Errance - Northern Drift

Northern Drift gathers photographs made over several years in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland and Scotland.
These islands differ in history and geography but share the same experience of travel. Weather shifts constantly. Distances are hard to judge. The sea is rarely far, even when it is out of sight. Walking through these landscapes means accepting that visibility, light and direction can all change within a few minutes.
Most of these panoramas came after long walks, carrying the camera across volcanic plateaus, cliffs, valleys, coastal paths. I rarely set out chasing a specific image. The landscape sets its own pace, and the photograph often turns up where I had not expected it.
The panoramic format follows that experience. It does not try to describe a place fully. Instead it tracks how these territories slowly unfold while walking, where attention drifts from one detail to the next and the horizon keeps shifting.
Northern Drift is not a record of four countries. It is what is left after returning, walking and looking long enough for these northern landscapes to become familiar enough to photograph. 

A snow-striped mountain rises from a barren volcanic plain beneath pale mist and a muted northern sky.
Green volcanic hills and distant snow-marked peaks unfold beneath heavy, shifting storm clouds.
Dark rocks surround a small northern lake, creating islands beneath a wide sky filled with layered clouds.
A black volcanic plain scattered with stones extends toward low mountains under a flat grey sky.
Broad brown mountains streaked with snow rise beyond mossy ground beneath dramatic clouds.
A green volcanic cone stands beside a dark gravel road that crosses an austere highland landscape.
Jagged green and ochre peaks form a panoramic wall above an open treeless valley.
A gravel track follows a stream into a dark valley enclosed by steep green and black slopes.
A calm lake reflects pine trees, low hills and a pale sky in a quiet northern landscape.
Rocky islets and still pools spread across a moorland lake beneath dense storm clouds.
A silver river winds through open grassland toward a dark stand of trees and distant mountains.
A mountain loch lies between steep pyramid-shaped peaks under warm, clouded light.
A rocky shore curves around a quiet lake beneath distant serrated hills and a soft evening sky.
A green rowboat rests in tall grass beside a loch, with a small stand of pine trees across the water.
A steep grass-covered headland projects into a grey sea, its dark cliffs marking the coastline.
Sunlight breaks across a rugged mountain ridge above a brown moor beneath billowing clouds.
Light falls through dark clouds onto a snow-covered plateau, dissolving the distant horizon.
A narrow stream and fence cross a windswept valley beneath rounded, treeless mountains.
A weathered fence and gate follow the edge of a dark lake surrounded by tawny northern hills.
Dark pools reflect the sky across a mossy plateau framed by distant mountains and low clouds.
An isolated conical mountain rises from a barren valley under a softly coloured evening sky.
A boulder-strewn plateau overlooks the sea and silhouetted islands beneath warm fading light.
A small harbour lies between snow-covered slopes beside calm steel-blue water.
A wet coastal road curves along a fjord beneath steep mountains patterned with fresh snow.
A wire fence and scattered stones disappear across a snow-covered field into dense white fog.
A lake fills a deep basin between layered slopes dusted with snow beneath a pale winter sky.
A frozen pool lies among tawny grass and snow beneath broad terraced mountains.
A long fjord reaches between layered, snow-dusted slopes under a turbulent northern sky.
A stone slipway and steep steps climb between dark cliffs toward a small coastal settlement.
A solitary building and winding road fade into falling snow across an exposed white landscape.
A snow-dusted valley opens toward the sea, framing a small island beneath a cold blue-grey sky.
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