Bio
My interest in photography really began over ten years ago whilst I was studying Media and Communication at Kilmarnock College. One aspect of the course involved taking black & white photos with an old 35mm Pentax SLR camera, then developing the negatives and making enlargements from them in the darkroom using chemicals.
At that time I travelled to the beautiful Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast, where I enjoyed a whole week of taking photographs of the coastline and all the whisky distilleries. It was a magical time for me and from that moment on I knew that photography would always be a part of my life.
I also developed an interest in writing local history and combined this with my photograpy. Illustrated articles have been published in The Scots Magazine and Scottish Memories magazine which are both sold and circulated worldwide.
I have also written a number of illustrated postcard books such as Old Darvel, Old Newmilns, Old Galston, Old Girvan and Old South Ayrshire Villages. These were compiled for a publishing company in Ayrshire called Stenlake Publishing and I'm also writing another new book on south Ayrshire villages / towns which will be due out in the spring / summer of 2010.
In Sept 2002 a portfolio of farming images were published in Amateur Photographer magazine and more recently photographs have appeared in a local calendar, Scottish Memories magazine and in the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper.
The Ayrshire Photo Gallery was created to showcase my work to a much broader audience and is a website where people can happily spend some time looking at the photographs and also enjoy reading the interesting captions.
I now shoot mostly in digital using the RAW format to obtain the highest possible quality but on the odd occasion I still like to use my old film cameras. I enjoy capturing landscapes and taking portraits but as you will see from my work I shoot a rich variety of subjects including graffiti and agricultural.
Please enjoy your time spent browsing through the Galleries and I promise to add new images on a regular basis.
Hugh Maxwell
At that time I travelled to the beautiful Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast, where I enjoyed a whole week of taking photographs of the coastline and all the whisky distilleries. It was a magical time for me and from that moment on I knew that photography would always be a part of my life.
I also developed an interest in writing local history and combined this with my photograpy. Illustrated articles have been published in The Scots Magazine and Scottish Memories magazine which are both sold and circulated worldwide.
I have also written a number of illustrated postcard books such as Old Darvel, Old Newmilns, Old Galston, Old Girvan and Old South Ayrshire Villages. These were compiled for a publishing company in Ayrshire called Stenlake Publishing and I'm also writing another new book on south Ayrshire villages / towns which will be due out in the spring / summer of 2010.
In Sept 2002 a portfolio of farming images were published in Amateur Photographer magazine and more recently photographs have appeared in a local calendar, Scottish Memories magazine and in the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper.
The Ayrshire Photo Gallery was created to showcase my work to a much broader audience and is a website where people can happily spend some time looking at the photographs and also enjoy reading the interesting captions.
I now shoot mostly in digital using the RAW format to obtain the highest possible quality but on the odd occasion I still like to use my old film cameras. I enjoy capturing landscapes and taking portraits but as you will see from my work I shoot a rich variety of subjects including graffiti and agricultural.
Please enjoy your time spent browsing through the Galleries and I promise to add new images on a regular basis.
Hugh Maxwell