Landscapes

If you put ten photographers in the same environment at the same time of the day, you'll be bound to get ten quite different photographic representations of that environment.

To me, that's one of the attractions of landscape photography: it has the capacity to reveal as much about the photographer making the picture as it does about the landscape itself.

In my photographs I don't necessarily record landscapes as much as suggest moods and locations. I search for images that reveal formal beauty rather than grand designs and vistas.

What my images then say about me exactly I don't know! Perhaps that's for others to think about.

Portraits

Portrait photography remains one of the most difficult of the photographic genres, yet one of the most rewarding when you manage to catch that momentary glimpse of a personality — or even of a mood or gesture, however fleeting.

There is something deeply transcendent about fine portraiture, and the camera can convey that transcendency like no other art form because we know that the interaction between the photographer and the subject at that moment was real and not imagined or created. Conveying the sense and experience of that moment is the mark of great images.

Glimpses

The Glimpses gallery is a space for those pictures that don't sit comfortably in other more clearly defined genres, but which somehow reflect moments in time that define life.

There is nothing staged about these images: they are just things that I have seen and moments that I have recorded.

These images only reveal a fragment — a glimpse — of the time or the place in which they were taken.

Urban

Photographing the urban or built environment is not, for me, the opposite of landscape photography but an extension of it.

As with landscape photography, I still search for visually appealing compositions but I also try to catch just a suggestion of the life and activity that happens in the towns and cities that I visit.

Impressions

One way or another all photographs are an interpretation of the subject matter by the photographer.

This gallery is for those images whose level of interpretation has been extended and foregrounded by overt post-production techniques.

Project: Sleat

Sleat is an area of one of my favourite places in the world, the Isle of Skye. I visit this island whenever I can, and these images are some of many that I have made over time as part of a personal project to photograph this beautiful island.