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 closeup and intimate landscape detail, the beauty of woodland flora and mankind's management of the land, all in a common digital black and white digital format; the results are available as a book.

During the middle of 2011, my interests have switched to digital manipulative processing for the sake of art, starting with techniques such as compositing for composition, selective blur and duotone colouring. The first result of this is a short series called Death and Destruction.

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Inverawe Woods

A semi-daily journal of photos taken in the woods of Inverawe, studying details of angles, closeup, shapes and forms and textures

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 moun

Death and Destruction

A short study on the theme of death and destruction in the woods of Inverawe

Death and Destruction Walking the woods of Inverawe, I regularly notice areas where trees have suffered an ugly disfigurement through use of an automated pruning machine. Of course, it is understandable that vehicles' passage along the road should be relative unimpeded by branches sticking in the way; however, this must be balanced with preserving a feeling of authentic woodland of healthy trees, coupled with the opinion of tourists as they drive through to the smokery. On a larger scale, ther

Space-Filling Curves

A study of the abstract shapes and form of snow-covered tree branches

Space-Filling CurvesThe Trees of Inverawe Spiky Young Thing Attitude Gnarled Perpendicular Lean In Leaning Curve As I walked the dogs in the evenings around late November and December, the changing evening light started to reveal a eerie side to the trees: silhouetted against a dark twilight sky, they would lose three-dimensionality becoming solid black warped curve shapes. And so an idea for a photography project began to form: for about 3 months I meant to take a came

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