Landscape
As the sun starts to set in the west, the tin mines are lit up with beautiful highlights from the golden hour light. Down below, a series of waves wash the foreground of the image, after a big ship out in the distance, has slowly rolled these waves into the cliffs from out at sea.
In the Scottish highlands a beautiful river flows across towards the eastern edge, south-east of Inverness. Known as the ‘river Findhorn’, taken at sunrise, beautiful reflections from the sun are lit up during the morning glow. As there’s no wind at all, the river almost appears lifeless and yet, under the surface Atlantic salmon will be waiting for a little rise in the river, to carry on their migration to spawn.
The wall islets, an outpost on the edge of the open Pacific Ocean. This small two islands is home to BC Whales’ second research station. Used for monitoring largely orca and humpbacks, but also occasionally fin whales too.
As two members of the BC Whales 2019 team head out on the canoe for a bit of exercise, I feel makes for a nice moment to capture the scale of nature and how we are such small beings, in a huge world. Yet despite our size, our numbers can cause serious harm to this planet. The Great Bear Rainforest, is one those last remaining places, that has barely been touched by humans, but even here people have still managed to impact the natural world in
A group of Barasingha deer feed off the vegetation in Kanha tiger reserve. Barasingha are only found here in Kanha and therefore are indigenous to only this region. They are named like this because ‘Bara’ in Hindi means ‘12’ and ‘Singha’ means points. So they have 12 points on their antlers on the males.
A transient Orca passes through this foggy landscape during the early morning light, the lone male, was travelling with a couple of females, but they’re currently out of sight. These Transient Orca were probably on the look out for harbour seals around the corner, as there is a small island just out of sight, with around 20-30 harbour seals hauled out on it.
This is the village of ‘Castle Combe’, it is famous for being one of Britains prettiest villages and also for the various movies that have been filmed here. During the summer months it’s very hard to find a time to come, when there won’t be a tourist in you frame. So you have to pick the right moment and the right composition that will likely not have someone inside it.
As a storm approaches the land, the last of the sunset light glows before being pushed out, by storm clouds. The Ocean itself starts to boil, which provides the foreground with some beautiful water movement. Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places in Britain to view these storms from, as the west of the UK, is always hit by big winter storms.
As the sea spray and stormy waves hit the coast, using a long exposure and graduated ND filter, it creates an abstract shot with water movement and the sunset lighting.
Waves crash against the rocks just around the corner from Porth Nanven cove, using a shutter speed of around 1/3 of a second, the shot creates motion blur in the waves, but still maintains a good level of detail from the crashing wave.
The ocean drags the waves back out to sea, before the next wave is launched in by the tide. With a slow shutter speed of around a couple of seconds, the drag affect creates this beautiful abstract water movement in the waves. Long exposures almost always will make the water look smooth.
A wave crashes over a rock, causing the water to spray up, creating this unique look with a shutter speed of around 1/3 of a second. Wave movement is one of the most fascinating subjects to mess around with when taking photos, as you can come up with some very creative, but also amazing looking shots. This shot was taken at Godrevy light house in North Cornwall.
The violent sea during a recent Cornish storm hitting Kynance cove on the south cornish coastline. The waves came from all directions creating lots of movement, which made the photography even more interesting.
The golden hour light peaks over the trees, whilst a sunstar shines bright off the leaves. Creating a beautiful scenic shot, across badminton park fields.
I went on a recent trip to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. This particular image was taken at the fairy pools. A series of waterfalls that leads up to the Black Cuillan Mountains.
Location: Sligachan Old Bridge. This particular image was taken at Sligachan, looking towards the Cuillan mountains. I felt it was a nice composition to get the waterfall and river in the foreground, with the towering mountains in the background.
Another angle from the beautiful Fairy Pools, I tried to keep the frame as symmetrical as I could for this particular shot. There is definitely always something magical about long exposures, I love the way it makes the water look.
Neist Point Light House: A truly stunning lighthouse situated on the most westerly point of Skye. The perfect location to catch the sunset, with a beautiful view of some dramatic cliffs.
Into the mood, a flog blanket wraps around the side of the mountain, engulfing one of the earth’s largest landforms, as if it were tiny. I wanted to capture the pure beauty of the fog and the mountain, to show that even the largest can be made to look small.
The Old Man Of Storr. A beautiful landform in the northern part of the isle of Skye. The views looking back across the sea at sunrise are particularly stunning. On this morning, the weather was very moody, which created a beautifully contrasted sky and water colour.
Standing on top the frosty snowy ground, looking the direction of Sligachan from the Old Man of Stor.
The vast landscapes of the Scottish highlands is a photographers paradise, this view in particular on this very occasion was a marvel to behold. The light hitting the distant snowy peaks of the mountains in Torridon.
It doesn’t matter which direction you look, when you’re on the isle of Skye, every direction provides you with a stunning view of highland mountains and scenery.
The lighting hitting this cliffs for this particularly five minutes was simply mesmerising, creating incredible shadows and a sea being surrounded by towering cliffs.