SilvaScienta

The first video of my Crash Course QGIS series is now live! Starting A new Project Google Earth / Bing Map Satellite Imagery Setting Project Datum/CRS Setting & Moving Between Spatial Bookmarks Measuring Distances & Areas Custom User Profiles youtu.be/x94l7qCGbn4 🗺🌐💻

This week I've been experimenting with some older harvesting footage I took back in September - I didn't realise the amount of information that can be relayed through video & video effects. 🌲🪓🎥 #forest #forestry #logging #timber #tree #trees #lumber #forester #design

Rainclouds rolling in from the mountains; an ocean of mist sits throughout the valley. This peak of this hill sits 220m above sea level - a restock site in the clouds ⛰ 🌫⛰ @VisitCrieff #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews @scotland

What could have been a larch stand has begun to give way to sitka regeneration. Larch provides moderate shade to forest floors, allowing light to penetrate the canopy beneath. If left unchecked he Sitka will shade out the larch and dominate this section of the woodland. 🌲🌱🌲

Dormant larch needles shimmer like gold in the swaying treetops of the Galloway Forest Park. Working in the Scottish Forestry sector has some incredible perks not mentioned in the job description! 🌤🌲 #forest #forestry #logging #timber #tree #trees #lumber #forester

Like yin & yang, river & rail, untethered chaos & meticulous order slice through a sleepy valley forest. 🚄🍂🌊 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland #autumn #fall #forest

Swirling hidden eddy currents are revealed as red & orange autumn leaves fall from the trees and drift along the river 🌀🍂🌳 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

Lichen emerges in the canopy of this tree as autumn makes the leaves fall. Deciduous trees go dormant over winter but their surface remains productive for epiphytes. Lichen & moss are bio-indicators of air quality and can be found abundantly where the air is least polluted.

An autumnal flight over the hills of Scotland and a 360 panorama test turned into a tiny planet experiment. I'm thinking a trip into the mountains and another panorama 🤔🍂 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

To live a moment in infinity is such a beautiful gift; we exist in a universe frozen in time. The stars will stay in place as long as we live, the landscape unchanged as we breathe. ⛰🍂🌳  @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

We hide in boxes of concrete, plastic and glass. We illuminate ourselves with light from rectangles & squares. Man came down from the trees and left the #forest at the dawn of humanity. While man left the forest, the forest never left us. 🌲🧬🌳

What's the benchmark for classifying species as non-native? 500 years? 1000? If there is no actual benchmark then it becomes a matter of subjective opinion since all species originated elsewhere before we classified their natural habitat as the place we first found them. 🌲🌳🍂

The cold draws out Autumnal colours in this birch tree. Like the encore of a symphony, a final display of beauty before dormancy. 🍂 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

Catching the sun cast her last rays as rolling stormclouds mask her shine 🌤⛈ #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

Autumn weaves its magic through the forest canopy, soon only the evergreens will hold their leaves. Crown shyness sends cracks through the treetops, making each tree look like a colour burst 🍂🌲🌳 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews

Crumbling silently, refusing the fall. Roots rips apart mortar, wind & rain weather brick. This mansion stands in defiance of natures reclaimation. 🌳🏚🌳 #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

I don't know much but I've been around long enough to know underneath this house is the batcave 🏚🦇

Out today with the bird grabbing test footage & urban exploring abandoned mansions 🏰🦅

Morning mist rolls over houses and homes in #Dollar 🌫🌬🏡 @ClacksCouncil @DiscoverClacks #outandaboutscotland @scotsmagazine @mvscotland @visitscot @visitscotnews #scotlandisnow @scotland

It's my goal to turn the fractured forest landscape of #britan into a network of commercial, agro & rewilded #forests. It's going to take an insane amount of work but I know it's possible. I think the key is making forests more short-term economically viable than pasture. 🌲🌤