About Still Light Designs
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| Every time I venture out I look forward to the challenge of capturing the raw emotion inside when I'm faced with the shear beauty of the world we live in. Whether it is the exposure of a steep ridge at 4000 metres, the tranquility of large sweeping vistas or the secretive world of the local wildlife I can't help but feel lucky to be there. My wife Rebecca and I both have a deep love for the mountains and the great outdoors and spend a lot of time in Scotland, The Lake District and The Alps. We are both keen climbers and mountain bike riders. This mixed with my background in commercial illustration inspired me to try and capture these moments in print and now share them with you. Living in Newcastle in the North East of England we are nicely situated to be able to get over to the Lake District or Scotland with relative ease. We try to get to the Lake District at least once a fortnight and make several wild camping trips to the summits there each year. Our trips to Scotland start in September and run through to May, we never wild camp in Scotland in the summer due to the dreaded midges! Winter is our preferred time with the frosty mornings, snow covered peaks and bags of photo opportunities not to mention the great climbing. You get a real feeling of being out there in the winter, the remoteness, tranquility and scale of the Scottish wilderness is truly awe inspiring, these are the days we live for. This Blog is just as much about what we do as about my photography. The snap shots of when we are out and about on the hills, stuck in sub zero temperatures in a tent or out climbing on the crag or the local bouldering wall.Basically, it's about how I get the photographs you see on my website. You may have gathered by now that my photography isn't about setting up a manufactured shot or creating and image in Photoshop, it's about capturing something that is real, a way to share what the mountains are all about, their remoteness and shear beauty. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your time here and feel free to contribute. Duncan Andison |