The fertile low-lying coastal grassland found in the Outer Hebrides and parts of the north west Scottish mainland is called ‘machair’. Free draining shell-rich sandy soil gives rise to a rich variety of plants including Red clover Trifolium pratense, Horse-shoe vetch Hippocrepis comosa and several orchid species. Machair is an internationally recognised important and rare habitat for many butterfly and moth species, and birds such as the corncrake
Mark Hamblin has worked as a freelance nature photographer since 1995, creating images for international photographic agencies; providing specialist guiding services and working on multi-media conservation projects.
Mark has published and collaborated on several books including Wild Peak, Wild Land - Images of nature from the Cairngorms, Tooth & Claw and 2020VISION. He was also a contributing photographer for the Wild Wonders of Europe project working on stories in Lithuania and The Netherlands.
Mark is a director of the social enterprise company, Wild Media Foundation, who produce communications material for a range of clients as well as working on their own projects. Their current project, SCOTLAND: The Big Picture amplifies the case for a wilder Scotland, and Mark is part of a team of photographers and videographers currently gathering material for a range of media products.
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