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Shifting Landscape

Visual Art & Photography

via Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand

Singular Landscapes

Colour long-exposure winter landscape in Glen Etive, Scotland, with dark peaty water flowing almost stout-like through blocky reddish-pink rocks into a black foreground pool, beneath bare brown hillsides, snow-dusted distant tops and a pale fading sky.
Dark Fall, Glen Etive
Scotland

Singular Landscapes gathers selected landscape photographs from Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand. Rather than forming a closed series, these works hold particular encounters with place: coast, mountain, loch, volcanic ground, open water, winter light and shifting atmosphere.

The photographs are grounded in direct looking and physical presence within the land. Some works are quiet and still; others carry stronger weather, distance, exposure or later reinterpretation. Together they trace landscape as an ongoing relationship with place rather than a single location, style or fixed body of work.

  • Colour photograph of the steamship Sir Walter Scott on Loch Katrine, Scotland, with pale smoke drifting from its funnel beside a wooded shore in thick fog, red-and-white awnings, dark still water and autumn trees fading into mist.
    Making Steam
    Loch Katrine, Scotland
  • Colour landscape photograph of Loch Katrine, Scotland, with a sunlit wooded island, autumn-flecked forest, Ben Venue, blue sky and white clouds reflected in still mirror-like water as morning fog clears.
    Katrine Clearing
    Loch Katrine, Scotland

  • Serene coastal landscape with cracked foreground rocks, smooth misty water, and a distant island silhouette beneath soft pastel sunrise or sunset light.
    Rangitoto Twilight

  • Colour long-exposure coastal landscape at Whangamata, New Zealand, with a large scalloped cloud across blue sky, smooth pale sea and wet sand, a small offshore rock, distant island and tree-covered rocky headland.
    Cloud Scallop, Whangamata
    Aotearoa New Zealand
  • A long exposure landscape photograph at dusk with a pink and lavender sky reflected in glassy water, a rocky headland with dark bush on the right, and rock stacks in the middle distance.
    Whangamata Pink
    Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Black-and-white landscape photograph of a stone cairn on Roineabhal (Roneval), Isle of Harris, with distant hills, low cloud and a dark sky beyond.
    Roineabhal Cairn
    Isle of Harris, Scotland

  • Colour winter landscape photograph in Glencoe, Scotland, with frosted boulders, dark water and a small icy waterfall in the foreground. A bare tree stands in shadow at left, while glowing mist partly reveals a sunlit mountain peak beyond.
    Buachaille Blue
    Glencoe, Scotland
  • A long exposure landscape photograph of calm water under a wide blue sky at twilight, with faint star trails in the upper sky and a distant headland with two small rock stacks on the right horizon.
    Clear Air, Whangamata
    Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Colour coastal landscape at Mangersta, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, photographed from clifftops high above a stormy, foam-flecked sea, with red-lit cliffs and sea stacks beneath a heavy dark sky.
    Mangersta Needles
    Outer Hebrides, Scotland
  • A black and white long exposure photograph of a crater-like foreground rock at Narrow Neck Beach, with the dormant volcanic island of Rangitoto as a low dark silhouette on the horizon and the water softened to mist.
    Rangitoto Echo
    Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Long-exposure colour seascape of a basalt dyke on the Isle of Arran, with dark rock ledges, green seaweed, stormy sea and a heavy dusk sky.
    Basalt Dyke
    Isle of Arran, Scotland

  • Black-and-white landscape photograph of the Callanish standing stones on open moorland. Low sunlight catches the rough, lichen-marked foreground monoliths, while smaller stones recede beneath a dark sky streaked by long-exposure cloud.
    Stone Circle, Callanish
    Isle of Lewis, Scotland
  • Colour coastal landscape at Motukiekie, New Zealand, with orange sunset over the Tasman Sea, white surf sweeping across dark sand, offshore rocks, a tree-covered cliff and a smooth foreground rock anchoring the foreground.
    Motukiekie Sunset
    Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Colour long-exposure seascape at Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, with yellow-lichen and barnacle-covered foreground rocks, smooth dark water, pale blue-green sea and a low rocky headland beneath heavy storm clouds.
    Storm Light, Dunure
    Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Colour night coastal landscape at Whangamata, New Zealand, with a bright amber moon in a deep blue sky, mauve and purple cloud bands, a soft moon reflection on calm sea, silhouetted offshore islands and dark beach foreground.
    Moonrise, Whangamata
    Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Colour twilight coastal landscape at Lendalfoot, Ayrshire, Scotland, with large dark foreground rocks, softened sea, Ailsa Craig on the far-left horizon, and a pink-blue evening sky.
    Lendalfoot Twilight
    Ayrshire, Scotland

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