David Lintern Photography

26/08/2026

Dave Morris, who among dozens of other campaigns played a leading role in establishing Scotland’s Right to Roam, today in Kingussie. A lifetime of fascinating stories and a master strategist.

From the 2003 campaign:
“Access to nature should be a fundamental human right, recognised across the world and promoted by the United Nations. The Scottish right to roam legislation ensures citizens can access most of our land and water, lays obligations on land managers to facilitate this access and provides public bodies with duties to protect these rights.”

26/08/2026

Thanks to these two brainboxes for reminding me of some lightness after much heavy lifting. I’ll never be you, but I’m a small step closer to being me again.

06/08/2026

Orkney overlays

03/08/2026

a few new portraits on my website, for those who still enjoy such things:

Environmental portraiture and photo journalism work

02/08/2026

Orkney, part 2… including antics from ‘shopping week’, a freshly lime mortared Bothy, a brief meeting with Polish Highlander, plenty broch bothering and more location scouting for the Scotlandshire shortbread tin of the year award.

The old Arabic graffiti carved into the rock reads along the lines of “I sat here for 2 days and learned patience” - apparently by a spy.

01/08/2026

Photodump 1 of 2 from a trip across the sea to Orkney.

My first proper break from work for 3 years - no exaggeration. We’re not curing cancer, there are bigger problems in the world than publishing and I love helping to bring other people’s stories into the light a bit, but something really has to give. Orkney was a great dose of perspective - I expect the sea and sky and the in-your-face 6000 yr old history might have helped!

It was electric to be fully in the moment with cameras again, including the Mamiya - still not shown any of that here - it’s all the wee fixed Fuji (& 2 iphone). Doubt I’ll be troubling the tourist board with too many of these - oh well! Having looked over what I took I think there’s potential for something else, if the stars align - there’s a large number of images about a different side of the place I won’t be sharing for now.

09/07/2026

Nervous system regulation the old timey way: climb a damp and vegetated grade 2 as a recce for a winter climb, camp in the billowing clouds … en route to Munro 277, a Coe straggler.

06/07/2026

Two from an estate north of Inverness. An impressive if morbid array of fine trees collected and catalogued in the Victorian styley. It’s a strange but fascinating thing when a living space feels like a museum, or a graveyard. Geezer made his dollar in iron, coal and hematite mining apparently. The light spot was a happy processing accident - iPhone and snapseed.

27/06/2026

Today is PTSD Awareness Day.

When the callout comes in, our volunteers don't always know what they'll find.

Sometimes it's a straightforward rescue. Sometimes it's a life-changing injury. Sometimes it's delivering devastating news to a family, or recovering someone who didn't make it home.

Our volunteers choose to step into these situations because someone needs help. They do it to bring loved ones home from Scotland's mountains – sometimes in the most difficult circumstances imaginable.

While these incidents may last only hours, their impact can reach much longer.

On PTSD Awareness Day, we'd like to take the opportunity to highlight the importance of supporting the wellbeing of those who support others.

Over the past two years, Scottish Mountain Rescue has been working with the NHS Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress to deliver our Post Incident Support project. Available to every mountain rescue volunteer in Scotland, the service provides rapid access to specialist trauma clinicians following exposure to potentially traumatic incidents. It sits alongside our wider approach to volunteer wellbeing, which embeds personal resilience, peer support, and effective post-incident care throughout the full volunteer journey, from recruitment through to retirement.

Today's post is also an opportunity to remember David 'Heavy' Whalley, whose passion for the wellbeing of mountain rescue volunteers helped shape this journey. His legacy lives on in the support available to our teams today, ensuring that those who give so much to others know that help is there when they need it too. 💙

📸Image: Heavy at Ryvoan Bothy in 2022 by David Lintern Photography : https://www.davidlintern.com/

24/06/2026

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/24/were-the-highlands-ever-colonised-and-other-stupid-questions/

This is the transcript of a talk given by Dr Gemma Smith at the conference Community, Resistance and Resilience: Celebrating 50 Years of The Making of the Crofting Community, which took place at UH…