If you are driving through the Highlands of Scotland during the months of March and April, there’s a good chance you will see columns of smoke rising up on the horizon, behind at least one hill. In most cases, this is likely down to the Scottish Muirburn season which sees great swathes of heathland burnt…
Aurora Frustrations
The weather was perfect in so many ways yesterday, I was working in Grantown-on-Spey on a commercial photography shoot. The drive there and back was wall to wall blue skies, temperatures sitting around 19˚C – yes that’s 19˚C in March in the Highlands of Scotland. In the evening I drove to Aviemore, for a walk…
Cover Image – What Mountain Bike Magazine
I arrived back in the UK after a short trip to ISPO last week, to find the latest issue of What Mountain Bike magazine on the shelves at Gatwick Airport. The cover image jumped out at me. It’s one of mine from a photography shoot I did for the magazine back before Christmas at the…
The Bow Fiddle Rock
The Scottish winter is refusing to materialise. This weekend I should have been in the Southern Highlands photographing backcountry skiing, but the location is yet to get a covering of snow. Which meant I had a spare couple of days, which is actually much appreciated after the chaotic last few weeks. So, missing the sea…
MBUK: Out Front – Kinlochleven Enduro
Mountain Bike UK Magazine has just dropped and it’s got a nice double page spread from yours truly. Back in November 2016 I was commissioned for some mountain bike photography at the Kinlochleven Enduro, which I’ve written about here. I already had it pegged as one of the best races, I photographed during the whole of…
Insta of the Month – December 2016
Each month, I feature my best Instagram shot, as chosen by the likes and comments of my followers. My photographs from Nepal always prove to be very popular on Instagram, this one was to be no exception. We had been working in the tiny village of Gokyo, which sits high in the Himalayas at 5,000m. Waking…
Insta of the Month – November 2016
Each month, I feature my best Instagram shot, as chosen by the likes and comments of my followers. This month’s image was taken on the way home from a commercial photography shoot near Aviemore and it is one I’ve been planning to take, for a wee while. As I began packing my gear up on the shoot, it…
Kinlochleven Enduro 2016
Driving down the hill into Kinlochleven, was like driving into Narnia. Temperatures had plummeted throughout the North of Scotland and snow had fallen overnight, transferring this remote town, known for it’s history of aluminium smelting and more recently the Ice Factor National Ice Climbing Centre, into a picture perfect postcard scene. The sun was yet to rise,…
Insta of the Month – October 2016
Each month, I feature my best Instagram shot, as chosen by the likes and comments of my followers. Like last month, this months image was taken on my first trip to Nepal in 2014. I was watching the early morning sun, from the village of Merchermo at 4,465 meters, as it warmed the surrounding mountains….
Insta of the Month – September 2016
Each month, I feature my best Instagram shot, as chosen by the likes and comments of my followers. To kick of the series, this month’s image was taken on my first trip to Nepal in 2014, with my now wife, Katie. We were working in the mountain village of Gokyo at 5,000 meters and had…
