Lagangarbh Cottage, Glencoe, Scotland
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As the title suggests this really was the depths of Winter... and a few days that were the coldest I can remember in this area.
I've posted one different image from this morning before but had totally forgotten about this one, as you do.. I was getting together some images for the club I'm in to put forward for a forthcoming CPAGB qualification, and I found this one lurking about, the guy doing the talk on it said I should definitely enter this as one of my 10 images, again another case of forgetting about images in a set with intentions of posting them up later on, then simply and moving onto the next and forgetting all about them, I'm murder for it..
So seeing as he liked it and I've discovered it again I thought I'd remedy matters and post it up as once again we are entering into the depths of Winter, thankfully not quite at this stage yet though, makes your bones freeze just looking at it!
The balancing of the exposure wasn't the easiest here to get that mist right against the backdrop but being one of those unusual occasions where the land is actually brighter than the dull snow laden sky helped with that.
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Almost a white out and very little to create a composition until a little break in the cloud allowed a few rays of light which makes the image worth...
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The famous Lagangarbh Cottage in Glencoe at the base of Buachaille Etive Mòr mountain. With this shot I tried to go with something a bit different to...
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A solitary cottage on the edge of the Rannoch Moor wilderness in Scotland braves a passing winter storm.
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It's amazing how the weather can totally transform a scene, this is one of my favourite locations in the UK for shooting and walking, I like to get up here in different weather to show how the scene just takes on a whole new feel, the weather this trip was extremely harsh and was snowing for the most part this day, it was pretty hard to get anything without having the element covered in snow and having to start again, just a case of keeping trying until you got blob free images, not the easiest when your trying to shoot a pano sequence...
Luckily the odd break / reduction in snowfall allowed some shots to be bagged with the tops of the mountains still visible against the darker areas of the snow filled sky.
The day after this was taken the land was far more visible and a lot of the snow had gone until it started again later i the day, this was pretty much what I wanted with the little cottage almost disappearing in the the mass of white beneath the now scary looking mountain, looking back to the shots I took here in August it is almost unrecognisable as the same place, but still the thoughts of lighting a fire in there with a decent bottle of single malt remain the same! even more so at this time of year.....
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An iconic cottage with the backdrop of this very photogenic mountain in the heart of Glencoe. I know it's been done a million times before but I've...
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Buachaille Etive Mor, Scottish highlands
