About me

I’m a self-taught, life-long photographer, and have been working seriously to develop my portfolio of work since I came to live in Lochaber in the West Highlands of Scotland in 2002. After twenty years living and working in Brixton, South London, the move to Lochaber opened exciting new possibilities, and photography was the logical medium to explore in this locale - if only to show the folks back down south why I’d come here!

About Lochaber

Most of the lanscape in these pictures lies within the Lochaber district, which contains some of the finest and wildest of Scotland's countryside, much of it steeped in the history of Scotland's peoples.

The district of Lochaber covers 2000 square miles and encompasses some of the most dramatic and captivating scenery in the Scottish Highlands. Of its population of 20,000, over half live in its capital, Fort William, or in the adjacent townships of Inverlochy, Caol and Corpach. This gives much of Lochaber the true character of "Western Europe's last great wilderness", as it is often proclaimed. It was not always so, and the low population density of the area today has its roots in the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Fort William's name evokes the military forces based in the area after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, to subjugate the men and women of the Highlands and wreak revenge for their part in the Jacobite challenges to the social and political order. In the 19th Century cattle-rearing and crofting communities were expropriated to make way for sheep-farming and the sporting activities of deer-stalking, shooting and fishing, further reducing the population and contributing to the desertification of the landscape.