'Northwesterly 4, backing southwesterly 5 or 6. Rain later. Good becoming moderate.'

Images from The Shipping Forecast are 15 x 15 inches on 16 x 20 inch paper, sold in an edition of 15.

The photographs are mounted to 16 x 20 inch mounts, screenprinted with the shipping forecast of the day the photograph was taken.

Intangible and mysterious, familiar yet obscure, the shipping forecast is broadcast four times daily on BBC Radio 4. For those at, or about to put to sea, the forecast may mean the difference between life and death.

But for millions of landlubbing radio listeners it is more than this; the enigmatic language of the forecast has entered the public conciousness, creating a landscape of the imagination and confirming romantic notions of Britain's island status.

Captioned by the 0600hrs forecast on the day they were taken, these photographs attempt to challenge our assumptions of these far-flung places.