With an antique field camera, Boyd worked intensively for 3 months across the area, using the wet-plate collodion process to document local people and landscapes, paying special attention to sites of archaeological and historical significance.
Images from the series were exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy, and would form the basis an ongoing project to document the edges of the Irish Gaeltacht and the Scottish Gàidhealtachd.
[14] The series was released as a publication by Kozu Books in 2023, with extensive coverage in National Geographic,[15] The British Journal of Photography,[16] The Times,[17] The BBC[18] and Black and White magazine[19] among others.
[22] A commission for the 'Year of Natural Scotland' and Cape Farewell, a series of artists were asked to respond to the peatland landscape of the Isle of Lewis, celebrating the role which the blanket bog moorland plays towards global climate regulation.
[23] Boyd spent several weeks working on and in the landscape, visiting Shielings at the heart of the moorland while recording archaeological finds, and learning about life on the moor from artist and resident Anne Campbell.
In 2012 Boyd appeared in a BBC series about Victorian photographer Francis Frith alongside presenter John Sergeant, explaining and demonstrating the wet-plate collodion process at Stirling Castle.
[29] More recently Boyd appeared on the BBC series Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs talking to presenter Paul Murton about photographer George Washington Wilson.
[33] His images were included in the publication 'Inspired by Independence' with a body of work titled 'Shadow on the Landscape' examining the role of RNAD Coulport, home of the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent.
In 2014 Boyd worked with artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki on her project Away With the Birds for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as providing album artwork for BBC Folk singer of the year Bella Hardy.