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26/08/2026

I wasn't chasing anything dramatic that evening at Lake Apopka. No storm, no golden hour spectacle. Just a low horizon, a soft sky, and the kind of stillness that asks you to stop and pay attention.

It wasn't until I was back home, sitting with the image, that I noticed it. A Florida alligator, moving silently across the far edge of the frame. Unhurried. Unannounced. Completely at ease in a scene that had appeared, on the surface, to be perfectly still.

See if you can spot it.

The full story is on the blog, and the print is in the store.

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23/08/2026

Step into the story behind this image: Fog and Stone at Neist Point

Neist Point lighthouse seen through clearing fog, with dramatic cliffs and calm Atlantic water below. A fine art landscape print from the Isle of Skye.

23/08/2026

August 22, 2026

Playalinda Beach, Florida

After a couple of weeks photographing Scotland, lugging around a heavy backpack and tripod, it was nice to travel a little lighter this weekend and capture some coastal images.

Taken from the beach looking back towards the sand dunes, this simple scene caught my eye as the sea oats swayed in the breeze beneath the towering clouds. I love the contrast between the deep blue and white of the sky, the lush green dune grasses and the golden stems of the sea oats. Sometimes the simplest compositions are the most rewarding.

Leica Q3 28mm.

21/08/2026

August 10, 2026

Glen Etive, Glencoe, Scotland.

When you visit the Scottish Highlands in summer, and Glencoe in particular, you expect dark clouds, brooding skies and the constant threat of rain. On this visit, Scotland had other ideas, deep blue skies and fluffy white clouds, with none of the drama I would normally associate with Glencoe.

Looking along the River Coupall towards Buachaille Etive Mòr, the scene almost doesn’t look real. The intense blue of the sky, vivid green foliage and patches of purple heather give the landscape an incredible richness of color. A long exposure has smoothed the water until it almost looks like ice, while still allowing the rocks beneath the surface to show through.

Hasselblad X2D with 38mm Lens and 10 Stop ND Polarizer.

19/08/2026

I grew up in Scotland. Coming back to photograph it is always different from going somewhere new. You are not discovering the landscape. You already know how it feels.

This was a grey July afternoon in Glencoe, beneath Buachaille Etive Mòr. No dramatic light, no clear skies. Just cloud sitting low over the valley and that particular green that I have never seen anywhere else on earth. When I moved lower to include the stream, a small white cottage appeared at the foot of the mountain. That single detail changed the whole image. Suddenly the scale of the place had something human to measure itself against.

That is Scotland, honestly. And I would not change it.

The full story is on the blog, and the print is in the store.

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18/08/2026

August 12, 2026

The Ralston Cairn, Glencoe, Scotland.

High above the road through Glencoe sits a small stone cairn, surrounded by heather and some of Scotland’s most dramatic mountains. It is a memorial to Ralston Claud Muir, who loved walking and climbing these hills and died in 2000 at just 32 years old.

His ashes were laid here by family and friends, with a simple inscription that seems perfectly at home in this incredible landscape. “These are my mountains, and I have come home.” Knowing the story behind the Ralston Cairn made this a particularly meaningful scene to photograph.

Hasselblad X2D with 25mm Lens.

17/08/2026

This Barbados visit I decided to try something different.

We have been going since 1994, when we got married on a beach in Christ Church. I was 21, it was my first time on a plane, and we booked the whole thing out of a travel agency back in the UK with a pile of brochures on the table. We came back for our first anniversary, then life got in the way and it was 2019 before we returned. We have been back several times since, and it still feels like arriving somewhere familiar.

Every visit I photographed the same things. Sunsets, mostly. They really are very good sunsets and I am not going to stop.

But that trip I left the tripod behind and just walked. Oistins on a Friday night with the grills going and half the island out. Bridgetown on a Saturday, the market stalls, the bar doorways, the Chefette counter after dark. No setting up, no waiting for the right light, just whatever happened to be in front of me.

What I came home with was less about the island and more about the people who live in it. That was not really the plan, but I am glad it happened. Barbados has been good to us for a long time. This was a different way of paying attention to it.

16/08/2026

Step into the story behind this image: Stillness on Lake Dora

The sun setting over the calm waters of Lake Dora, with a quiet dock in the foreground. A fine art landscape print from Mount Dora, Florida.

16/08/2026

August 12, 2026

Castle Stalker, Scottish Highlands.

This photograph was taken at 7:08pm GMT, right around the moment the solar eclipse was expected to reach its peak of approximately 90% coverage.

Unfortunately, much of Scotland and the west coast in particular was blanketed in heavy cloud. After waiting and hoping for a break, the clouds finally opened for just a few moments, allowing a small shaft of light to break through over the landscape.

It wasn’t the eclipse photograph I had envisioned, but sometimes the conditions give you something different. This was the best frame of the series, and I love the atmosphere created by that brief moment of light against the dark Highland sky.

Hasselblad X2D with 90mm Lens.