Photography is often an excuse for just being outside, exploring and finding new places. Sometimes a nice photograph is a bonus to the main event of gently wandering around the countryside. Here is the result of an extremely enjoyable outing with my pal Paddy, finding another lone tree on rock composition that is full of drama and feeling.

Revisiting a beautiful spot in the Torrin area, I try a different composition of a scene that I have shot before. Overnight snow highlighted the mountains, and salt on the road brightened it up as a good lead-in.

In this post I revisit a favourite location in Glen Brittle to get some drama that I missed in a shot from two years before. I’ll also describe how small changes in position or settings can make big differences to the end result.

A short post on the importance of having an open mind to let creativity flow. This was the agenda for an afternoon of gentle monochrome photography on the Sleat peninsula in the Isle of Skye.

It is extremely nerve wracking for me when my book gets into the hands of real people who have paid proper money for it. Turns out I needn’t have worried! Here are some quotes from happy Glas readers from New Zealand to Denmark to the UK and beyond.

Recounting “borrowing” a rather nice helicopter for a shoot involving remote radio-triggered flashes. Would everything work? This was one of the most fun and exciting shoots I’ve been involved in.

The latest update on my quest for creating compelling impressionistic photography. In this post I bring some new images from London, and some new lessons learned about the compositing technique I am using on my Ricoh GR3x HDF.

Finally, after seventeen years of work, I have started deliveries of Glas to Kickstarter backers here in Skye. There is still much to do, but it is brilliant to have the fruits of my efforts in the hands of my fantastic, intelligent and beautiful customers.

Glas is finally here. All 75 copies of the extremely limited edition have been delivered to Skye. Here’s the latest update and what’s next as I approach despatch to all my supporters.

Florence. Beautiful, stunning, inspiring. And packed to the gills with so many tourists, even in the shoulder-season with the kids back at school. In this article I use my in-camera composite technique to portray how Florence feels as it labours under the unremitting press of over-tourism.

A brilliant day of photography as autumnal weather brings fantastic conditions. Starting in Sleat and immediately distracted by the epic scene across to the mainland, and then moving on to the Torrin area which is so full of opportunity. Join me and my Leica Q3 for a day out in Skye’s beautiful landscape.

I visit a favourite location that is at its best for less than two weeks every year. It is a beautiful scene, down in a tricky gorge, festooned with autumn colour. With most of the leaves blown off the trees in the recent storms, the trees down in these little valleys have been protected from the gales and have had a chance to give us all a beautiful show for my Leica Q3 and Sony A7III with Mitakon 50mm f/0.95.

The mighty HP Indigo offset printer at Page Bros in Norwich has roared into action, printing Glas and its accompanying Photography Index. Not long now…

Creating a book like Glas is a huge mission in itself. In this second part of the Glas backstory I describe some of my photographic history, methods, and motivation for embarking on this seventeen-year project.

I forgot that I won the Urban Photographer Of The Year in 2007 with this image. Here’s a short backstory for you to enjoy,

Part one of a two-part backstory of Glas. In this first part I cover the philosophy and thinking behind the book, a seventeen year photographic epic of the Isle of Skye. In the second part I’ll describe the photographic process itself, and the many trials and challenges along the way.

I am pre-orders launching my new book, “Glas” on Kickstarter on the 15th of August. Here I’ll share what I have learned about preparing a Kickstarter campaign.

Let’s face it, London sucks. Too many people, too much traffic, too loud, too expensive. But it is a great place for photography. Today’s self-inflicted challenge was to photograph it in a different way that captured the uniqueness and feeling of London, but without the typical street-photography vibe.

I didn’t think this would ever happen here, but I had to abort a very nice photography session here in Skye due to heat haze. I wanted to re-shoot a particular scene for my new book, Glas, but things didn’t quite go to plan.