An evening of photography

Alex Boyd, who is North Ayrshire’s Artist in Residence, gave an intriguing talk at the Ormidale Pavilion last Wednesday. He is a landscape photographer, but of an unusual kind, experimenting with the use of silvered plates as happened in the first days of the craft, and getting himself to some very odd places. Climbing mountains with a huge clutter of cameras and tripods comes as natural, it seems, and there were one or two dizzying shots of Alex perched on impossible peaks.