Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

As we had my Mum and Dad up I wanted to show them Richard Child’s gallery in Oban, being as it has to be one of the top five landscape photography galleries in Europe – a totally uninformed statistic but I have a feeling it has to be true 😉

Anyway .. we went to the gallery to see Richard’s artwork and to say hello. Richard has done an amazing job setting up the gallery and I would highly recommend anyone in the area go see it (and hopefully buy something!).

After saying hello, we went over to Easdale’s slaty beach to capture some coastal rays and to browse around for shots. My Dad and I kept finding square and triangular holes in the slate and spent some time trying to work out where they had come from (triangular worms??) and eventually we found out that the slate was embedded with iron pyrites! As we wandered around the beach we found large swathes of coastal slate studded with protruding fools good. Obviously this couldn’t go without an attempt at a photograph.

I knew the bright blue sky would cast an intense blue onto the transparency and left the shot unfiltered. The setup was a little hairy (dangling in approaching water, see picture) but eventually I fired off a couple of shots and we drove back to Glencoe as the weather was closing in..

Here’s the picture and a shot of me taking it (taken with my iPhone to record time and date and gps position)