Buachaille Etive Mor

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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Lagangarbh Cottage is a base used by the Glen Coe Mountain Rescue Team. It makes for a striking contrast between its size and that of Stob Dearg...

Explore #6 15/10/16 Glencoe is one of the most attractive places in mainland Scotland for me, very remote surroundings with something different around every corner, this cottage is a great feature than can be seen from a good way with it's fantastic mountainous backdrop and the colourful river sitting ahead of it it is in an amazing location, you can't help but wonder why it was actually built here if it wasn't purely for the views as there is literally nothing else here. Stob Dearg (1022ft) is directly behind the cottage.

A typically moody Glencoe sky here today but not too dark, a bit of a wait in the river and the tops of the mountains cleared off nicely, every time I've shot this Cottage before it has been in the rain so this made a nice change to be able to get into the river and take my time a bit more, I could happily live there, Smoked Salmon, glass of Malt, and a real fire, surrounded by all that what more would you need?

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Lagangarbh Hut, Glen Coe. For the princely sum of £10 you can get a bunk for the night and if your really lucky you might be able to get a bunk with a view of Buachaille Etive Mor. The River Coupall flows past fiercely in this shot.

A quiet little cottage sat back from the A82 in Glencoe. A simple composition that appealed straight away.

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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Glencoe, Buachaille Etive Mor

Looking back through my November photos, seeing if theres anything I missed first and second time through. We spent a good 30 minutes at this cottage...