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On Sunday, May 21, at the tail end of my recent Scotland trip, I led\u00a0a photo hike in Edinburgh with my friend\u00a0Lauren MacNeish.<\/p>\n
A travel and landscape\u00a0photographer from the area<\/a>, Lauren helped organize and promote the event, and she was kind enough to share her photos from our afternoon hike up Arthur’s Seat, a local 822-foot tall hill situated right in the city center.<\/p>\n With numerous trails and a fun summit, Arthur’s Seat provides excellent views of Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. It was the perfect location for a group of photographers to get outside, take in\u00a0the fresh Scottish air and enjoy some camera camaraderie. A true international gathering, we had a few local shooters, two other Americans two\u00a0people from India and a couple from Bulgaria. They both subscribe to my newsletter and had heard about the photo hike directly from me. The other people had signed up through the Eventbrite listing that Lauren had created to promote the hike.<\/p>\n I always enjoy meeting other photographers out in the world, especially people who are familiar with my work, who read my blog or follow me on social media. To me this is the best part about social media, and during my Scotland trip, I actually met a handful\u00a0of other friends and followers during my trip.<\/p>\n Lauren also works in the marketing department at SmugMug UK, and since I’m a longtime SmugMug user for my print store<\/a>, we loosely billed it as a SmugMug event.<\/p>\n I’ve always liked the features the SmugMug<\/a> offers for creating customizable galleries that allow for great presentation, as well as professional \u00a0services, like private galleries, right-click protection and a fully hosted shopping cart for selling prints, cards and other\u00a0photo gifts.<\/p>\n SmugMug has a Lightroom Plugin and they just released a standalone Mac OS App<\/a> that makes uploading, sorting and storing you photos even easier. (They also have a Windows app<\/a> as well.)<\/p>\n Check out Lauren’s website<\/a> to see more of her Scotland landscape photography, and more photos of our Arthur’s Seat hike<\/a>, and if you’d like to be\u00a0notified of my future events, check my upcoming events page<\/a>, or better yet, sign up for my newsletter.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n On Sunday, May 21, at the tail end of my recent Scotland trip, I led\u00a0a photo hike in Edinburgh with my friend\u00a0Lauren MacNeish. A travel and landscape\u00a0photographer from the area, Lauren helped organize and promote the event, and she was kind enough to share her photos from our afternoon hike up Arthur’s Seat, a local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[576,98,89,577,182,149,574,575,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19679,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions\/19679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arthurs-seat-smugmug-lm013.jpg\")
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The was my first international photo walk and\u00a0we had a lot of fun talking about photography, sharing travel stories and getting to know each other. In addition,\u00a0I got to meet two more of my regular readers in person. One was a local Edinburgh photographer and the other was from Southern California who happened to be there at the beginning of his own Highlands walking adventure.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arthurs-seat-smugmug-lm015.jpg\")
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