I am a Landscape and Astrophotographer based in beautiful Perthshire, Scotland. My main areas of expertise are landscape and astrophotography, along with some wedding work which I used to do in higher volume (I am more selective about this work due to time constraints). I also work closely with Getty Images, providing commercial and editorial photography for clients around the world. My pictures are often featured in books, magazines, newspapers and online articles.

Every day we are bombarded by a never-ending stream of pictures; however very few of them can hold our attention for more than a couple of seconds at best. The value of the still image has been seriously eroded, however, I still strongly believe in it’s inherent value. It never used to be like this. We as photographers’ need to focus on quality over quantity like never before. We need to think like film photographers. There is a reason why so many of the great photographers have stated that they’d be happy if they create a dozen exceptional, truly unrepeatable photographs over their entire careers. I am still working on my 12.

The advent of Artificial Intelligence has truly been a blessing and a curse in this profession. AI can help tidy up some image defects quicker than a manual process with good results, it can also assist complex masking etc; however it is being used to construct entirely fake images, and seems driven to please those on social media for likes and comments. ‘Artists’ are literally constructing images from typing words into a text box. This has social and ethical problems associated with this practice, and even social media platforms have recognized the need to ask users to label things made by AI going forward…I for one, vehemently reject this way of constructing pictures.

I’d like to see photographers become more ethically responsible. I’d like to see more shoot images that actually resemble the planet we reside on! Because of this rationale, I do not strip parts of images taken at different times and places and use them together; I certainly do not use AI to produce fantasy pictures. Because the average person is exposed to such a vast number of pictures every single day, I believe this is pushing people to create more outrageous pictures simply to try get noticed. When crafting a picture I think of the Stanley Kubrick quote - ‘I never know what I want half the time; but I do know what I don’t want.’  I look for shape and form in everything that I do and I shoot in a very particular way because of it. I am a picture collector. Every single picture I display becomes an extension of how I see the world and space, but most importantly: what it makes me feel. There are many, many hours that go into the culmination of a definitive image, from conception to production.

This website does not exist to be an ambassador or mouthpiece for a company that is only allowed to give positive reviews. I am not here to shill or sell you products that you don’t need or want. What you read on my website is my true thoughts, unfiltered: I am free to state realities and give the full positives and negatives of any optical equipment or process I discuss here. That’s a wonderful place to be!

If you are interested in any pictures on this website; please visit my shop  section to see prints which I can ship to any country in the world.  If you are looking for something in particular , just message me as I may have what you are looking for in my extensive archive.

Steve