Martyn Clayton

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Martyn Clayton Contributor---England

Martyn Clayton is a writer and photographer based in York, England. He's been published widely as a magazine and newspaper journalist both nationally and internationally. He is the author of a non-fiction book about the Roma people. He writes fiction as a distraction and has published two novels. His photography began as a necessity to accompany feature articles, but has developed into a full-blown passion over the years.

               A photo-journey into the Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands are the only genuine wilderness within mainland Britain. They are a place set apart, by geography and culture from much of the rest of the island, retaining a distinct sense of self. It is the individual pulse of the place that makes it so attractive to artists and writers. Landscape photographers love the Highlands, but they present problems. The scale of the landscape, its vast emptiness, is very hard to genuinely capture without masses of technical equipment. Instead, the photographer of more modest ambition, myself included, perhaps needs to look at the smaller scale features, the traces of mankind's influence on and between the mountains, the movement and changes of light and weather, that all play a part in creating the unique Highland atmosphere. I always come away from a photography trip to the Highlands frustrated at my limitations, but also grateful to have had the chance to at least attempt to do them some justice.


       Eilean Donan Castle, western Highlands

       View of the River Oich, from the old bridge at Invermoriston


      A boat in Plockton Harbour


       Plockton Harbour, Kyle of Localsh

A bicycle named Ecosse, Plockton

The village stores, Plockton

Annie ventures up the Caledonian Canal, Fort Augustus

          A friendly neighbourhood pony, Kiltarlity


       Evening draws in over Kiltarlity

       Highland Railway, Aviemore, Cairngorms


       Passing Place, Abriachan


   A high point in Inverewe Gardens

       The beginnings of Loch Ness, Fort Augustus


        Sunset over the Tomnacross Tree, Tomnacross Churchyard, Kiltarlity

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