This page is a listing of my Landscape photography as published on this site. They are views, feelings, atmospheres that felt worthy of a landscape photograph. They are not necessarily the best shots, but nice to cast an eye over or dwell upon.
A small collection of seaside photographs around Scotland. Some are simple phone camera grabshots. There is something refreshing about visits to the seaside. Is it the tides perpetually renewing the shoreline, weather, smell or sound? Whatever, it is perhaps my favourite location in which to relax.
These were shot on an iPhone 4 in 2010 and are a good demonstration of how the iPhone camera (and others) have transformed photography. Its only weakness was wild swings in colour temperature from shot to shot, for which I corrected in this collection. These were taken around the rolling fields in Clackmannanshire at the foot of the Ochil Hills.
I know its summer and this being a very wet one so dry and sunny pictures are scarce. So from 2011 enjoy these summer photographs around Gartmorn dam near Alloa, Clackmannanshire. The dam is an emergency backup water reserve should the many dams higher-up in the Ochils should run dry. Hah! Like thats ever going to happen.
Over the past many years I have many photographs of the wildlife and greenery around this little heaven of nature. Each visit tells you how the seasons are constantly putting an arm around mother nature and helping her flow through the year. In all weathers.
As any regular reader will know, I am fascinated with great churches. For a similar reason large industrial scapes attract me. There is a celebration of achievement for large structures that rise from the earth. Whither blocks of stone erected in the name of religion, or a nest of stainless steel looping into paths in the sky.
These images are distant compared to my church studies, more a contextual or postcard of an oil refinery. Certainly NOT ‘wish you were here’. The Grangemouth petrochemical cracker complex paints an unflattering foreground to Falkirk and Linlithgow. When misty with low cloud, flares on the stacks light-up the evening sky to over 20 miles away and pulse like a giant celestial heartbeat. Akin to the skies over Mount Doom for Lord of the Rings fans. The site is draped in atmosphere.
Were it not some half-assed ‘secure’ environment, I would spend more time in the streets of the complex studying form, light and all that glorious stainless spaghetti. (Photographs from 2009)
An autumn stroll above the Ochils Dollar in Clackmannanshire. Castle Campbell (aka Castle Gloom) looks over the Forth Valley. Midday sun in November brought the colours to life as a mist creeps along the river Forth in the valley below.
