Crowds gathered in Stirling to watch the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders march through the streets wearing the cap badge of their new regiment. They form the 5th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and they were accompanied by their regimental mascot, Cruachan the Third, a Shetland pony.
The world famous opera singer Adelina Patti lived in Craig-y-nos castle, South Wales and today it's considered to be Wales most haunted castle. After her death it was used as a TB sanatorium for children for nearly 40 years and it is claimed that the ghosts of many children who died there are still to be heard and seen. The place is the subject of an ongoing paranormal investigation.
Bonsai exhibition in Krakow's Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology. ( September 2006)
This museum was the pet project of the grand old man of Polish cinema, Andrzej Wajda and was opened in 1994.
Short film featuring coopers, men who make/re-cycle wooden barrels for whisky and wine, an ancient craft still practised in Scotland. One of the leading Cooperages is the Speyside Cooperage, an old family business.
Doune and Dunblane annual agricultural show with some entertaining footage taken in the main arena of a sheepdog herding ducks, stunt motorcylists and Pony Club games.
This video is a result of a week's residency in the Changing room gallery, Stirling, where I was one of 3 invited artists.
We were asked to make work in the public space of the gallery. I chose to work with members of the public in an interactive video/photographic project. This video is part of the final work.
These gardens were featured in a recent Beechgrove Garden BBC1 programme to celebrate the Gardens of Scotland's 75th anniversary of over 350 gardens opening for charity every year.
Stobo Castle was the first garden to open and these four gardens in Bridge of Allan are the latest to open under the scheme.
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