One never knows what opportunities for photography one will encounter on a trip.

I went to Scotland hoping to find wonderful landscapes but ran across some other opportunities.

For example, this shot of a Red Deer Stag:

And this shot of a snow monkey!

And this unexpected shot of a Boat House at Loch Stack complete with a rainbow!

And, this shot found on a forest floor:

And, last, another shot from the forest floor.

Bet you can’t tell which ones were taken with the Canon 1Ds Mark II and which ones were shot with the Canon Powershot G9?

What this trip taught me is to always keep a camera handy, the lesson being that the journey itself is just as important as the destination, and that discovery is everywhere, often in unexpected places and times.