Gordon-c-harrison.co.uk
Title
Photos of Scottish Landscapes by Gordon C. Harrison and greetings cards from Scotland
Description
The art of landscape photography has for most of my life been a personal pursuit. To be alone in some remote place, waiting, watching for a moment of spectacular natural phenomena, gives me a sense of being at one with the natural world.
It is also intensely moving and exciting to wait for and witness dramatic lighting transform the landscape before you. These moments can be fleeting and unpredictable. The challenge is to record these rare moments on film, and subsequently create from the film a photograph with the emotional impact felt at the time. To do this successfully requires both technical skills and an artistic vision, allowing others to share these moments of natural drama.
As a photographer I am responsible for the image recorded on film, choosing the instant in time to record the scene, the composition of the image, the camera settings to record the light in a way which captures the mood of the scene, and the film to use. Often an entire day can be spent to capture one image, or even none at all. Capturing the image on film starts another process, transferring that image to photographic paper. As much creativity and time will be spent at this stage as was spent getting the image on film.
