In Search of Brigadoon.

I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......

‘Inside The Fort’.

(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......

The Fish That Never Swam.

My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......

NC500: The Long and Wounding Road.

The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......

The Sister With The Photos.

Editors note: Buku Sarkar is a woman from India, and a writer & photographer. This is the story of an ongoing project she has 'stumbled' into. Unlike many other illustrated stories from India presented......

Disruption and Tech.

As I cleared my mum's house when she was moved into care suffering from dementia I discovered a small brooch on top of a wardrobe concealed within a dusty cobwebbed envelope. It was easy......

Consternation, Conversation, Conservation.

*Contains images/video and descriptions of deer culling* *Click images to view larger* *Names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality at the subjects request*     Running......

“Listen to the trees…”.

Mixed broadleaf woodland at Jock’s Gill, near Carluke, Clyde Valley, Scotland     "...some of the best advice I ever had."  said Ben (duckrabbit)......

Love & Loss on a Northern Isle.

It started in the wee hours, a distant keening that came and went as the wind gusting in off the Atlantic hustled around our van. It was in the notquitedark, an hour or so......

On The Inside Looking In.

What's the value of a story? To the reader it might simply be 'entertaining'. To the teller however it might be priceless - particularly if its a carefully nurtured cultural tale, woven around local......

A post photography world.

I like making images that do something. Something that goes beyond their simply being 'nice' or 'colourful' but which instead makes something explode in the viewer's head, makes them go "Oh!" and challenges them......

Money, guns, thoughts, prayers, money, news, thoughts..

Presented without comment. All screengrabs taken off twitter in the last hour.     ...

My Mate Travis.

"He's my mate, I mean what else can you do if not something for your mate? So I got him this so he can walk with me, and he loves the beach..."   ...

Life’s a Beach, and Then You Try.

Beach © John MacPherson   "Thats a lovely dog" said the lone man on the beach. The only other person out on this......

Women photograph. Everything..

Women photograph? Yes. Why? Why not. How? Easily. Eh? Because they're everywhere. And they're good. And if they don't photograph, we all lose out. So what have they been doing? This:   Take a......

Under pressure.

The front door opened and she walked in slowly. So very painfully slowly. Glacial would perhaps best describe her gait. She wore a rough white woollen wrap over a loose-fitting comfortable track suit. Loose-fitting, not......

The American Dream.

There's lots of images. Too many. Too many deaths. Too many injuries. This image by David Becker stopped me for many reasons. (one of a series of striking & thoughtful images here). It's not the......

Small Town Inertia.

Photography: Investment. Money. Influence. Power. Insight. Yes, all those things are here in an article in The Guardian entitled How Photography Became the Hottest New Investment Choice: ...

Lowkey – Ghosts of Grenfell.

Not just a great piece of music, but great video production too. This just 'works' - powerful and moving. But this is more than just music and images...its about absence and what we fill that......

Lowkey – Ghosts of Grenfell.

Not just a great piece of music, but great video production too. This just 'works' - powerful and moving. But this is more than just music and images...its about absence and what we fill that......