I’ve dedicated this album to Col & Graham, who were my two
companions in a track clearing team at the Scott-Kilvert hut in Nov
2017. Both of them delivered to me a very rare human quality –
empathy – a recognition by them, that my plight on the three days
there was at times dire. I thank both of them for their
thoughtfulness. On this trip, I combined some photographic
endeavours with the track clearing work – revisiting sites which I
had identified about 20 years earlier. As you can see in this
album, I’ve become strongly involved in the world revealed by
reflections from water. That reflected world throws up the
question: "What in fact is reality?" Is it what we experience when
we're awake? Is it what we experience when day dreaming, or when
we're asleep? Or is reality some emotional state? In some of this
work, I think I’ve pushed to the limit – possibly beyond the limit
- the ability of a viewer to decode what they’re looking at. In
such a condition you need to abandon analytical attempts & instead
experience the image emotionally. There are also shots taken on the
Knyvet Falls track, as well as images of the lichens abundant on
the edges of the sub-alpine forests of the Vale of Belvour.
