I had a interesting exchange on the way to work. I was taking this picture of a window – just interested in the symmetry and…
Category: Photography
Not sure what to say this month. Not quite to 200 days – although I am on the 200th as I type. Here are two…
I don’t feel I really understand something until I have had a go at it so, having watched some YouTube videos on Afghan Box Cameras,…
I don’t have access to a darkroom at home so pre-flashing paper negatives to reduce contrast is difficult. I wondered whether using a piece of…
Why bark if you have a dog? We need to be reminded to let someone else take over and do a job rather than doing…
I’m just back from a four day retreat at Wiston Lodge lead by Dene Donalds that I found very powerful. My sinuses were playing up…
These trees are the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were a vivid yellow/green and just a red filter in post process produces this effect. They were…
Stepping out for a few minutes before breakfast can be magical. Camping makes this more likely.
To encounter something living that is massively larger than you are on your way to nursery but change you.
I just used the Fukasawa theme on the Botanics Stories blog so I decided to update my own blog to something else – anything really…
What I like about photography is it is so often about what you want to say and not what reality is. Mixing this up with…
For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone who knows…
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At Henry’s book…
I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?
We have just had a week camping in the English Lake District. It didn’t rain the whole time. Very enjoyable in a gentle family kind…
About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I document the…
Stuart Beattie, director of Scotland’s Churches Trust, liked the portrait I made of him and asked if I might photograph the visit of Her Royal Highness The…
I have had an interesting evening torn between two shots I took today. Same subject and almost the same pose but one with what may…
This is a quick post to host some camera phone snaps for a discussion about the new X-Pro2 and whether it has frame lines for…
It snowed hard enough to drive me back indoors but by 10 o’clock it was all but gone.
Sunday evening and I’m taking the snaps off my camera. It has been dark and I’ve been hold up writing software for my Ten Breaths Map…
I thought it was the winter solstice this morning and my feelings were confirmed by ominous sunrise. But I was wrong. It is actually at…
Over the last year my main project has been photographing the people involved in reconstructing the Botanic Cottage. This is Sutherland who is the organiser of community…
I came to see that the human imagination is not paramount in the creative process: that what is paramount is “The Creation” and He who…
I’m just back from a week at Plum Village. I’d hoped to do some portraiture but didn’t really have time. Retreats are busy places what…
Mia shared this because it seemed relevant to my photography. I love it.
Vlasta is the interpretation officer at the Botanics so she tries to bring order to leaflets and signs and stuff.
Paul is curator of Inverleith House gallery at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a (surely THE) leading contemporary gallery in Scotland.
Final day of the Wiston retreat.