Callanish Stones (Scotland 2013)

The review of the Scotland photographs from 2013 continues with a day day trip from our base on Harris to the Isle of Lewis and the wonderful Callanish Stones.

The photographs have been reprocessed in the last month with a number converted to black and white.

Mono work has been a feature of my post virus lockdown photography and I think it particularly suits the stones and the bright sunny conditions on the day. I have also included some colour versions and close ups of the gneiss stones. On reflection, I wish I had a taken a few more of the close ups as the subtle colours and textures look visually interesting:

Stormy Skies (June 2020)

May’s fine blue sky weather was replaced by storm clouds and heavy rain showers at the beginning of June offering some dramatic photographic opportunities. The best of these were captured along Combs Lane in Farnsfield where I later applied a black and white conversion in keeping with a number of my post virus lockdown photographs. These were some of the results:

There were a moments of brightness in between the showers:

But they didn't last long...

Harris Squares - Part 2 (Scotland 2013)

Following on from my previous post is an additional set of square formatted photographs. This set was taken on a rainy morning on the Isle of Harris and features studies of a small section of the machair.

In 2013 this type of photography was new to me but it had an impact that has stayed with me ever since. I was enthused by the simplicity of the photography and how the individual images could be presented together in a panel format. Today, I am more likely to explore a subject in multiple images rather than a single capture and I can broadly trace the origin of this approach to this morning on Harris seven years ago.

This was the presentation I made in 2013 and this is followed by a selection of the individual images: