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Once finished the Mackenzie and Collie sculpture will become a glittering reminder that you can’t separate a landscape from the story of its people.
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When you focus on just one part of the ecosystem you realise that it has its own world to it.
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I went out for WWF with the scallop divers, trawler and creeler men of the Clyde Estuary to take portraits of them at work.
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These images reflect a stillness beneath the country’s characteristic colour and vibrancy.
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I have loved the Bolivian Altiplano (Highlands) ever since I first travelled there almost twenty years ago.
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This collection of small islands in the mid Atlantic (once the last stopping off point for mariners before they struck out for the New World) are not for the faint hearted....
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Inspired by our time spent living in South America my wife Fiona and I set up an artisan coffee roasting business in 2011. To research how coffee is produced and ensure that we are ethically sourcing our green beans I visited three farms with the specialist coffee merchants Mercanta. It was...
In November 2011 I traveled to Guatemala on a photographic field trip with development charity Mercy Corps to remote communities in the Alta Verapaz region of the country. I've never been to Guatemala before and was blown away by the diversity of its landscapes and people. Like so much of...
In the past two years I’ve been increasingly involved in outdoor event photography. It seemed the prefect chance to combine my favorite subjects, people and landscapes, in some of the most stunning locations in the UK. These events also fundraise for some great charities including Mercy Corps, ...
Winter in Glen Lyon starts as a whisper. Scurries of rain quicken their pace between the bens. The leaves on the big beeches catch the evening sunlight with a last brilliance before passing. I watch the swallows take their last pass under the eves before abandoning the skies to a...
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, March 2013
Tom Sampson’s farm in Angus, the Mains of Balgavies, doesn’t fit the rural romance of a Sunday newspaper feature on green farming. There are no beds of organic vegetables, free-range chickens or ‘happy pigs’ in a muddy field.Instead Tom’s yard is...
John Muir Trust Journal, Autumn 2012
There are few views of the Red and the Black Cuillin in Skye as spectacular as the one from the Sligachan Hotel. On a clear day you can scan the shattered peaks and ridges of this great mountain range before letting your eye follow the Sligachan river’s wide...
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, November 2012
Moss is everywhere in Scotland and yet most of us barely pay much attention to it. Take a walk in a woodland or moor and a spongy carpet yields under foot. It clings to the edges of burns and decorates trees and stones with a myriad of colour and pattern....
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, Spring 2012
Squeezed between a railway line and a timber yard in Grangemouth, the Jupiter Urban Wildlife Garden is an incongruous setting for a nature reserve. There is a constant rumble of traffic from the M9 motorway and petrochemical factories glint like silver space ships on the horizon. And yet in...
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, Winter 2011
Prof. Coope shows me into a small study crammed with the remains of animals that have roamed the area. The skull of a saber toothed tiger gathers dust next to a set of woolly mammoth teeth and the pelts of otters, fox and wildcat. At 81 years old his passion for...