About

I grew up in Glasgow, and some of my earliest memories are of my grandparents' house on Kelso Street, full of family, stories and old photo albums. Those albums showed me what a photograph can do: hold on to a place, a moment and the people in it, long after the day itself has passed.

I bought my first camera in 1992, a second-hand film camera, and taught myself frame by frame from books and magazines. Film was never cheap, so every frame mattered. That habit of slowing down, looking carefully and waiting for the right moment has stayed with me for more than thirty years.

Today I live in Florida, and I photograph the places that mean the most to me: the Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Skye, Florida's lakes, wetlands and coastline, and the places I have been lucky enough to travel to, from the Grand Canyon to Antarctica. Barbados holds a special place too. It is where Jackie and I were married.

My approach is simple. I wait for natural light and keep my editing gentle, so each photograph stays true to what you would have seen standing beside me. No dramatic filters, no invented skies. Just the place, as it was, in that moment.

In 2026, my photograph Two Kinds of Patience was selected for To the Sea, a juried exhibition by the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Every print is made to order on metal or acrylic by WhiteWall, an award-winning fine art lab in Germany, and arrives ready to hang.

You can find more of my work, and the stories behind these photographs, on my website, pixeltopics.com.

If one of these places stays with you, I hope it finds a home on your wall.

David