23rd August 2018 – 4:06 pm
Iceland was awesome this year! I know that sounds like some terrible marketing pitch for my workshops WHICH ARE OPEN FOR BOOKING IN 2019! (see what I did there) but this year just worked out great. I’ve thought about blogging […]
1st August 2018 – 7:14 pm
In early 2015 on a hiking workshop in The Great Wilderness, I first voiced an idea that had been rattling around my head for some time to my hiking companions Sean and Harsharn. I wanted to make a book of […]
24th April 2018 – 5:08 pm
If you are reading this article you probably have a camera already – you don’t need to buy a new one. Don’t spend £1000+ to save a kilogram on your back; that’s crazy when you are starting out! With that […]
Wild camping is a fundamental part of my approach to photographing mountain and wilderness areas. I have camped in a wide variety of landscapes from the snow covered Scottish Highlands, to the high Drakensberg Escarpment. Without exception these trips have […]
28th March 2018 – 5:03 pm
Apparently this is my year! I just came overall runner-up in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017. Whilst many awards can be won by one ‘killer’ image this is a portfolio award and that does mean something to […]
28th March 2018 – 4:43 pm
On the back of winning the mountain category at the International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017, I was contacted by ITN to see if I would be interested in doing an interview for the evening news. It was obviously […]
25th February 2018 – 4:23 pm
I’m excited to announce that I won the ‘Mountainous’ category in the International Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. After several years of falling in and out of love with competitions it’s great to get a bit of recognition. As […]
13th January 2018 – 1:58 pm
Below I’ve compiled a graphic (for both Windows and Mac) showing my most commonly used shortcuts. I come from a landscape photography background but these shortcuts should be useful to those working in other genres as well. Learning these shortcuts […]
4th December 2017 – 12:26 pm
Topping up the fuel of my hire car in Bergville I was keen to get inside and buy a cool drink. I checked the temperature gauge – 37 Celsius. Inside in the air conditioned building I picked up a guava […]
30th August 2017 – 6:48 pm
It’s noon on Day 3 of a packrafting route in Senja, Norway, and I’m tent-bound with Harsharn. Wind and rain have been battering the tent for the last 20 hours. Pools have formed around us and a small stream is […]
30th August 2017 – 1:31 pm
I’m proud to be part of the Scotland ‘The Big Picture’ team – a group of photographers and film makers promoting the case for a wilder Scotland. Through my travels I have been privileged to experience a range of landscapes […]
I’ve just updated my free resize for web photoshop action. The update adds a few sizes (particularly for Instagram and 4K screens) and removes some lesser used sizes. There are many resize actions and scripts out there that do similar […]