Dwarfed!

This shot of my family in the vastness of the countryside seems appropriate, somehow, to our times. We talk ourselves into importance and use the earth’s resources to destruction - and even as we despoil our planet we derive a sense of our own might.

But even in this small corner of Argyll, in the Victorian grand design of Benmore’s formal garden, we realise how tiny we are.

Destructive fleas...