About

After training in still photography and film I specialised in photographing wildlife and landscapes for television programmes and in stills portraiture, mainly in black and white. 

My current work is mostly landscape photography, based around my home at Keills.

Living at Keills for almost thirty years has made me familiar with the ever-changing mood of Argyll’s coastal landscape, created by the shifting weather and sea, and by light reflected from the water and sky; from ominous and threatening to pastel-coloured calm. 

I started a long-term project two years ago, to highlight these moods by photographing the same scene repeatedly, using an unusually high-resolution camera (Canon 5DsR). 

I chose to focus on Carraig an Daimh, an island in the Sound of Jura, photographing the island from exactly the same spot with a fixed focal length, so it is the only part of the picture which remains the same while the light and weather change around it. 

The individual images are often attractive, but the strength of this ongoing series is when they are seen as a group. Juxtaposed like this, the images convey the feeling of a world in transition, where storms and beauty are close neighbours. Each day brings something new, so this project is still developing. 

Giclée ink on rag paper gives the prints a lovely matt quality and depth of tone and colour. The camera’s high resolution allows pictures to be printed as large as 30x30 inches. I intend to make a numbered series of single or limited edition prints of around this size and smaller.

This year, as an experiment, I have tried a new technique to photograph a little birch tree that grows near here.

I have visited this tree many times throughout the year, photographing it many times from slightly different positions each time. I merge these photographs to give a painterly effect. 

This growing series of images emphasises the changing colours of the tree and the landscape through the seasons.

I hope you like them!

Living at Keills, I am lucky enough to have some amazing wildlife as my neighbours. On my walk to photograph the island, I often come across otters, roe deer and incredible seabirds. I try to incorporate them into my images, or photograph them in their own right. 2024 is my first year exhibiting these images as a centrepiece.