Elemental Colour
Creatively, this subject really appealed. Many of my images focus on the process of nature combined with studies of how the elements alter a landscape's appearance. I adore days of gentle drizzle, they fire my mind and send it searching for saturation, eager to discover colours only there because of damp surfaces. After an October squall raced down Glen Sligachan on the Isle of Skye, the moisture it left behind on twisted rock alongside Allt Daraich made its rich lichen palette radiate. With patience came an easing of the wind, the still surface a curved window to contrasting colours below. On the bed, a solitary fallen leaf.
*Technically, this image is flawed. To achieve the composition I visualised meant sacrificing overall sharpness. The focal plane of my lens has captured the pool and the lichen-smothered rock surrounding it in good focus, but that sharpness quickly falls away at the back of the image. It is this type of subject that leaves me envious of large format photographers who enjoy the front to back sharpness that comes from tilt and shift movements of their camera.