Most of my landscape photography is done in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and in New Zealand. This is partly because they’re both stunning and partly because these are the places I spend most of my time and landscape photography tends to be time consuming – the locations are sometimes remote and getting ‘lucky’ with the light means returning time and time again.
Viking shipyard, Loch na h-Airde, Rubh’ an Dunain Peninsula, Isle of Skye.
Looking over Loch Scavaig to the Black Cuillins, Isle of Skye.
Fairy Pools, Glenbrittle, Isle of Skye.
Tannin stained water winding its way over the white shell-sand at Traigh Hamara, Allasdale, Isle of Barra.
These three photographs were taken on Whakaari/White Island, a year before the main crater pictured above erupted in 2019. Whakaari/White Island is one of New Zealand’s most active volcanoes.
Disembarking after the 48 kilometre sailing from the small town of Whakatāne was akin to landing on an alien world.
Following the tragedy in 2019, in which 22 died people and another 25 were seriously hurt, it is no longer possible to visit the island – however, scenic flights are still possible.
The snags (standing dead vegetation) in these photos were taken in Kuirau Thermal Park in Rototrua, NZ.
The combination of skeletal snags, floating algae and enveloping clouds of steam-fog gave this area of the park a surreal quality.
Kuirau is part of the same geothermal field as Whakaari/White Island, known as the Taupō Volcanic Zone.
These three images are all of the Wellington’s rugged South Coast, just five kilometres from the centre of New Zealand’s capital.
Pariwhero/Red Rocks Scientific Reserve, South Coast, Wellington. The rocks are formed of ancient volcanic pillow lava.
A haar (sea-fog) drifting onshore, Breaker Bay, South Coast, Wellington.