Strathaird Coast, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Wanting to find original angle from which to make an image of the Cuillin from Elgol, I walked south along the coast of the Strathaird peninsula where I found a multitude of interesting rocky bays and cliffs looking across Loch Scavaig. I returned late in the evening to make an image; my intention was to capture the tide shooting up the two rock crevices in the lower half of the picture; however, my favourite exposure turned out to be this one, 0.4 seconds long, just long enough to catch an impression of the wave washing across the rock.

Mountains of Madeira
Clouds surround the high peaks of Madeira at dawn and begin to spill into the interior valleys. I used a slow shutter speed of a few seconds here to capture an impression of the clouds' movement over the cusp of this ridge. It forms part of the most popular one-day hike for locals and tourists alike: the path from the third highest mountain, Pico do Arieiro, to the highest, Pico Ruivo. With many exposed sections (featuring flimsy rope fences separating walkers from sheer drops of hundreds of metres), five tunnels and 360-degree views all the way out to the ocean at the top of Ruivo, it's an exciting walk.

Mountains of Madeira #2
Pre-dawn, this 20-second exposure captured the delicate first rays of refracted red light on this ridge, and drew out the creeping cloud into fingers reaching into the valley behind. The impression of this image is one of smothering by a white blanket; however while the long exposure has created intricate details in places, the blanket of cloud is too large and largely devoid of detail, so I think the image although eye-catching is not overly successful.

Paul da Serra, Madeira
Tongues of cloud plunge into the valley below the high moors of Madeira known as Paul da Serra, as numerous wind turbines on top slowly rotate in a gentle ocean breeze. I took several shots at different shutter speeds, and this one of 6 seconds gave the best balance of portraying the cloud movement without blurring all of the cloud detail. This image is my favourite of the ones I made in Madeira; it gives the impression of a giant river, and without the turbines to lend the truth of the scene's scale, it perhaps would almost look like a small abstract closeup of a mountain stream.

Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England
Dancing leaves on an Autumn stream: I noticed that on this apparently still and reflective stream, most leaves were completely motionless while others were slowly creeping around a branch poking out from the water. Stopping down the aperture to f32 and in some shots using a dark filter to further cut down the light, I made several timed exposures... (see #2)

Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England
Dancing leaves on an Autumn stream, #2: ..once the first few images were made I could see on the LCD preview where the patterns and eddies were forming interesting shapes, and so I then proceeded to frame the circles and arcs into different compositions and took a couple of exposures each time... (see #3)

Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England
Dancing leaves on an Autumn stream, #3: ..the results are at once a photographic record of the leaves' travels; a chart of the invisible movement of the water; and a portal, looking down to the tree canopy above.

Bournemouth Beach, Dorset, England

Calanais Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
A long exposure by moonlight captures the eerie silent spectral forms as the clouds streak by these 5000-year old standing stones.

Traigh Sheilebost, Isle of Harris, Scotland