I have lived in Scotland since the early 1980's. The landscape of Scotland, especially of the Highlands and Islands, has long held a fascination for artists of all kinds from writers to musicians as well as painters and photographers. I always felt a great empathy with this landscape but it was not until I read Charlie Waite's superb book The Making of Landscape Photographs that I saw how it was possible for me to express this through landscape photography. After learning the basics with 35mm equipment I moved to using large format; prompted by admiration of the work of Joe Cornish as well as David Ward and their advocacy of this format. The key advantages of large format for landscape photography are:
The slow and considered pace of working with large format is often cited as an advantage. Certainly, carefully considered photographs in this area are better; but there is nothing to prevent this approach with any equipment, it is an attribute of the photographer. The heavy weight of the equipment has never, to my knowledge, been seen as an advantage!
All the photographs on this site have been made with an Ebony 45S field camera. For most of them I use the 4×5 inch format with Velvia 50 transparency film (and occasionally Provia 100F). For some compositions I use a Horseman 6×12 cm back (both vertically as well as horizontally); this uses 120 roll film (again I use mostly Velvia 50). My lenses are 80mm, 110mm, 150mm (all these are Schneider), 210mm (Rodenstock) and 300mm (Fuji).