Landscape, Nature and Art Photography


I find inspiration in the wilderness: from some of the oldest rocks in the world in Assynt, Northern Scotland, to the flora and fauna that flourish where the forces of geology have caused huge disruption in rural Perthshire, to the landscape closer to home in Argyll, observing the natural environment brings a restorative tranquility.

My work varies from realistic to artistic, but at all times I hope to convey a sense of place, from rushing waterfalls to calm stillness to a small detail that catches my eye.

Since April 2010 I have been making a photograph per day, always black-and-white, focussing on the minutiae of life in the forest: the result is my photo-blog, updated monthly: No Light. From April 2011, the selected highlights are available as a book.

in this section

Essays on aspects of Photography On the effects of camera settings A Relaxed Approach to Photographic Philosophy Stacking for Image Quality

My photographs, displayed on Google Maps

Locations The following is a Google Map of places where my photographs were taken: View Larger Map

Causes I support

Causes I'm interested in the following causes and charities: British Hedgehog Preservation Society R.S.P.B. John Muir Trust say no to ID cards! Cairngorms Revolt Against Pylons the Campaign for Dark Skies

A statement of intellectual property (IP) rights, copyright and licensing terms for my work

Copyright Statement All the images and media on this site, unless otherwise stated, are created and owned by Tim Haynes. By default, in the UK and other jurisdictions, all rights would be reserved. However, I am choosing to release these works under the terms of the Creative Commons "cc-by-nc-nd (Scotland)" license. This gives you the right to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work subject to the following conditions: Attribution: you must give the original author credit;Non-Commercial

Videos made of the natural landscape

A recent departure for me has been the making of short timelapse videos of the landscape. I wrote a Python script to interpolate from a set of still photographs, applying a handful of effects (blur, gamma, masking), to a set of output images to combine as frames into a movie (e.g. using ffmpeg). The project homepage is at timelapse.py and sources available directly from github. Currently my favourite example using this script is Morning at Glen Affric.

Work I'm prepared to showcase

Portfolio: Fine Art Landscape Photography

A gallery of artistic photography

Art Gallery In this gallery I present my more processed art works, "intimate landscape" closeup studies and other scenes that start out as photographs, but are taken beyond mere documentary representation, with an added message or feeling.

Photographic Projects I've completed

Photographic Projects Over the past few years I've come up with at least three ideas for series of images, subsets and derivatives of my usual landscape photography. A couple of winters ago, I started to notice the shapes of trees during winter; this became the Space-Filling Curves project, consisting of 6 photos sharing the style of being made on black-and-white film, in square format. From July 2010 to 2011, I've run a project called No Light: Life in the Forest which explores themes of clo

Multi-image digital workflow

Digital Imaging What is it? My digital image processing workflow includes the use of several techniques to achieve either a higher quality image or a particular effect. All the images in this section use at least one such technique. Stacking Stacking is the simple process of taking the same photograph multiple times; by averaging the images together, the effective ISO noise drops by half as the number of images doubles, and the effect of a much longer exposure duration is simulated. HDR Hi

Photographs I have taken, mostly intimate landscape, mostly around Scotland.

Landscape Gallery Here I showcase what I consider to be the best of my work. I have several ongoing themes in the landscape: abstract closeup boots trees submerged stuff on my scanner Hasselblad and other square-photo landscapes landscape on film All images here are available for sale as prints or cards. Please respect my copyright.

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