Plateau-lands N38º 18’ 48” W109º 51’ 28” 6,295’
Escarpment - on the edge N37º 36’ 47” W112º 50’ 18” 10,350’
After the ice II N37º 48’ 40” W119º 29’ 09” 8495’
High and dry N36º 19’ 00” W117º 40’ 08” 7,476’
Storm out there N24º 55’ 38” W080º 37’ 19” at sea level
Low tide N49º 57’ 11” W006º 20’ 19” at sea level
Looking westwards N50º 07’ 30” W005º 42’ 45” at sea level
Land, sea, sky N50º 13’ 00” W004º 51’ 00” at sea level
Turn of the tide N50º 02’ 20” W005º 38’ 50” at sea level
After the ice I N53º 05’ 54” W004º 01’ 50” 3,300’
Dead end N38º 42’ 26” W109º 22’ 51” 4,270’
Forest lake N40º 29’ 38” W121º 25’ 26” 6,684’
Carve-up N38º 20’ 45” W109º 51’ 37” 6315’
Wild and vast N43º 07’ 20” W124º 25’ 43” at sea level
Peacefully peer into the past N38º 22’ 46” W109º 51’ 24” 6,019’
Looking out N51º 23’ 64” W003º 30’ 51” at sea level
Looking Westwards N51º 23’ 34” W003º 28’ 58” 135’
Looking Southwards N51º 23’ 51” W003º 30’ 33” at sea level
Along the edge of the land N51º 23’ 41” W003º 29’ 43” at sea level
Michael Jay was born in Wales and raised in a small town on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan. The dramatic geology of the local coastline had an early influence and he was fortunate to be able to study geology at high school and then at the University of London.
An all-consuming interest in rock climbing and mountaineering led to extensive travels, bringing him most notably, to the cliffs of Britain’s Cornwall on the one hand and the mountains of California on the other. These activities set the scene for a varied, adventure-led career, combining business and pleasure in a restless, never-stand-still lifestyle. Photographs taken on explorations and adventures were processed, analyzed and described and then packaged as educational slide-sets to be sold to geography and geology teachers. More recently, he has become part of the flourishing fine art gallery scene, with outlets in Cornwall and Wales and regular promotions in North America.
Michael Jay lives and works near St-Just-Penwith, Britain’s most westerly town close to the south western extremity known as Land’s End.
Images of the Wilderness and Wide Open Spaces
“My wilderness is one where nature rules; dominating and overwhelming any human presence. I have been photographing wilderness scenes for almost 30 years, though this collection of images dates from the spring of 1996 to late 2005. The images reflect my lifelong interest in geology and scenery, my involvement with photography since childhood and my love of wild, remote and rugged places.
“All of these images were originally captured on transparency film through medium format cameras. The transparencies have been printed on to archival photographic paper. In most images, the photographer is the sole representative of the human domain. But where human influence intrudes, it should emphasize the wilderness setting.
“In this sense and in the context of wilderness, place names are human labels and have been omitted. But in order that these places can be located and referred to (or, even better, visited) on the Face of Earth, latitude, longitude and altitude co-ordinates of the camera position at the time of image capture are given, along with a simple description of what is being featured.”
