into a variety of uses. By default it integrates with PayPal and Google Checkout, but for a fee of about $200 it can be tied in with other payment gateways such as Sage Pay. Will be monitoring its usability before unrolling onto other sites.
Launched this week is Avon’s ‘Win a Mortgage‘ competition site. Project Managed for Maglabs and developed by Fresh Monkey participants with both parts of a prize code can check to see if they have won their mortgage (for a year), a second prizes worth £1000 or a variety of promotional vouchers.
Delivered on time and to budget it has exceeded the client’s expectation and is an illustration of how all projects could be.
Mountain Bothies Association 2010 calendar has just gone on sale, costing just £4 (inc p&p) it features 14 different bothies – including 2 of my images:
It’s available through the MBA website, with all funds going to support simple shelters in the highlands.
Men's Fitness - November 2009
This month’s Men’s Fitness magazine features one of my images from Knoydart. Druim a’ Choire Odhair and Barrisdale Bay shot from the top of Ladhar Bheinn used over two pages to illustrate one of the best wild walks in the country (p 58/59 in case you are looking for it). The route was described by Stevie Christie of Wilderness Jounrneys and director of the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival. Small world indeed!
The Department of Health is running a Consultation to ask people whether medical herbalists should be regulated, or not. This will have important consequences in determining whether (or not) you and your family can access herbal medicine in the future! Act Now as the deadline is 30 October 2009.
Yesterday I attended a Cycle Leader Training course at The Bike Station. Organised by Greener Leith the aim is to start running adult cycling proficiency and Sunday rides in and around Leith to promote and encourage more cycling.
