Alan Gordon is a landscape and nature photographer based near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. He lives within easy reach of what many would consider the most beautiful, dramatic and wild areas of Britain and has spent much of his life climbing, walking and photographing amongst the mountains of Scotland.

This web site is a representative collection of his images, some of which have appeared in print elsewhere. His work has been used in a wide range of publications including books, magazines and calendars as well as in advertising and promotional material. He also produced and published the Scottish Mountains Calendar series for four consecutive years before pressures of other work forced a temporary halt; the calendar has now been taken on by a commercial publishing house, still using his images.

When he first took up photography, digital equipment was virtually unknown. His first serious camera was an Olympus OM2, later followed by an OM4. These were small, tough and beautifully built and, although the OM2 failed to survive when accidentally bounced 100m down the side of a Cairngorm coire, the OM4 put up with everything until finally being retired. In the interim it had been joined by a Fuji GSW690 and a Pentax 67, the latter being replaced some years ago with a Fuji GX617 panoramic. In 2006 he finally succumbed to the modern world and moved to digital with the Nikon D2X.

The great bulk of his photographic work has been in Scotland, and there are few parts of the Highlands that he has not recorded. The area's climate gives the kind of conditions which can produce wonderful lighting one minute, followed by days of disappointment. By far the best times for landscape photography are the couple of hours after sunrise and before sunset, and for many years he has made a point of camping or bivouacing high in the mountains to try to capture these. This can be a frustrating business; one question frequently asked by people who bought the calendars is how he managed to get such good weather, but what they don't see are the many occasions when the sunrise just doesn't happen, when the clouds descend at the wrong moment, when the gales do their best to ensure that even a tripod can't hold the camera steady enough. That, however, is all part of the mountain experience and what makes them such a priceless environment.

If you have any comments on the design, the content or any other aspect of the site I would be very pleased to hear them. I would welcome any suggestions on how it could be improved.

A guestbook is planned but until this is set up perhaps I could ask anyone who wishes to comment to e-mail me.