• Music makers
• Marvellous isolation
• Unfenced existence
• Mere verisimilitude
• Blind gloom
• Unruminative technicality
• A superstructure of ideas
• Spacious discovery
• Primitive promptings
• Lost hours
• Shared state
• Silently singing
• Indelible shadows
• Facile technique
• Art happens
• Circumstances of beauty
• Quiet forces
• Beyond thought
• Abstract category
• Interior life
• Undisturbed space
• The ordinary day
• The hunter’s trance
• Other eyes
• What the river says
• Contained location
• Subtle dimension
• The pure stone

(St David's Head, 2005)

Contained location

I used to think in terms of ‘contained landscapes’ and ‘wider landscapes’, the former as close details of landscape, the latter open landscapes with the sky clearly present. The distinction is arbitrary: in every photograph the subject is contained within its frame. To convey a location is to evoke a sense of place in particular conditions, a sense of that habitat in a distinct season.