​In July, I visited a few of my favourite corners of Moidart, seeking to capture a single, frozen minute of time in each. By setting the camera to a one-minute long exposure, I could soften the movement of the passing clouds while shafts of light pierced through, providing contrast that lent drama to the black-and-white images I hoped to….

I’m not sure why, but over the past few months, something kept drawing my attention as I travelled around the Peninsula. Again and again, it was the sight of tin, or more accurately, corrugated iron. Not just the metal itself, but how it forms the walls and roofs of numerous cottages, sheds, and village halls – its once-bright coats of paint….

It might feel like a distant memory now, but May 2025 brought some of the warmest, driest, and sunniest weather ever recorded in the UK, thanks to a persistent area of high pressure that lingered for much of the month. At the end of the month, I spent a week on South Uist, where I soaked up the sunshine while exploring nearby Eriskay – a small Outer Hebridean island that left a….

A busy April left me with just one opportunity for photography – a single afternoon and evening spent in Glen Moidart, blessed with bright sunshine and blue skies dotted with white clouds. During that short visit, I captured a series of both colour and black-and-white images of what I consider to be a picture-perfect Highland….

March involved a trip out west to Port na Carraidh, a place many call Bay MacNeil, though that name applies to just one of the four sandy bays that can be found there. Less well known than nearby Sanna, it remains relatively undiscovered, meaning that I am often there with only the local deer for….

When you think of Ardnamurchan and its beaches, Sanna is likely the first that comes to mind. This is no surprise—its impact is immediate as you walk from the car park, through the marram grass, and over the dunes to see its dazzling white sands stretching out before you. I’ve visited many times to photograph it, capturing reasonable….

Early January brought a mix of colourful winter sunrises and sunsets, light battling with clouds, herons and otters, and snow-covered hills to the landscape around my home here at Resipole on the northern shore of Loch Sunart. So, in the month just passed, my photographic explorations did not involve any travel but instead had me taking….

December was a month of continuous grey with low cloud, mist and rain enveloping the landscape for much of the time. This encouraged me to stay close to home and limit my wanders with the camera to exploring the rocky shoreline of Loch Sunart within a mile or two of my home at Resipole. As you walk along the shoreline, the eye tends to….

I was away during the first couple of weeks of November, coming back with memories of some warm and sunny days on the beaches of Northumberland. This was a complete contrast to the cold weather that descended on the Peninsula shortly after my return. At first it brought cold, clear nights accompanied by bright, crisp days that….

Autumn seemed to really take hold in October, with the colour palette of the landscape on the Peninsula shifting to a mix of warm yellow, orange and red hues when the trees responded to both the drop in temperature and the drop in light levels. The expansive mix of woodland here provided ample opportunities to capture this change, with….

September is a month of change. It is the time of the transition between summer and autumn. With the sun lower in the sky, sunsets become longer and more intense and the combination of warm days and cool nights creates misty mornings. All of this provides fantastic conditions for landscape photography. In addition, settled weather can….

In September of last year, I published a blog on this website titled Thin Places: Doorways to Other Worlds. In it, I explained how the use of the term “Thin Places” is used to describe places where the boundary between the physical world and a mystical, historical or spiritual world is believed to be exceptionally thin, thus facilitating a sense of connection between….

As is usual, July was a slow month for me photographically and I guess this is down to the harsh light that you tend to get at that time of the year. However, I did make some trips out with the camera to Ariundle Oakwood, Glen Moidart and Ardtornish Estate. The first two were more walks than anything else, with the aim of finding some places to photograph when….

After some lovely weather in May, which turned the woodlands around Loch Sunart that intense ‘spring green’ colour that featured in last month’s Viewfinder Vignette blog, things turned decidedly cold and grey in June. However, the wildflowers fought through the gloom to bring splashes of colour to places around the Peninsula and occasional breaks in the weather gave….

May is one of my favourite months of the year because it is the month in which the landscape well and truly awakens from its winter slumber. This was certainly the case this year because the intense ‘spring green’ colour that is such a potent sign of new life arrived in its full splendour to adorn the woodlands at the top end of Loch Sunart during the first week of the…

Photography is not always about taking photos and April was a case and point. I spent a large proportion of the month off the Peninsula, so only managed to get a couple of opportunities to be behind the viewfinder and unfortunately, they did not yield much that I was happy with. Fortunately, I was able to find time to sort through, sequence and edit a set of…

March was quite a busy month photographically, with me visiting numerous places across the Peninsula from Portuairk right over in the west of Ardnamurchan; Fascadale Bay, Kilmory Beach and Swordle Bay on its northern coast; the River Shiel and Castle Tioram in Moidart; and then finally Kinlochaline over in Morvern. However, I’ve….

February, the last month of meteorological winter, proved to be less stormy than January but what it lacked in wind was certainly made up in rain. Looking at my weather station, it was the second wettest February I’ve experienced since moving to the Peninsula in 2016, with almost 200mm of rain in the month, and over half of that….

I’m sitting writing this while the wind is howling outside, the rain is battering off the window of my studio and the sea is being whipped up into a frenzy as yet more stormy weather passes over us here on the shore of Loch Sunart. This type of weather sure seems to have been a feature of the last few weeks, with us seeing no less than three named….