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The Eye of Rory

Welcome to Rory MacNish Photography and Videography. This is the place to see my work and buy my photos. This is a showcase of 40 years of shooting. I started shooting on film and it gave me the ability to really know my craft, learn all there is to know about how to expose it, compose and develop it. I owned my own photo processing lab and developed all my pictures during that time. With the progression of digital photography and video I embraced it. I took what I learned from film and the darkroom into the light. Learning Photoshop was so much fun for me, it's an endless process with all it can do.

Shop prints

All photographs are digital c prints known as a Giclée. I use archival inks and paper

North Fork Barn photo in the fog is an iconic scene you will see on the North Fork of Long Island.
The Long Island Sound on the North Fork of Long Island is a beautiful place to visit. The sunsets are spectacular.

Knowing the

North Fork

nature, texture, iceland, moody, photography, otherworldly iceland, underground, underworld, otherwordly, woodland,

Growing up on the East End of Long Island, Rory has a sense of the landscape and natural world. He is in tune with the water, land, sky and light. To see his work is to visit the North and South forks of the east end of Long Island. Winemakers call it Terroir! Photographers call it an understanding or intuition.

The Natural North Fork and East End

sand texture

My love for the east end started when I was a child. My first job was on a farm picking vegetables and working on a combine sorting potatoes. I was very happy to see the vineyards grow and basically save the east ends farming.

Farming and Fishing, a Way of Life

Natural Beauty in its Rawest Form

“I learned to photograph what I know, so I photograph the East End. I also shoot video and fly my drone to capture what this beautiful place has to offer.”

When you visit the Parish Art Museum in Watermill, you learn that most of the greats like William Merritt Chase just loved what the sun’s angle at this latitude does to the light and they took advantage of it and used it to create wonderful pieces of art.