Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

Well a day of mixed halves, firstly the rain that left nothing to do but visit galleries, of which the Three Herons was run by a very welcoming gentleman with a good eye for an original composition. A couple of excellent examples are Blaven and The Cuillin, A magnificent tree stump and a beautiful Etive rock forms.

The second gallery we visited was Wood Rising gallery which looked very interesting until I realised that I was getting bored of every picture almost as soon as I’d seen it. There were three or four good pictures (a good shot of sligachen and a couple of good intimate landscapes – mushrooms, moss and bark) but lots of very knee jerk twilight horizons.

With a bit of this inspiration, I drove up and down the Elgol road trying to find something that wasn’t as formulaic and the tree shot and the panorama here are what I got. The the tree shot was a fight against time and flare, with the light dissapearing rapidly and no chance of a 4×5. The end result is quite vital and is fairly popular. The panorama just doesn’t quite work for me though, it’s a little too flat and I don’t like the colour..