Author and photographer Vivian Russell follows in Claude Monet's footsteps to photograph his favourite haunts, and describes a personal and artistic journey that led him to create some of his most famous images of landscape. Presented alongside Monet's paintings, the photographs seek to capture the spirit and enchantment of the locations: on the River Creuse, around the coasts of France, near his home at Giverny, and on his travels to Holland, Norway, Venice and London. Taken during the appropriate seasons, they convey the visual drama of Monet's motifs and the quality of the light that inspired him to take them. Vivian Russell quotes extensively from letters written to his wife, Alice, and his friends.