Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Murray Star Maze, Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland. The maze was designed by international maze designer Adrian Fisher. Adrian born 5 August 1951, is a well-known maze and puzzle designer, responsible for more than 700 mazes in 35 countries since 1979. Fisher and his wife Marie are Directors of Adrian Fisher Design Ltd. Fisher has created 48 mirror mazes, and pioneered the extensive use of thematic chambers within mirror mazes, to achieve Mirror Maze Adventures. He has created 44 hedge mazes, and pioneered the use of Folly Towers, Tunnels, Walk-through Parting Waterfalls and Foaming Fountain Gates in mazes. He designed the world’s first cornfield maize maze in 1993 and over 400 since, and has set 7 Guinness World Records. He has created water mazes, most notably the award-winning Beatles Maze, and the Jersey Water Maze. He pioneered the genre of Path-in-Grass Mazes, and has created over a dozen around the world.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a Highland Cow, Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland. Highland cattle have an unusual double coat of hair. On the outside is the oily outer hair, the longest of any cattle breed, covering a downy undercoat. This makes them well suited to conditions in the Highlands, which have a high annual rainfall and sometimes very strong winds. Their skill in foraging for food allows them to survive in steep mountain areas where they both graze and eat plants that many other cattle avoid. They can dig through the snow with their horns to find buried plants.
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Tour Scotland photograph of a Peacock, Scone Palace, Perthshire, Scotland. The Peafowl include two Asiatic bird species, the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java, and one African species, the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin, of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies, known for the male's piercing call and, among the Asiatic species, his extravagant eye spotted tail covert feathers which he displays as part of a courtship ritual. The term peacock is properly reserved for the male; the female is known as a peahen, and the immature offspring are sometimes called peachicks.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
