Tightening the frame
Castle Stalker, Argyll
You may have noticed a few changes around these parts.
Photographers aren’t always very good at throwing things away. I’ve recently reduced the number of images on this website. It’s quite a bold step to shrink a public portfolio. There are many images I’m at least a wee bit proud to have captured that just don’t sit comfortably within a curated collection. Over the past couple of years I’ve noticed that people tend to respond most strongly to the images with which I’m gradually becoming identified. Narrowing my focus, and tightening the frame down to “light and water” gives my site a clearer voice, and also helps to give me a bit more focus when I’m out with the camera.
The website itself has changed to reflect that idea. There are now no separate portfolio and shop pages, just a simple gallery of my Scottish landscape photographs from which you can select a print if something catches your eye. Until now I’ve only been able to offer unframed prints. That works well for some people, but it also means extra effort before the photograph can find its way onto a wall. I’ve therefore started offering framed and mounted landscape prints. These are available in two sizes, 30 × 45cm and 40 × 60cm. Each can be ordered either as an unframed print on thick archival Fuji paper, or a clean white bevelled mount behind glass, with a solid satin black frame. Other frame and mount colours are available on request.
Posting a print in a sturdy cardboard tube is very different from shipping a large framed image with tough, but breakable, glass. The costs vary so widely that I’ve had little choice but to include UK postage within the price of my prints. Customers outside the UK will now need to contact me directly to place an order. It’s not difficult, but my website platform simply can’t handle that level of shipping complexity.
I’ll still be printing and framing images of Lochgoilhead and the surrounding Argyll landscapes, specifically for sale through local outlets. It remains a nice way for visitors to take a small piece of the place home with them. If you’re one of my very few super-fans (thanks kids), you can also still order my merch from the “About” page.
Do let me know what you think of the changes. And as always, if there’s an image you’d like me to capture, just drop me a line.
In a way, my website now reflects how I try to work in the field; more focused and guided by light and water.
