Today I came across the website of Ted Leeming and Morag Patterson http://www.leemingpaterson.com/ and was struck by their approach to impressionist photographs. They reminded me very much of some I made on Tiree last May. The crucial elements of what attracts me to the place is the combination of light, the land, the sea, the sand and those places where the sea shows the most stunning colours where is sits over sand. Perhaps our search for fine detail and sharpness takes us away from those eleme we find most appealing. There seem to be three main routes to producing these effects: De-focus, camera movement during exposure and manipulation in Photoshop. Horses for courses seems to be the moral and whichever approach gives the image you have in your head.