by alastair | Aug 26, 2016 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Trying to capture a sense of desolation and isolation I took this long exposure photograph looking across Lingerbay. Lingerbay lies on the east coast of the Isle of Harris, just off the Golden Road (so called because of the alleged cost of building it) some 12 or so...
by alastair | Aug 22, 2016 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
At the furtherest point of the Outer Hebrides archipelago lies the Butt of Lewis. An isolated spot on an isolated island on what feels at times as the edge of world, as the next stop west is North America. With poor light and stormy seas I opted to use a...
by alastair | Aug 19, 2016 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The photographer Paul Strand spent some 5 months in and around South Uist documenting the people and the land, which can be seen in his book “Tir A’Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland”. During his stay he took a photograph of this house and the...
by alastair | Aug 18, 2016 | News, Scotland
With darkness falling on the shores of Loch Ra near Achnahaird in the Highlands of Scotland, I reached for my camera and took this photograph. With the failing light the turquoise of the boat was almost luminescent in the dusk and with the rock already on the boat, I...
by alastair | Aug 15, 2016 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
I don’t usually “do” seascapes, probably down to the fact that living in Sheffield I’m probably about as far from the coast as you can get in the UK. The weather in July in the Outer Hebrides was not great. When we arrived at Hosta Beach in...
by alastair | Aug 7, 2016 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The weather in July 2016 in the Outer Hebrides was far from conducive for a family holiday (or for photography for that matter (3rd wettest and 4th dullest in record apparently). So when it wasn’t raining it was over cast – but this did lead to some...
