No Light: Life in the Forest
Since July 2010 I've made it my business to make a photo per day of the woodland around the Inverawe estate in Argyll; the theme is a study of the forest, little things that catch my - or the dogs' - attention.
The Art
I created the idea of "no-light", a slightly Zen concept as a response to the usual role of light in landscape photography.
In a landscape, one often strives to capture an interesting pattern of contrasty light itself, dappled across trees or mountainsides. Instead, for the majority of these photos I have chosen the flat sunlight of the early mornings from before the sun rises over the mountain, coupled with a used a uniform style of black-and-white (slightly toned cold), in order to emphasize angles and forms, for their intrinsic shapes.
Browse the collection below or buy the book of the forest!
