by Colin Usher | Jul 1, 2024
TIME AND TIDE A long-term and ongoing project of over 15 years exploring tidal areas and inhabitants. I concentrate on producing images that are not just descriptive but also create a feeling in the viewer – maybe of how it feels to be a wader or just one of...
by Colin Usher | Jul 1, 2024
YTHAN Moving from the vast Morecambe Bay to the more enclosed Ythan estuary means working with fewer birds but with more colour and varied reflections. My palette comes from striped fields, various trees, dunes and even buildings. The light is special, I am sure, due...
by Colin Usher | Jul 1, 2024
SEABIRD Related to time and tide, seabird is perhaps more about the individuals who return from deep sea to the land to breed. Hours of watching and absorbing the sounds and smells lead to a sense of immersion in their ways and nature. I return to the sites year on...
by Colin Usher | Jul 1, 2024
SAND EEL Famously the food of puffins, terns and other seabirds, sand eels, it turns out, are in fact fish. I spotted a shoal in the crystal turquoise waters of the Isle of Gigha. I spent two and a half days observing and mesmerised by the shape shifting. Accepting...
by Colin Usher | Jul 1, 2024
OUT OF THE BLUE A series of images made during two six week periods staying in a cottage on the coast kindly loaned to me by friends. Situated on the edge of Morecambe Bay the huge skies and strange tides gave rise to an obsessive inability to do anything but watch...
