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A Scottish Winter Wonderland

Cairngorms National Park · Winter
Awarded
  • British Wildlife Photography Awards Category Winner · British Seasons · 2026 as part of “Woodlands Thoroughout the Year - BWPA 2025 British Seasons”, 4 photographs Competition gallery → Read the story →
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Snow covers every branch on this scene from the Scottish Highlands, along a river that feeds the famous Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms National Park. A truly winter wonderland scene.

This photograph was taken soon after heavy powder snowfall covered every surface and branch in the Cairngorms National Park. This quite literally painted everything white. This can be challenging to photograph - extensive whites and sunlight combine to make depth and exposure choices rather difficult. However, upon reviewing my photos from this long walk, this one stood out. The depth from the river combined with the reflections make for a wonderful subject, and the branches leaning into frame lead the eye upstream. This creates a full frame of winter goodness! One that looks great printed, offering plenty of details that you miss on a screen.

Camera
Sony α7R IV · Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN Art
Settings
1/15s · f/8 · ISO 100 · 54mm
Captured
7 January 2025
Shape
landscape
Appears in
Awarded PhotographyWinter PhotographyFeatured - British Seasons BWPA Winner

About the prints

For me, printing is the end of the photographic journey. You've done all the hard work, edited the files and reviewed them. Seeing the photograph come out of the printer is the reward. The depth of colour from a printed photograph beats seeing it on a screen a hundred times over. Bring the story and this experience home with you with a fine art print from my portfolio.

Bluebells at Sunrise Printed on A4
Bluebells at Sunrise printed on A4 Fotospeed paper, editioned, titled & signed.

Each fine art print from my website is printed by me at home on my Canon Pro-1000 professional printer. To ensure the best prints possible, I use Fotospeed paper. This is archival grade paper, ensuring accurate colour representation. I then sign, edition and package the prints and get them posted to you. With this in mind, please allow up to 10 days for dispatch. If there will be any further delay to this, I will let you know via email - such as if I am on a trip away and it will be longer for dispatch.

If you do have specific requirements please let me know via the contact me form, and I will endeavour to solve any queries or requests. For example, if you need the print quickly for a special occasion, just let me know, and I will try my best to make it happen!

Bluebells at sunrise printed a4 with the edition number in the bottom left corner
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Why there's a border

The print will come with a white border around the photo to allow space for editioning and signing. This will also make it easier when you come to frame & mount your photograph, giving some flexibility. I sign the prints in an archival permanent marker, so it'll never fade.

Signing and editions

Every print is signed by hand in the lower border. Where a photograph is issued as a limited edition, each print is numbered, and once the last number has sold I never print that photograph at that size again. I print, sign and pack every order myself.

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Fog Rolls Under Brightwell Barrow From £55
A small copse on Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, emerges from a shallow temperature inversion across the farmland, January 2026. Low winter sun catches the fog from the east, reducing the landscape to a single silhouetted subject against a field of luminous amber. Tractor lines in the crop below anchor the image to the agricultural plain being consumed by the mist.
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