About

Selected Client List

• FotoVue

• Aberdeen Standard Investments

• The Great Outdoors Magazine

• Think Publishing

• The National Trust for Scotland

• Keswick Mountain Festival

• Red Bull

• Maitland

• NASUWT - the teachers’ union

• Randonnee-ecosse

• National Power

• Fjordhaus

• Greenergy

• Scottish Education Authority

• Shetland Folk Festival

• The British Mountaineering Council

• Alzheimer Scotland

• VisitBritain

• Royal Photographic Society

• Smart-STEM

• Condé Nast

I didn't always want to be a photographer. 

When I was in primary school I wanted to be an astronaut, but NASA never called.

I came to photography through a love of outdoor and adventure sports. As I grew older my imagination grew too, and I started finding as much satisfaction in getting a good photograph of someone else scaring the wits out of themselves as I used to find when facing my own mortality on the end of a rope. From the crags and rivers it was an easy transition to landscape photography, which laid the solid technical foundation that I've built the rest of my photographic skills upon.

Since then I’ve been lucky enough to have been commissioned by FotoVUE to write the Photographing Scotland volume for their exceptional range of photography guidebooks. If there was ever a job that changed my life, that was it, and seeing the book being put to good use by other photographers makes me immensely happy.

There’s more to photograph than landscapes though, and I quickly started shooting weddings and events, working in venues ranging from the local pub round the corner to grand cathedrals, muddy fields in the Highlands to the House of Lords in London.

Weddings in particular are just incredible to shoot, and I find them the perfect complement to landscape photography. Both can take you to some incredible places. When shooting landscapes you enjoy the solitude and the joy of discovering a place for yourself. With weddings, you are surrounded by people at their very best, and sharing some of the most profound and memorable moments of their life. To be able to document that for them is quite a privilege, and to do it well is immensely satisfying.

I have spent years obsessing over fancy flash techniques, processing and all the other technical gubbins that needs to be second nature when you’re on a paying job. I also learned to work to a brief, handle the logistics of a shoot, and perhaps most importantly of all, how to effectively communicate with a client to figure out exactly what they need and how to deliver it. I like to think that’s why most of my clients have been coming back to me for years.

I am a regular contributor to The Great Outdoors Magazine, who send me off to remote areas in Scotland on weird and wonderful missions, both as a photographer and occasionally as a writer too.

I was even, oddly, on the BBC's One Show, photographing the solar eclipse a few years back. If you’re not a fan of the telly, I have also been on both the Fred MacAuley Show and on Scotland Outdoors, and on both occasions can reasonably claim to have been the best (only) photographer on the radio all morning.

It all sounds pretty exciting when you write it out like that! Maybe I didn’t need that NASA job after all…