Photo Blog

Silo Park, Auckland

The Silo’s under the last ‘super’ moon…


Rangitoto Echo

With an echo of its recent volcanic past, the island of Rangitoto lights up as the sun sets over Auckland.


Between Heaven and Earth, Loch Katrine reflects

Between Heaven and Earth, Loch Katrine reflects

Fog lifts to reveal a scene of stunning clarity and calm in this series of landscape photographs from Scotland where Loch Katrine’s mirror smooth surface reflects islands, forests and mountains of autumn colour someplace magical between heaven and earth.


Fog clears the Walter Scott, Loch Katrine

Fog clears the Walter Scott, Loch Katrine

In these landscapes from Scotland, an atmospheric and dense fog shifts and shrouds the banks and wooded islands of Loch Katrine as the steamship Sir Walter Scott makes ready to sail.


Mull on a changing shore

Mull on a changing shore

Two photographs from the Isle of Mull spark some musings about change over time as the weather and light shift above an ancient landscape.


Swept away by the Tasman sea

Swept away by the Tasman sea

Almost losing my camera gear and an intensely colourful sunset fills the sky and lights the surf of the Tasman Sea on the West Coast of South Island, New Zealand.


Volcano’s shaped this landscape

Volcano's shaped this landscape

In this landscape from Scotland, a black basalt volcanic dyke stretches out into a dark and stormy sea on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde.


Bombed landscape at Bethell’s Beach?

Bombed landscape at Bethell's Beach?

Using a 10 Stop ND and some long exposure photography to capture these strange rock formations carved out by the raging surf and discovered while out shooting the landscape around Bethell’s, a black sand beach to the west of Auckland.


A nights photo shoot in the stone forest

A nights photo shoot in the stone forest

Night photography amongst the landscape of fossil trees standing along the shore at Takapuna in Auckland with some long exposure star trails raining down like meteors above the island of Rangitoto.


Autumn Waterfall

Autumn Waterfall

A classic landscape photo of the falls on the the river Falloch captured from a low angle with a slow shutter speed to smooth the motion of the water.


Battling winter snows in the Scottish landscape

Battling winter snows in the Scottish landscape

Out amongst the snow storms on a bleak midwinter’s day as strong sun breaks through dramatically to light lonely Glen Alladale in this series of atmospheric photographs from the Scottish landscape.


Aoraki Mount Cook turns red

Aoraki Mount Cook turns red

Out taking photographs in the mountainous landscape of South Island with New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki Mount Cook glowing red in the setting sun.


Frozen mountain landscape, icy Scottish dawn

Frozen mountain landscape, icy Scottish dawn

An oft photographed and iconic mountain in the Scottish landscape, the pyramid of Buachaille Etive Mor emerges from glowing morning mist above an icy and frozen fall at the entrance to Glencoe.