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British Photography Awards - 'Land Animal' category winner In amongst a pretty dire year to be working as a professional photographer, I was grateful to find out that the above image was one of the category winners in this year's British Photography Awards.This is my third category-win in a major national competition, the other two … Continue reading British Photography Award winner →

This is not going to be a blog post boasting about how well I have dealt with the absolute train-wreck that has been 2020. I cannot claim to have coped with it particularly well. I have spent most of the year with a general sense of dread which never quite goes away. Plenty of days … Continue reading Weathering the storm →

2019 has been my first year as a full time professional wildlife and landscape photographer. I'm happy to say it has gone very well indeed, and I am extremely glad that I did 'take the leap'. If you work as an outdoors photographer, then your images may be seen by many thousands of people via … Continue reading Favourite images of 2019 →

I am delighted, and a little nervous, to announce news of this. For the last year I have been working on a documentary with award-winning film-maker Mike Webster from Inverness, supported by Petzl. 'Down the Rabbit Hole' is an adventure film, but it is also an honest exploration of mental illness and recovery. In 2018, … Continue reading Down the Rabbit Hole – a new film and exhibition →

Taken at my pine marten hide near Inverness. It has been the longest and one of the most successful seasons ever at the Black Isle Nature Photography pine marten hide. I’ve had people in the hide almost every day from the end of April until mid August! So I thought I would give you all … Continue reading Another summer of pine martens →

First off I'd just like to say a big 'thank you!' to everyone who has joined me for workshops, photography days and tours over the last few months. Black Isle Nature Photography is experiencing its busiest year to date, and I'm delighted to be able to share details of some new workshops and photography days … Continue reading New photography workshops for 2019/20 →

I'd like to say a huge 'thank you!' to the many people who have joined me on my Black Isle Nature Photography workshops and tours over the winter. It has been such a great few months and you have all kept me extremely busy. It's fair to say that we haven't had the coldest or … Continue reading A great winter of photography workshops →

I need to say a big thank-you to everyone who has sent their congratulations over the last few weeks. I have had literally hundreds of messages via email, social media and in person, and I haven't been able to respond to even half of them. It has been an overwhelming couple of months. Since mid … Continue reading A win in the British Wildlife Photography Awards →

First off I'd just like to say a big congratulations to everyone else who was successful in this year's competition. Some of the images I've seen have been world-class, and I've been getting a case of 'imposter syndrome' looking at them all. I've been fortunate to have had a good amount of success in national … Continue reading Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018 →

Last year I managed to sneak a landscape image into the British Wildlife Photography Awards exhibition and book. I was delighted, but this year I'm very pleased to have had an actual wildlife image Highly Commended. 'Wave Break' is probably my favourite wildlife image from the past few years. Nothing about it was planned or … Continue reading The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2017 →