Somhairle MacDonald
I’m an Invernesian residing in Glasgow, Scotland and I make footage.
I’m a photographer, graphic design, illustrator, videographer and artist. I’ve been working as knowledgeable picture maker since 2001 and my expertise is broad and broad ranging. My love of images began in early childhood and I used to be fortunate to have a Mom and Grandpa who had been exceptionally gifted artists and nurtured and inspired my expertise. My Father was a eager movie photographer and I learnt the technical aspects of images from him.
Tim Parkin
Newbie Photographer who performs with large cameras and movie when in between digital images.
Are you able to inform me slightly about your training, childhood passions, early publicity to images and many others?
I grew up within the highlands of Scotland. Each of my mother and father had been introduced up in Lochaber and I loved a free and adventurous childhood. I nonetheless stroll up burns like I did once I was a baby and nonetheless mountain bike, although to not the extremes I did as an adolescent and in my twenties. I’ve explored huge tracts of land the place I grew up on An Aird and my behavior for exploring continues to at the present time. I’ve a deeply-ingrained tie to my house within the highlands and I’m keen about its panorama, folks and tradition. My Grandpa MacDonald was a shepherd in Glen Nevis on the foot of Ben Nevis. He saved his sheep on the excessive pasture of Stob Bàn, a sizeable and rugged mountain which is 998 metres tall. He was raised in Torridon and like him, I’m drawn to the wilderness. It’s in my blood, it’s my house.
Rose The Boat, Cuidhitinis, Harris
I received into images via my Father. He had a Canon FTb and we used to take pictures at sporting occasions like Le Tour de France and the Scottish Six Day Trials. In my twenties, I performed bass in an ethno-funk band referred to as Croft No. 5 and thru my involvement within the music scene I ended up designing album covers and taking pictures for different musicians. I’ve performed this for over twenty years now. I’m additionally an artist and my images feeds instantly into my portray course of.
Inform me about why you’re keen on panorama images? Just a little background on what your first passions had been, what you studied and what job you ended up doing
I really like panorama images as a result of I really like the panorama. Being outdoors and attentive is essential to my on a regular basis operate, it’s like some form of cognisant lubrication.
- First passions… Black Sabbath, Mountain Biking, Bass, Heavy Drums, Artwork, Women.
- I studied Graphic Design at Glasgow Faculty of Constructing and Printing… HND
- I studied Historical past of Artwork, Scottish Historical past and Gàidhlig at Glasgow College… However dropped out after a disagreement about what Van Gogh was feeling when he painted ‘The Potato Eaters’ …
- Performed Bass for 7 years in Croft No. 5
- Quarter Life Disaster!!! Again to the Highlands. Tree Planter, Farm Loon, Dwell SoundCrew,
- Bike Messenger, Glasgow. 5 years.
- Home Father to Brae and Struan… Half Time Internet Design, Album Covers, Pictures, Videography…
- Self Employed Artist.
- 2017- began portray once more after a hiatus of 15 years.
Dimurborgir
How simple – or troublesome – do you discover it to suit your images round work and different commitments? While you journey for work, can you dedicate any time to both images or researching new locations?
I lead a really various life, my financial dependency is fulfilled totally by my inventive endeavors. I don’t reply effectively to techniques of management. Being in a touring band in my early twenties I grew accustomed to a really inventive and free life-style. Touring the world and banging out our unique model of high-energy ethno-funk actually made the world of typical work look slightly daunting / boring / pointless. After the wheels fell off the band, I labored as a motorbike messenger for five years in Glasgow, which in itself launched me to a band of hardy and gifted folks. There was a form of magical subculture round Messengers at the moment and quite a lot of my fellow Messengers at the moment are additionally full time artists. From Contortionists, to boutique body builders and pro-level worldwide musicians the courier scene in Glasgow has produced some superb careers, I really feel blessed to have been concerned in it and the punk angle it instilled in me. My nickname (name signal) amongst the messengers was ‘Teen Wolf’ and I nonetheless howl at my mates on the street once I see them.
Kinarris Quintet, This Too
