ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" /> <title>Landscape Photography - Stornoway, Isle of Lewis - Mike Shailes</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Scottish, Stornoway, Images, art prints, Landscape Photography, photos, Beach, gallery, Sunsets, inspirational prints" /> <meta name="description" content="Original landscape photo prints for purchase online." /> <meta http-equiv="title" content="Landscape Photography - Stornoway, Isle of Lewis - Mike Shailes" /> <link href="http://mikeshailes.co.uk/support/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: black;" link="#000099" alink="#000099" vlink="#990099"> <body> <div id="container"> <table background="support/bg_inside.jpg" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="900"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="support/mike-shailes-photography.jpg" alt="Mike Shailes Photography logo" /> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="172"><!-- container for left section--><!-- start left column. --> <div id="leftcol"> <table class="moduletable" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="top">Main menu</th> </tr> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="index.html" class="mainlevel" title="Home">Home</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="wedding-photographer-stornoway.html" class="mainlevel" title="Online Gallery">Weddings</a></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="scottish-landscape-prints.html" class="mainlevel" title="Online Gallery">Online Gallery</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="about-mike.html" class="mainlevel" id="active_menu" title="About the Photographer">About the Photographer</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="buting-information.html" class="mainlevel" title="Buying Information">Buying Information</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="portrait-photos-stornoway.html" class="mainlevel" title="Portraiture">Portraiture</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="commercial-photographer-stornoway.html" class="mainlevel" title="Product Photography">Product Photography</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="hebrides-image-library.html" class="mainlevel" title="Product Photography">Press Images</a></td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="http://ww9.aitsafe.com/cf/review.cfm?userid=B885973&amp;return=www.mikeshailes.co.uk/index.html" class="mainlevel" title="View Basket">View Basket</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="http://ww9.aitsafe.com/cf/review.cfm?userid=B885973&amp;return=www.mikeshailes.co.uk/index.html" class="mainlevel" title="Checkout">Checkout</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="contact-details.html" class="mainlevel" title="Contact Details">Contact Details</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="send-a-message.html" class="mainlevel" title="Send a Message">Send a Message</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="links.html" class="mainlevel" title="Weblinks">Weblinks</a> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td><a href="sitemap.html" class="mainlevel" title="Sitemap">Sitemap</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"><br /> <br /> <br /> </div> </div> <!-- end left column. --><!-- end container for left section--> </td> <td><!-- start container for centre section--><!-- start main body --> <div id="content_main"> <span class="pathway">About the Photographer</span> <table class="contentpaneopen" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="98%"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="contentheading">About Mike </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 175px; height: 306px; float: right;" alt="Grandad" src="support/grandad1.jpg" hspace="8" vspace="8" /></p> <p>For many years, my grandfather walked the Lake District and Scotland's Borders, capturing the landscape on early colour transparency film. My father, too, produced a fine collection of photographs documenting life in West Africa.<br /> <br /> So it was hardly surprising that I inherited a passion for photography. <br /> <br /> In my early years, I could often be seen cycling around my village, using the camera my grandfather had given me to snap the people and scenes that caught my interest.<br /> <br /> After studying photography at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, I was employed as a professional landscape photographer, producing large format images for books, calendars and picture postcards.</p> <p>In the early 1990s, I travelled to a major Paris&nbsp;<br /> studio to learn about the newly emerging digital technology, then was among the pioneers of digital imaging in the UK, producing some of the earliest published digital photography and giving demonstrations to photographers throughout Scotland and England. A series of monochrome portraits, which I shot in Edinburgh, are thought to be the first instantaneous digital portraits taken in the UK.<br /> <br /> Following around thirty years in the photographic and media industry, I moved to the Isle of Lewis, to pursue my vocation, creating novel landscape images that are made possible by the unique light that illuminates the Western Isles.&nbsp; I'm also planning some documentary work here, as I'm very interested in social and workplace portraiture.<br /> <br /> All of my photographs are printed on 100% rag, acid free, fine art paper of high archival quality. 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