Sunrise And Sunset

Sunrise / Sunset

As any photographer knows the light at the end of the day can transform even a mundane scene

Luskentyre Sunset, Oil on board 24x12 inches, Painted in 2017 (X)

Staying by the beach at Seilebost on Harris, this was the view at midnight as the tide seeped across the vast expanse of sand.

Edinburgh Skyline, Oil on board 24x12 inches, Painted in 2019

I was waiting to catch the sleeper train South, wandering the streets of Edinburgh, when I caught this view of the skyline at sunset.

Ambleside Sunset, Oil on board 24x12 inches, Painted in 2020

The youth hostel at Ambleside, Lake District was once a hotel, so most rooms look out West across Windermere to the mountains beyond. Catch it right and you can have a stunning sunset from your bed.

Roughtor At Dawn

Oil on board 20x16 inches, Repainted in 2019

Some years back I spent the night wild camping on Bodmin Mor. It was too far for a day trip to climb its highest peak, so I took the tent, and got this view of the dawn around 5am.

Edinburgh Twilight

Pastel A2, Drawn in 2015

I was there to climb the Pentland hills, but it was December and by 4pm it was dark. This view of the afternoon light reflecting on the windows and the cathedral like a rocket ship at the end of the road caught my attention.

Land O' Hoy

Oil 20x16 inches, Repainted in 2019

The Old Man O Hoy is a well known rock climb on a tall sea stack off the coast of Orkney. I had the good fortune to be passing it on the ferry at sunset, when the rock and moorland behind glowed in the red light, and the sea took on this deep blue hue.

A Volcanic Sunset In Cambridge (photographs)

And now for something a little special I captured with my camera back in 1991. I was in Cambridge at the time, and it was six months after Mount Pinatubo erupted. We had the most dramatic sunsets that turned the sky a deep red an hour after the sun went down. I've never seen anything like it since. Watch the sequence of photographs below...