Lewis and Harris form the largest island of the Outer Hebrides, off the northwest coast of Scotland. I spent a week here in February 2023, driving the single-track roads between the rugged east coast of Harris and the wide, white-sand beaches of the west.

The weather was relentless and constantly changing: Atlantic storms giving way to sudden blue skies, then closing in again within the hour. The landscape shifts just as dramatically, from the ancient gneiss rock and peat bogs of Lewis to the almost Caribbean-looking bays of Luskentyre and Seilebost. These photographs come from that week of chasing light across one of the most elemental coastlines I’ve worked on.

I wrote about the unexpected joy of working in conditions like these in Stabs of Joy, and about the broader experience of wonder in the Field Notes.