"I've got a green lollipop!" said my son William (4) with great excitement! He was waving it in front of a lone fellow who was sat on a bench on the edge of the......

I was doing a documentary photography project on remote and forgotten Hebridean islands. And one island I visited, which shall remain nameless, was profoundly moving. One amongst many many islands I visited that were charged......

Sea bird wreck, Scotland © John MacPherson A seabird 'wreck' is the term given to the mass deaths of the birds. This one happened......

I can do anything © John MacPherson   Before this one night of frost, the discarded piece of plywood had......

I've been doing an ongoing documentary project on inshore fishermen on the lovely island of Mull off Scotland's west coast. For those who choose to do this its hard hard work, in an economically and......

Something for Easter Sunday. Religion? Hmmm. The older I've grown the more intolerant I've become of its uglier excesses. Sadly there are many. And consequently I distance myself from it. I’m Scottish, that means I have......

I met him in the woodlands, years ago. I'd come upon him without him seeing me as he was distracted, bending over and sticking something into the ground. He was a giant of a......

I posted an Angry Poem some time back. An occasional thing I do when I get........well......angry. No smiles in this post, and no profound thoughts. Just a bit of anger. I wrote this one......

I've been teaching photography in various ways for over 20 years, and embraced the digital revolution for all the reasons we all have, but also because of the ways it enabled me to show......

Duckrabbit posted a link to tutor Jenny Pollard's blog where she said: ‘I was dumbfounded when a student responded with genuine tears of relief, there in the seminar, to the suggestion that there was a......

Here's a wee something in celebration of  International Mountain Day. I was born in the shadow of Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain. My grandparents used to take tourists to the summit of 'the......

A recent post by duckrabbit on trust, and responses from Ciara about getting close to people, struck a chord. I was working on a book project to photograph a bunch......

I was struck by a recent post by David, and his quote from Josh Metzeler about getting to the right place to take pictures:   I’d like to say one very important thing about photojournalism (that......

duckrabbit would like to welcome the writer, photographer and all round top bloke Julian Lass to our team. We met at Arles and sparked.......