About Me
I prefer to use time and exposure to connect with my subjects - whoever or whatever they are.
I'm not one to walk in, take the most epic photo, and walk right back out again. In fact, some are confused about why I choose to share certain photos.
Partly it's that I like to show variety in my photos as a set, even if some variations are more exciting than others.
Moreover, I like to show the beauty in more common situations and subjects as well as find quiet or relatable moments in the extraordinary.
Often I feel that I am trying to make the point that the awe-inspiring beauty of the carving glacier can be matched by the silent collapse of snow from the tree; the crow is just as gorgeous and intriguing as the killer whale; the quiet, intimate moment is as full of wonder as the grandest adventure.
History
I first fell in love with photography because my family would buy disposable cameras for events like Christmas and weddings.
When I was turning 12 I begged my parents for my first digital camera and quickly got to work documenting every mundane thing in sight near my home in rural Scotland.
I studied computing at the University of the West of Scotland and moved to southern England for work. There, I got more experimental in the streets with analogue photography, as well as along my muse there, the Kennet and Avon Canal.
For a couple years I almost exclusively used an old Soviet rangefinder camera but eventually came to prefer digital photography. I experimented a lot with high-quality compact cameras such as the Ricoh GR.
In December 2018 I spent 12 days in Tromsø, an island city above the Arctic Circle in Norway. I found it to be a very inspiring place to take photos and moved there.
I wish that I could tell you that it is the snow, the wilderness, the wildlife, or the northern lights that makes Troms appealing to a photographer - but there is something more than the sum of its attributes that makes Troms a weird wonderful magical fantasy land.
In Tromsø I have found many interesting connections and opportunities for photography including Brim Explorer who operate whale safaris in Troms and cruises in the Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic.
Disposable camera, 1998
1.3 megapixels, 2004
The FED-4: a Soviet Leica copy for a more civilised age
My first aurora, 2018