BIOLOGIST and photographer John Ford has spent more than 40 years creating a remarkable documentary celebration of the diversity of an unimproved northern hay meadow at the edge of the Cairngorms.

His Glen Fender Meadow photographic exhibition is show at Coniston's Brantwood where John focuses on the unique meadow, which is close to Blair Atholl, the Perthshire village where Ruskin and Effie spent the first night after their marriage in 1848.