About

A Sassenach living on the north coast of Scotland in the county of Caithness. It is in many ways a landscape photographers heaven, and one could say that it is somewhat like being the proverbial "Child in a sweet shop".

I didn't seriously start taking photographs until I was in my late twenties, I only remember two earlier forays into the world of photography, my parents gave me a Kodak Brownie 127 when I was about 8, I think the novelty soon wore off, and it was discarded to the bottom of a draw. In the 1970s my brother bought a Olympus OM-1, this sparked off an interest in cameras, with a mixture of envy and a strong desire to own such a beautiful object. In the 1980s I purchased my first SLR camera, a Minolta X700, this being the beginning of a passion for photography.

My photography has evolved through the use of lots of film, learning to be self critical and the influence of other photographers. Through the 1980s and 1990s I went to as many photographic exhibitions as I could, the highlights of these exhibitions were Ansel Adams at the Barbican and Sebastian Salgado at the RPS in Bath. Other photographers that made a lasting impression at this time were Don McCullin, Fay Goodwin, Bill Brandt, Paul Strand and James Ravilious.

As my love for landscape photography has developed I have continued to derive inspiration from the work of other photographers, those that immediately spring to mind are Charlie Waite, David Ward, Colin Prior and Joe Cornish.

I started using digital techniques in 2001 with the purchase of a film scanner, a Canon compact was quickly added followed by the purchase of a Canon D60 in 2002. I now solely work with digital cameras, using Nikon DSLR's and a Panasonic Lumix compact camera.