Corpach
An old decommisioned boat on the banks of Loch Linnhe, looking towards Ben Nevis in the distance.
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Ben Nevis - the highest mountain in the British Isles. This picture was taken near the Fort William in Scotland.
The MV Dayspring aground near Corpach, with the bulk of Ben Nevis lurking in a rain squal. This old fishing boat has become one of the iconic...
I recently spent some time in the Scottish Highlands which meant I had to go and see my favourite boat; the MV Dayspring. Here she is shot in sunny...
The shipwreck on the shores of Loch Linnhe at Corpach. Taken a drizzly late morning.
I had a wee wander out to the wreck of the Dayspring on the shore at Corpach hoping for some waves at the high tide. The weather was foul, so I...
Thought this kind of sums up things today... :-D The old boat at Corpach once again serves as a great subject and Ben Nevis is not a bad backdrop!
Light on the Ben - The Corpach wreck, formerly the MV Dayspring, abandoned high and dry on Loch Linnhe where she ran aground during a storm in...
Monochrome version
On the 8th December 2011 this ship, "Golden Harvest" (formerly known as "MV Dayspring") ran aground in a storm and has rested...
Ruin of the MV Dayspring in Corpach, near Fort William
Don't give up - Very high tide at Corpach during dusk with twilight picking out the Corpach wreck, with the omnipresent backdrop of Ben Nevis under a...
The classic view of Ben Nevis from Corpach. I've shot this before, and this will replace the old film pano we used to sell. Not the best light to...
Abandoned.
The beached fishing boat on the shores of Loch Linnhe, at Corpach, with the stunning backdrop of Ben Nevis.
Back to Scotland again, and the mainland this time.
We had decided to stop here on the way up to Skye to shoot the old marooned boat on the shores of Loch Linnhe as a few hadn't done it before and we weren't exactly in a rush..
The weather was grim to say the very least, dreich and generally horrible, raining non stop but hey we were passing so why not !!
As much as I enjoy shooting beautiful sunrises and sunsets that's most definitely not always the case, and if you come to Scotland with that mindset you may as well just not bother full stop ! I hadn't decided wether or not I was going to shoot the boat until we got there, thankfully there was definition in the sky and due to the non stop rain the flow of water into the Loch was enough to enable this shot to be worth it, we were never going to see the top of Ben Nevis but a large portion of the upper slopes covered in snow kept becoming visible so the stuff came out and I shot the scene.
We were all totally soaked here, and probably fairly knackered after a night in the car (although some folk will tell you I had a good sleep) I certainly didn't feel like it !
Scottish folk have a term for this weather - Dreich.
"dreich"
adjective - Scottish (especially of weather) dreary; bleak. "a cold, dreich early April day"
This is Dreich !
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Time for another shot of the MV Dayspring. You may remember I have become quite fond of this boat on my visits to the Scottish Highlands. This is a...
The Corpach trawler shipwreck ... taken a couple of weeks ago on a flying visit to Fort William ...
Here is my favourite boat the MV Dayspring shot in my kind of weather with Ben Nevis in the background. She has been in this position since she...
The 1975 built MV Dayspring which is shipwrecked on the shores of Corpach.
The Corpach Shipwreck with the town of Fort William and the snow capped peak of Ben Nevis looming large in the background. An eerie yet strikingly...
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Corpach!
Most notably Damon Finlay, Mark Sutherland and AlanHowe.