Luskentyre Bay, Harris: ICM photograph on canvas

I can recognise Lusketyre Bay, on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, just from the colours. The clarity of the water, the fast moving weather that gives an intensity to the sky and its reflections, the pinky purple of the peat coming down from the hills into the sand and sea… the colours look unreal, but they’re not.

This ICM photograph whistles me back in my mind to one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

ICM in photography means internationally moving the camera to blur and thus emphasise the feeling - essence, perhaps - of the subject by reducing detail.

This image is printed onto stretched canvas, 107 x 71 cm.