As part of an ethnographic fieldwork element of an arts-practice based PhD that investigates becoming familiar in some of the forest landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. I have spent time volunteering on a nature reserve, and shadowing ecologists, foresters and others as they have gone about their work. By having an active engagement in tasks, I've learnt more about the ecology and management of these places, and how the specificity of tasks dictate movement and interaction. Using this way of working, the people, land, its flora, the weather become active participants in our dialogues and my learning about these places, and this knowledge informs my work. At the same time, my making informs my knowledge and the familiarity I have or seek. Influenced by writings about landscape, mobility, multi-sensoriality and affect, and by, amongst others, John Wylie's notion of narrating self and landscape, I'm interested in the more-than-written in the articulation of place, and will present a multi-media paper which will include images of etchings, drawings, bookworks, soundscapes and video.