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Murray Livingston
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Professional #landscape and #nature #photographer based in the #UK. South African. Storyteller. Adventurer.

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Over the last few years, I've been on a journey to explore some of Southern Africa's wildest places, from ancient Canyons to the Drakensberg. These expeditions explore inner and outer landscapes: they are about tracking my wild-self, storytelling around the campfire […]

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a backlit lion cub standing up and paying attention while basking in the morning sunlight enormous cliff faces of the drakensberg mountains in south africa bathed in the red glow of sunrise the great escarpment of the drakensberg mountains at sunrise, covered in pink and golden light. a ridge of jagged peaks extends across the frame resting in the shade of an Ana tree deep in a remote Namibian canyon as the light filters through its ancient limbs and leaves
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Samhain [sow-wen]: the ancient Celtic festival that marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter — the moment when Beira the Cailleach, Queen of Winter, regains control over the landscape from the Queen of Summer, Brigid. It also marks the moment when the veil […]

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a black and white mountain photograph from the scottish highlands. gneiss rocks catching sunlight sweep diagonally in the foreground while a rainstorm approaches over mountains and distant lochs in the back ground. overall, a dramatic moody scene
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I'm back on the islands and there is a significant chill in the northerly winds this morning, but I love it. The changing seasons makes me feel alive. This image was made a few years ago as part of my project "Machair" when I rushed over to catch the last of a big […]

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a snow capped hill sits centrally in the background of this coastal photograph, with streaks of dark peat in the foreground running like veins through the white sand. The ocean is tumultuous and frothy with winter rage.
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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If you couldn't tell, I've been photographing a lot of Scottish mountains lately. Here's one from a rather turbulent day on a remote peak in the northwest highlands. There's something about the folklore and history of these spaces that deeply interests me. Images like […]

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sharp sweeping gneiss rock comes in from the bottom right of the foreground leading down a mountain ridge. it is bathed in warm sunlight. the view leads out to a mountain summit in the dark shadow of an oncoming storm with a subtle rainbow coming in from the right hand side
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The northwest Scottish Highlands at it best, viewed from a very remote wee hilltop. Pre-dawn light really complimented this scene nicely, creating a lovely glow across the gneiss and lochan in the foreground. Pictured are Ruadh Stac Mor (Big Red Stack), a clear change […]

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a photograph of the remote northwest scottish highlands, featuring a sweeping foreground of gneiss, autumnal coloured deer grass, a wee lochan on the right hand side. These elements all converge towards two mountains in the distance. The scene is illuminated by soft glowing pre-dawn light with clear skies above.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sometimes the classic views are classic for a reason! This image is just before sunset from a recent summit camp in Torridon with pretty spectacular photographic conditions. It was awesome to finally get this location in good light - one that I had previously […]

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Sgurr Mor at sunset atop Beinn Alligin in Torridon from a recent summit wild camp. Bulbous torridonian sandstone dominates the foreground with fractures that lead the eye out to a conical peak bathed in golden sunset light. mostly clear skies lie above with a few dotted clouds around and some colourful haze in the distance.
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"Battle of The Cailleach and Brigid", from a hugely successful Northwest Highlands Photography Adventure a couple weeks ago.

The reviews have also started to come in: "[The trip was] beyond anything I could have imagined. The scenery was absolutely stunning—remote […]

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a dramatic scottish highlands scene of a wide glen bordered by mountains. Dark looming storm clouds rush in off the coast while a burst of light strikes from the right, causing a rainbow right over the central loch and beautiful colours of gold and blue across the photo.
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Pinebow, Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest (2024).

The cover image for my 2026 Calendar collaboration with Trees for Life! A spectacular evening spent exploring some of the native pine remnants on the west coast with a double rainbow to boot. This area is […]

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A double rainbow frames sunlit scots pine trees in the foreground. a loch appears in the distance with a large mountain in deep shadow overhead, flanked by moody clouds. overall a dramatic scene of the scottish highlands.
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I'm extremely excited to have teamed up with Trees for Life, a Scottish Rewilding Charity, to provide all 12 images for their 2026 Calendar! You can pre-order a copy today to support a great nature-positive cause […]

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trees for life 2026 calendar: Scotland's wild forest with 12 images by photographer murray livingston.
October 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The Quiver Tree Forest of South Africa. What an exceptional place: otherworldly, strange, slightly eerie, but utterly fascinating. It's somewhere I'll continue to return to again and again; there's nothing quite like the solitude and quietness of the Karoo desert […]

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an orange burst of sunset through a large old quiver tree, with the desert fading off into the distance and blue skies with high clouds above. twilight in the quiver tree forest as the fading sunset softly illuminates the side of a quiver tree. the perspective of the photograph is right underneath the tree's canopy, with a reaching branch framing the view of a distant hill. The moon glows through high clouds backlit quiver trees stand shoulder to shoulder along a ridgeline glowing in the rising sun. a photograph from deep in the quiver tree forest; a gulley has been eroded by flash floods dotted with small bushes. the view is framed by trees on the left and right and opens up in the middle to a flat topped hill in the distance. wispy high clouds adorn a brilliant blue sky
August 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#silentsunday

#photography #uk #scotland #forest #trees #travel #nature
Backlit trees in the ancient caledonian forest of scotland in peak autumn colour. yellow birches glow and dark pines are illuminated only on their edges creating striking silhouettes.
August 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Happy #worldphotographyday !

This is one of my favourite images from last autumn in Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest. In the dark of morning, I hiked up this pathless steep sided hill to gain a view over the magnificent glen beyond and was treated to an […]

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a vertical format photograph of an autumnal scottish glen, with a foreground of orange grasses and rocks, scots pine saplings, leading to a wider glen featuring lochs and mountains beyond. sunrise light cuts across the scene with puffy clouds above
August 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Rocklands Sunrise, South Africa (2025). Gorgeous light spilling through this enchanted landscape.

#landscape #nature #landscapephotography #photography #southafrica
a sunrise crests a rocky ridgeline, bursting with light. the foreground is covered in fine plants and white flowers just beginning to catch the morning warmth. sandstone cliffs roll from left to right.
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Two frozen birch trees in Scotland's regenerating Caledonian Forest gesturing to each other on a steep bank.

Just incredible conditions to explore this glen.

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A photograph of two winter birch trees in fog. The trees angle inwards towards each other on a steep heathery bank; everything in the image is covered in a brilliant white frost.
August 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Light, rain, ancient pines, mountains, snow dusted peaks... Scotland at its finest.

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an ancient pine tree lines the heathered bank of a small river stream, with light spilling in from the sunrise to the east onto conical snowcapped mountains in the distance.
August 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Fisherfield Birch, Scotland (2024).

Last minute availability! Due to a cancellation, 1x place has opened up to join myself and Benjamin Maze this September 2025 on a photography backpacking adventure into the remotest part of Scotland's Northwest Highlands. See […]

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The view as you head over a small plateau and down this small gulch is extraordinary: a sweeping glen opens up, resplendent with lochs, looming mountains, and even remnants of the Ancient Caledonian Forest. On our trip, we'll be visiting the far side of these impressive remote peaks. This image was made at sunset just as the last of the light was backlighting the foreground birch tree's young spring leaves.
July 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Brad Carr and I spent a few days exploring the Scottish Caledonian #forest as preparation for our photography retreat there later this year. Two 4am sunrises were fruitful in finding areas of interest that will be ideal for autumn colour, as well as talking through […]

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A complex summer woodland scene with a sea of verdant green ferns in the foreground and a row of swaying birch trees arranged across the frame. A photograph of multi-stemmed birch tree with bright green leaves backlit by the rising sun. The background is the still reflection of the loch beyond, offsetting the silhouette of the birch tree in the foreground nicely. a wider loch-side scene of windswept grasses, rocks, and birch trees surrounding a peninsula. there are a number of petrified tree stumps indicating the rising and falling of the loch's water level and the recent regeneration of the woodland.
July 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Along the Orange River, April 2025.

Some images from a brilliant few days at a friend's farm earlier this year. What a special & remote place. As one of the longest in Southern Africa, the Orange River runs from its source high in the Drakensberg Mountains for 2432km […]

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A burst of sunrise light peaks out over the horizon in a sunstar, flooding the foreground grasses with light. The grasses have large seed heads which are illuminated and glowing interspersed by a rocky landscape. rocks and lush green grass flow through the foreground leading out to a river in the distance with small rolling hills. the image was made in blue hour with the band of venus and earth shadow in the sky creating wonderful pastel colours throughout the frame A slice of the orange river is seen far in the distance, but the focus of the image is soft pre-dawn light across a rolling green landscape dotted with small shrubs and trees. Prominent rocks and beautiful detailed grasses catch afternoon the light right along side the Orange River which flows diagonally through the frame. A partly cloudy blue sky day overhead contrasts the colours of the orange rocks in the foreground.
July 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Images from an amazing stay at Sanbona Dwyka Tented Camp in May, one of many unique stops on my Western Cape photo safaris. We had an action packed three days on the #wildlife reserve, including female lionesses on a Kudu carcass, approaching cheetah cubs on foot, and […]

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a lionness after feeding with a face marked by kudu blood, walking through lush colour fynbos plants. Rolling green hills catching morning light in south africa. a lionness rests after feeding on a kudu, basking in some gentle light with a wide open vista beyond backlit elephants approaching out of the thick bush, with one large adult leading the pack
July 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Ah, summer in the Highlands! What a joy it was to spend the last few weeks exploring some of my favourite glens in resplendent greens and golden light. These last years I've spent much of my efforts focused on the other "better" seasons (this is of course a fallacy) […]

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Two scots pine trees stand on a small hill illuminated by morning side light. the glen drops steeply behind them before rising again in the distance, covered in ancient forest. the foreground features regenerating ground cover, with bracken, birch, pines, and heather.
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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It's been a minute since I posted... Here's an overlooked image I've just found while looking back at photos from the Isle of Harris for an upcoming article about long-term projects.

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A winter scene from the Isle of Harris, Scotland. Golden light rakes across wind strewn marram grasses in the foreground while clouds float above the island of taransay off in the distance. Dark moody ocean lies between the two, dramatically contrasted by the ground covered head to toe in snow.
June 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Nestled Gems, Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest (2024).

Some brilliant ferns caught my attention, followed by the central pine perfectly fitting within the shape of a golden birch tree beyond, all sat in a framed view of the wider forest. Awesome conditions in a […]

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An autumn woodland scene with brilliant golden ferns in the foreground leading you down a steep slope to a central Scots pine tree. The view is framed by yellow birches and the wider Caledonian forest lies beyond.
May 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"The Sound of Rain", Scotland (2024).

From an early morning scout down on a loch shore, I initially went to see what these small ponds would look like facing in the complete other direction. When I approached on foot, I came over a small crest and was suddenly […]

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Raindrops cover the surface of a pond surrounded by autumnal heather and grasses. The scene is framed by a triangular wintery mountain peak basking in morning light and a scattering of ancient pine trees.
May 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A Scots Pine basking in early morning light. From the Ancient Caledonian Forest, autumn 2024.

#treetuesday #trees #woodlandphotography #scotland #uk #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography
A single scots pine tree sits on a little mound basking in morning light in the bottom half of the frame. A steep slope runs in the background, covered in yellow birch trees in shadow.
April 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A steep slope of bronzed bracken remained in deep shadow against a collection of backlit birch trees. A gentle fog was lifting creating atmospherics and bringing out the vibrancy of the golden leaves. I remember it was very important to me to include the entirety of […]

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A tender scene from a calming morning spent in the Caledonian Forest, Autumn 2024. Golden leaves, bronzed ferns, light, and fog. What more can you ask for! Myself and Brad Carr are hosting an autumn photography creative retreat exploring these Scottish woodlands later this year — there are just 4 places left!
April 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM