I've not been posting many of my newspaper photos recently so I thought I'd do a quick round-up of some favourites from the last few weeks. These aren't necessarily my best work and in some cases it was even a different frame that ran in the paper, but these are the ones that I like for a variety of reasons.

These first four pictures all feature Alness rock band Catching Amy. These guys were a real pleasure to work with and I think we produced some pretty good, eye-catching images. These were done for the Ross-shire Journal to promote the band's upcoming gig at the Strathpeffer Pavilion supporting Led Zeppelin tribute band Whole Lotta Led on 16 August. All four photos (and several more) were done on stage at the Pavilion, using just a black background and two lights.

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The photos below are, from top left: Patricia Jamieson who appeared on TV game show Countdown (North Star); outdoor theatre company Illyria (Ross-shire Journal); Amanda Hughes, a successful motorsports competitor who was allegedly suspended from her job at a car rental company because she was typing with one hand (Press & Journal); Ewen and Lorraine Mann with their 12-metre wind turbine (North Star); Ally and Josie, this year's Dingwall gala girls (North Star); rock band Goths in Denial (Ross-shire Journal); children taking part in a pottery painting event (North Star); councillor Alasdair Rhind with unsold copies of someone else's book that he controversially gave away to exhibitors at the Tain car rally (Press & Journal); Niall Harkiss of Tain Thistle football club with an accordion that was donated as a raffle prize (Ross-shire Journal); some of the Highland dancers and musicians who performed for passengers on the Eurodam cruise ship (Ross-shire Journal); Ross County vs Crawley Town (North Star); councillor Alan Torrance at a petrol station for an article about how a tank of petrol now costs more than his first car (Press & Journal); and the first good view for many years of the old street that runs under the modern Tain high street (Press & Journal).

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