SCOTLAND, THE SPIRIT AND THE LIGHT.
I made my first visit to the Highlands of Scotland in 2001, the same year that I started to take photography seriously. Standing high on the summit of Stob Dearg looking out over Rannoch Moor I felt a deep connection with the land at my feet and a need to be here on a more permanent basis.
The move to the West Coast of Scotland and to Large Format cameras in 2004 utterly changed not only my photography but my entire approach to the outdoors.
In todays hectic times we spend much of our time racing from one place to the next, fitting in as much as we can on the way with the promise that one day we will reward ourselves with much needed time out. The problem being that the down time is so scarse that we fill that too with as much as we can. I used to race up to Scotland and bag as many mountains as I could before returning exhausted to my day job. Now I am returning to many of these peaks to truly experience them for the first time. Connecting with the land in a way that I never did before. Returning again and again to a location, building a real sense of place that I hope my photographs portray.