Soggy bottoms and the boredom of perfection.

As a landscape photographer the weather has always played the biggest part in my work. Anyone who knows nothing of photography will tell you that a bright sunny cloudless day would be ‘perfect’ to go out and take pictures, and of course for some people it would be. But generally speaking, cloudless blue skies are not really for me.

Jura, Scotland, 2006

In 2006 I ventured around the Scottish coastline making work with an 8/10” camera. For an entire month I was as moody as the weather and the sun did not shine once. There was not a single day when I wasn’t soaked through. But that soggy adventure was one that brought about some of my best work.

There is a boredom that comes from perfection. If something is considered perfect it cannot be changed.