Category Archives: The back catalogue

How long can you afford to wait? NB

Posted on April 7, 2010 by niallbenvie

It’s a fairly harmless picture, shot in September 1990 but one that buyers shunned completely until 2006 when it was picked up for a power company calendar. Stock is a long term business (perhaps even more so today), but one … Continue reading →

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Seeing a way through (2005) NB

Posted on February 21, 2010 by niallbenvie

Sometimes we need to move back a little from the screen to see the picture more clearly.

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Biting the hand. (2003). NB

Posted on December 15, 2009 by niallbenvie

I was amused by the picture of Mark Hamblin slowly being eaten alive (and enjoying it) by a young pine marten on Pete Cairns’s website recently. It put me in mind of a series of pictures I took a few … Continue reading →

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Waxwing, Wester Ross. 2000. NB.

Posted on November 19, 2009 by niallbenvie

Praise for your work, of course, is always welcome, especially from people who know what they are talking about. But it is never more welcome than from others whose own work, you know deep down, is actually better in many … Continue reading →

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Life BC (1997)

Posted on October 1, 2009 by niallbenvie

…in this case Before Children. I took this picture in Glen Affric, Inverness-shire about 10 days before my son was born. It was at the end of a frantic summer’s work round Scotland, driven by the well-founded expectation that life … Continue reading →

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Folding sheep (2004)

Posted on September 3, 2009 by niallbenvie

I made a trip to the Outer Hebrides a few years ago with the fine Norwegian photographer Pål Hermansen, a trip in which he made over 8000 digital images in 6 days (as well as infra-red,  black and white, colour … Continue reading →

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Glen Esk. 2005.

Posted on August 10, 2009 by niallbenvie

The popular view of wild Scotland is of heather (Calluna vulgaris) covered hillsides stretching away to the horizon. Photogenic as it may be, natural it is not: heather is normally an understory shrub in woodland rather than a monoculture and … Continue reading →

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Finger flowers. 2004.

Posted on July 26, 2009 by niallbenvie

A fore-runner of the main work for Rewilding Childhood, I made this picture of my son’s hand bedecked with foxglove blooms before I knew that the Swedish name for this plant is in fact “finger flower”. The inspiration come from … Continue reading →

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Best selling bunny. 1995.

Posted on July 5, 2009 by niallbenvie

Well, here it is: the second best-selling picture (the first is a red squirrel) in what I loosely refer to as my “career”, so far. It is one of the few Kodachrome 200 survivors in the archive but continues to … Continue reading →

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Moricsala island, Latvia. 2002.

Posted on June 27, 2009 by niallbenvie

I think of all the forests I have visited in Europe, the  strictly protected 83 ha Moricsala island in Lake Usma, Latvia, is the most hallowed. Untouched for over 300 years, it has the most fantastically rich ground flora. It … Continue reading →

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