Scotland - An Ancient Land
Throughout the eons of time, Scotland has been smoothed and rounded by continual weathering of the elements, where ice, fire wind and rain have given rise to dramatic landscapes, which are familiar today.
With rocks in Torridon over one billion years old and those further north in Assynt, some three billion years old, it is this very ‘ancient’ quality that for me, defines that Scottish landscape.
The Birthplace of Icebergs
Floating between giant icebergs and pods of feeding humpback whales, in Greenland’s Denmark Strait was the most sublime experience.
In this photo-essay, I have attempted to capture the essence of Arctic wildness amidst fears that increased air temperatures are causing Greenland's ice-cap to melt increasingly fast which could have serious implications for future sea levels and ocean currents.
The World’s Wildest Places
The wildest places on Earth are also some of the most threatened. These hotspots are the richest and the most vulnerable reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth, that help regulate weather patterns and rainfall and often protect important watersheds.
Yet they are increasingly threatened by population growth, agricultural expansion and extraction activities, such as mining and logging.
Scotland
Silent Witness
The sheer excitement of shooting during the magic hours can never be understated. Standing alone on a mountain promontory, before sunrise or sunset not knowing how events will unfold is what for me, makes photography so rewarding.
Being the sole witness to these unique moments, which will never repeat themselves exactly, is itself a privilege.
Alaska
In Search of Solitude
True wilderness solitude can't be explained; it can't be digitised; it can only be experienced. We cannot own it, encapsulate it, or control it, much less create it but we can preserve it. It lives outside us. It is the world that cares nothing for us or our civilisation and culture, but has its own life, its own purpose, and its own destiny independent of human plans and values.
But it is vulnerable. If we touch it ever so lightly, if we leave any trace of ourselves, if we are there more than a few times a year, it is gone.
The Himba - Namibia
The characteristic look of the Himba comes from intricate hairstyles, traditional clothing, and jewellery, as well as the use of a mixture of red ochre, butter and resin from the Omuzumba shrub. This paste, known as ‘otjize’ is used as protection against the weather and a skin lotion and rubbed on the skin, into hair and onto traditional clothing.
Although life in the homestead or ‘kraal’ continues in remote parts of Kaokoland, the Himba are a people in transition and their traditional way of life is changing with exposure to western influences and tourism.
Bhutan
The Last Kingdom
Bhutan is an extraordinary destination; surrounded by myth and secreted within the Himalayan mountain chain, it rubs shoulders with the global giants of China and India.
Protected by remoteness, the way of life has remained unchanged for over a century but is slowly being reshaped by modernisation.
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