For my research on the coast I decided to look at the work of Joe Cornish who photographed all 6,000-miles of the Scottish coastline. Both photographing the National Trust sites in Scotland, but also many others featured are privately owned; some, like the majestic Cuillins on Skye, are well-known to tourists, others are hidden coves or remote sea stacks that few visitors will ever have seen. Whatever the subject, be it a wide Hebridean vista or fragmentary patterns of ice on a frozen beach, Joe Cornish, with his artist's eye and his dramatic use of light, helps us to look at it afresh and reveals new and unsuspected beauties. In the text which accompanies his photographs he explains the aspects of each particular landscape that made it special to him, its geology, its flora, its history or its associations and how his 35mm camera has made it possible to tell people about these places.
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