Margaret Mcatier Photography

I have decided to throw in an occasional post based on a quote  about photography ….. being a photographer communicating by imagery comes naturally to me whereas words are sometimes a little slower to come …  Photography has always been part of my life ever since bought my first camera at the age of 17 without the knowledge of where it would eventually take me. Whether shooting landscapes or weddings,  photography is my passion and creating beautiful imagery my motivation.  I will be posting a series of quotes accompanied by one of my own photos chosen simply because it I like them . Here’s the first

” I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important ”

Jacques- Henri Lartique

The day after Susie and Donalds wedding I had the luxury of spending the day at various locations in Caithness with Susie.The area gave us a variety of unusual and creative  backdrops  for the images which made up the day after shoot.   Luckily the weather was also on our side and Susie made a  great model

I was recently reading the blog of Rhiannon Connelly   Starrybluesky whose latest blog post was from an idea of Gwen Bell’s  which can be seen here . The challenge Gwen sets out is to look back on your year. ” A time for reflection. A time to make new friends ”

So I will  try to blog on a few of the suggestions, the first one being appropriately

Dec 19 #best car ride

My chosen car ride is not particularly amazing but just simply a journey road which takes me from my home village of Ullapool… well..to anywhere really . Just one road south so I travel it many a time .. on this occasion for a  meeting with at Tulloch Castle Hotel.

A particularly beautiful morning  … its not often that I am inspired enough to stop at the side of the road and take a photo .

I received news  a month ago that an image entered into the national MPA print awards achieved an award of excellence. The image was shot locally at Loch Glascarnoch during an unusually dry spell . The Loch, usually filled with water, occasionally gets low enough to expose old tree roots and  provides a  very different backdrop for a shoot

Whilst in Uist this summer I took a  series of images on the beaches on the island. For once I was delighted to find some stormy weather which provided dramatic skies and fast changing light across  the  beautiful and mostly deserted beaches . Most shots were taken at Traigh Lingeigh and West Beach in Berneray.