TITLE: Thresholds

Discover moments when Scottish lochs become membranes between states of matter,

Where stones puncture reflected skies and mist renders the permanent provisional. At Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms, I found landscapes that refuse their own solidity—mountains that dissolve, water that becomes architecture, rocks that float between presence and absence.

The work centres on a fundamental inversion: reflections that contain more luminosity and substance than their sources. Below the water's surface, skies achieve densities impossible above, while the mirrored world holds details the actual world surrenders to mist. These aren't ambiguities but demonstrations of how appearance operates at the threshold between states..

Working in monochrome reveals tonal architectures impossible in colour, allowing subtle gradations to carry both structural and emotional weight. This reduction matches the austere discipline of the Cairngorms themselves—a subarctic plateau where excess has been stripped away by wind and ice.

The resulting images achieve a profound stillness, a calm where familiar topographies become otherworldly without romantic mystification. They reveal landscape not as fixed geography but as continuous process, where even the most enduring features exist in ongoing exchange with time, weather, and light.

AUTHOR: Miles Hewitt-Boorman (United Kingdom)