Gallery of Mountain and Landscape Prints

The main ridge of the Black Cuillin of the Isle of Skye presents one of Britain's greatest challenges for both the mountaineer and the mountain photographer alike. The very location of this complex and precipitous group of summits, on the southern tip of the largest island in the inner Hebrides means that it is exposed to some of the most changeable and unpredictable weather patterns to be found anywhere in the British Isles. These mountains can be shrouded in mist for days at a time and then, suddenly, will appear in skies of outstanding clarity only to disappear again with equal rapidity.

Whilst any effort to photograph these very spectacular mountains in reasonable weather will always yield reward, I have always thought that the best viewpoints are from the north and south. Yes, I will concede that the summits enclosing the corries of Banachdich, Lagan and A'Ghrunnda do present a striking outline when seen from Glen Brittle to the west, and the sweeping elegance of Glen Sligachan and the rocky hollow of Harta Corrie offers an excellent foreground to any vantage point from the east. But neither, in my opnion can compare with the the views from the north, whose aspect benefits from the foreground of the tumbling waters of the Sligachan Burn, or from the south when the pinnacled summits are set above the deep blue lochs of Scavaig or Coruisk.