Iain Macduffie

Though I was born in England, where my father had been posted with the Royal Highland Regiment The Black Watch, I am a proud Scot and it’s in Scotland where I do all of my work, living now as I do close to the southern shore of the Moray Firth an inlet of the North Sea on the North-East coast.
Living where I do I'm surrounded on all sides by natural beauty but, though I've been walking on and casually photographing the Scottish Highlands, - my cathedrals - for most of my life, photography was nothing more than an adjunct to the hill habit. So, following a career in the Royal Air Force Regiment (air force equivalent of a marine), where I had been known for the occasional foray in to creative writing, it wasn’t to photography (or indeed body-guarding, which I had trained to do) but to screenwriting that I turned. And so it was going to be until, while wresting my brain during a screenplay re-write, I had cause to flick through an old album of hill photographs… and had an epiphany!
Entirely self-taught, I initially took up traditional fine art colour landscape photography and continue in that vein if serendipity serves up a keeper, but I was never happy just making photographs where mother-nature did much of the work. I needed to...