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Buachaille Etive Mòr and River Coupall
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Explore #1 16/10/18
I know some of you already know the reason I'm reposting it as you saw it in the Sunday Times yesterday and you have emailed me with some really nice words and congrats, thanks it really is appreciated! A lot of you I guess won't know why I'm posting it again yet...
I found out a few months out that this image had gone through to the finals of this years Landscape Photographer of the Year compettion (LPOTY 2018)
I got a very surreal phone call from Charlie Waite last Monday to tell me that the image had gone further still, it's been an ambition of mine to get an image into the LPOTY yearbook for a long time... as I was chatting to Charlie I kind of got the feeling that I might make the book here, he said "you'd better sit down"... at which point he told me that the image had been chosen as the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018 overall winner.
I'm completely blown away by this, and it's still very much sinking in.
I've had to keep it secret for almost a week which has been pretty hard work to be honest but now I can post the image. Thanks to my FlickR friends who have mailed me with your support, here's a link to the 2018 LPOTY page:
www.take-a-view.co.uk/2018-award-winners/
The original FlickR post:
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I've not posted anything from here in absolutely ages so here we go, we stopped off here on the way to Skye in February, which really does seem like an eternity ago now!
As always with this location I always look for something different than the 'regular' shot, (then always end up taking one of that anyway..) I do like a low perspective, and this was about as low as I could get in the River, even with wellies on it was a bit of a contortionist job getting wedged in....
The sunrise came and went and only had very brief colour, but what it lacked in colour it certainly didn't in drama with some great storm clouds either side of the Buachaille and with the top perfectly visible in full snow I was happy enough... well until my backside got soaking wet .... not a lot wellies can help with there!
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Have been keen to try more night sky/night photography lately and when I noticed the conditions were favourable in Glencoe on Friday night, my mind was made up to make the journey and give it a go!
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Another from earlier in the year in the bitterly cold West Highlands of Scotland.
Out for sunrise in Glen Etive and on the hunt for iced up pools of water, whilst the first didn't really happen to any effect, the second one certainly did and it was a case of just trying to get a decent one into a composition with the great snow capped mountain in the rear in the shot also.
A little splash of colour in the sky at dawn was about as much as the sky played ball this morning but the icy pool really sets off the mountain to the rear and the cloudy sky blocking the light I also feel adds quite a bit to the moody / coldness of the scene, the pool has already started to melt with the sun coming up and ten minutes later it would be gone almost completely.
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The mighty 'Boochle' bathed in early morning sunshine. The Coupall river in the foreground has some interesting colours in the crystal clear (but...
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This has to be one of the most awkward images to capture along the river Etive as this lovely little waterfall has a huge boulder to the right of it...
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River Coupall, Buachaille Etive Mòr
Glen Coe, Scotland
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Another image from the bitterly cold morning in Glencoe, the sunrise hadn't really produced anything magical but the previous nights freeze certainly had in the form of some amazing Ice patterns that had only just started to begin melting, to get this shot I had to use one of my most specialist pieces of photography equipment....., my pair of big lined wading wellingtons :-) by far one of the best purchases ever! with those on I could wade through the river to the central rocky area looking for frozen pools of water.
This one seemed perfect for what I wanted, looking towards the Boochle ahead, a really low perspective allowing for the normally prominent River Coupall to be removed from the scene for something I feel is pretty different to the norm from this location, the hardest bit was getting low enough to compose the image as I wanted it, you have to be a bit of a contortionist sometimes, and enjoy getting covered in mud. All part of the fun.
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Long Exposure from the River Coupall towards BEM.
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Glen Etive, Buachaille Etive Mor & Glen Coe from River Coupall
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First of all, thank you all for the views, favourites and comments on my previous upload. Very humbling and appreciated.
This is a picture I took...