Light as language, time as texture. These scenes exist only for a heartbeat — a wave, a cloud, a shift of sun that can never return. Photography here is less about capture and more about recognition: the beauty of what vanishes as we see it.
“Morning Glory”
In the first quiet moments of day, the sea stack at Muchalls holds its silhouette against a rising tide of light. The sun breaks the horizon for only a breath, setting the wet stones aglow before the colour slips away again. A brief alignment of sky, sea, and stone—here for an instant, gone just as quickly.
In the first quiet moments of day, the sea stack at Muchalls holds its silhouette against a rising tide of light. The sun breaks the horizon for only a breath, setting the wet stones aglow before the colour slips away again. A brief alignment of sky, sea, and stone—here for an instant, gone just as quickly.
Gold on the Singing Sands
Statement:
At the last touch of sunset, the Singing Sands on Eigg come alive — rocks burnished with gold, patterns carved briefly into the shore, and the silhouette of Rum rising through a shifting sky. For a few moments, the landscape becomes a dialogue between warmth and shadow, calm and gathering weather.
This photograph captures one of those rare intersections of light and tide where everything aligns, only to vanish minutes later.
This image formed part of the portfolio that earned me Overall Runner-up in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022.
At the last touch of sunset, the Singing Sands on Eigg come alive — rocks burnished with gold, patterns carved briefly into the shore, and the silhouette of Rum rising through a shifting sky. For a few moments, the landscape becomes a dialogue between warmth and shadow, calm and gathering weather.
This photograph captures one of those rare intersections of light and tide where everything aligns, only to vanish minutes later.
This image formed part of the portfolio that earned me Overall Runner-up in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022.
Calm Between Storms
Captured at Haukland Beach in a rare pause between sweeping snowstorms, this image reflects a moment of quiet that existed only for an instant. Soft light drifts across the pale water and illuminating the rippled sand underneath, creating a gentle contrast with the storm-dark sky and snow-covered mountains beyond. In this brief alignment of colour, texture, and stillness, the landscape reveals its most delicate mood — a reminder that even in wild weather, there are moments when the world simply breathes.
“Breakwater”
Captured on the Aberdeen breakwater, this image freezes a moment that lasted only an instant — a surge of storm-driven spray rising high enough to nearly swallow the tower. For a brief breath of time, the tower emerges through a shifting curtain of seawater, lit from behind by a narrow shaft of light breaking through the clouds.
The scene is defined by its transience: the texture of airborne spray, the turbulence of the unseen wave, and the lone tower standing against the chaos. In this meeting of water, wind, and light, the familiar becomes momentarily otherworldly — a reminder that the most powerful moments in coastal weather are often the ones that vanish as soon as they appear.
Edge of Light
At Haukland Beach, the meeting of sea, snow, and sky becomes a quiet study in shifting light. As the sun rises behind the mountains, subtle warmth spills across the water, tinting the scene with soft golds and muted greens. The rocks in the foreground anchor the composition, guiding the eye toward the distant horizon where colours change by the second. This image is an ode to transience — a moment where light reshapes the landscape with gentle, passing touch.
