Gallery release: ‘The Highlands’
In September of 2025, I embarked to the United Kingdom for my first trip to the renowned Scottish Highlands. Teaming up with fellow landscape photographer and local expert Murray Livingston, we led a wonderful group of workshop clients through the spectacular, remote mountains of The Great Wilderness. Between squalls of wind-blown hail and rainbows to perfectly still, clear sunsets, we truly received the full Highlands experience.
Post workshop, Murray and I spent some more time photographing the landscapes of Torridon and its surrounding Glens. In pairing appropriate weather forecasts with our choice of subject matter, we explored everything from towering mountaintops adorned in beams of light, to ancient Caledonian forests and birch woodlands showing the first touches of autumn.
I chose to show the gallery in this progression that we made from the Beinns to the Glens. My love for tree scenes certainly show; the woodland images were captured in less than 3 days out of 16.
Throughout the trip, I remarked several times how Scotland almost felt like a northern hemisphere cousin to Tasmania, or parts of New Zealand (just with less trees). The rugged, rocky peaks coated in grasses with lochs spread out amongst the valleys frequently stirred a familiarity of my home-away-from-home back in Australia.
Scotland is undoubtedly one of my favourite parts of the world that I’ve had the pleasure to photograph. I cannot wait to take a new group through here again with Murray for our workshop this September and show them the iconic majesty of the Highlands.
