Background edit
I live in Dumfries Scotland. I am a retired art teacher having specialized in History of Art at Edinburgh University (1962 -68) - Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance Art - in the days of David Talbot Rice and Giles Robertson. Concurrently I studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art (1963 - 68) - Sir William Gillies was still there when I started. It is only in retrospect that I appreciate that I was living at the end of an era with these guys. I took the double degree of MA (hons) Fine Art jointly from these institutions and this joint degree course is still available.
Hill walking web site edit
Since I retired I have gone back into hill walking regularly - I did some rock climbing when I was in my teens - and I have combined this interest with my interest in photography and web construction to build a web site on hill walking in south west Scotland. This has grown and developed steadily since I started with it in 1999 and it now runs to just under 250 mb. I originally thought I was writing for hill walkers who would use the routes I was illustrating; however I soon realized that people from all over the world, who would probably never ever be here, were visiting the site for images and information about this part of Scotland and so I began to build something of historical and cultural context into the pages. You can see what I mean at walkscotland.plus.com
Intentions edit
I noticed that there were many holes in Wikipedia with reference to hill ranges and individual hills in my part of the world and I would like to try to do something about this.