Welcome to a small collection of images
from walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains.
It is a true reflection
of my skills as a mountain photographer that after more
than 25 years of activity in the Scottish
mountains I have barely a couple
of dozen images worth showing off - and even some (most) of
those are of questionable quality. But then relatively
few persistent Scottish hill-goers do it for the
photography so I'm probably not alone with this hit
rate.
The internet is awash with pristine, high
quality stock photos of spectacular mountains and I
can't compete with those shots of scenery. The images that
tend to attract my interest though are those that attempt to reflect a little more of
the complexity of mountain conditions and hint at what it
feels like to be in amongst these wild places - this does touch on the
motivation of hill-goers everywhere. The photos on the
site are those from my shoebox that maybe do this a
bit. Most are mine, a handful were taken by
companions on our trips out and I've credited those
accordingly. They are in no particular chronological or
format order but are loosely grouped as shown in the
menu on the left. Some go back a fair bit in time (a much
younger me appears occasionally) and the format varies
from digital, scanned negatives and slides, old scanned
prints and even mobile phone.
It is a pity there are so few, but
perhaps it is difficult to get evocative shots in the
hills when the sun isn't shining and the sky isn't blue - or perhaps I'm just
no good at it! If you know of web sites where others
have done better please email me and I'll add them to
the links page.
Ian |