Glen Etive Road
River Coupall, Buachaille Etive Mòr
Glen Coe, Scotland
River Etive, Glencoe
Long Exposure from the River Coupall towards BEM.
River Etive, Glencoe
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust
This was taken on a recent holiday in Scotland where we spent a week in a small cottage (formerly the schoolhouse) which is situated down in the valley to the left of this shot. The view along the distant valley welcomed us each morning as we stepped out into the garden.
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A short walk from our cottage was this hut, sadly in need of repair.
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A Five Bar Gate at the start of one of the many walks around Glen Etive.
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...
River Etive waterfall in Glen Etive near Dalness
A long exposure, landscape image of the River Etive flowing rapidly through Glen Etive, in the Scottish Highlands, as a result of snow melt and heavy...
Stob na Broige, Dalness, Glen Etive, Highland, Scotland
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Glen Etive
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This is the point at which the River Etive flows into Loch Etive.
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:
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!
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.
Stob na Broige (Buachaille Etive Mor) to the right and Stob Dubh (Buachaille Etive Beag) to the left with Stob Coire Sgreamhach in the left foreground
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A hidden bend on the River Etive. This spot can't be seen from the road, but we noticed a small path through the trees that seemed to be used by local fishermen (and herds of deer). We wandered through and found ourselves in this amazing location with some of the most spectacular views of the river and the surrounding hills. Just before taking this photo, I sat on a small bench on that headland to the left in the middle distance and Liz snapped a photo which I am now using as my Flickr avatar.
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...
Glen Etive, Buachaille Etive Mor & Glen Coe from River Coupall
Loch Etive from Gualachulain
Waterfall on the River Etive near Dalness
November 9, 2018: Glen Etive, Scotland. Stefan Blomberg Photography – www.stefanblombergphotography.com
Another waterfall!
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.
SCOTLAND 2012 - Loch Etive
A shot from back in Feb and a great morning down in Glen Etive, the sunrise had been lacklustre in colour but as always here natures curious dramatics can often make up for the lack of any golden lighting.
The last time I was at this spot I got eaten alive by the dreaded Scottish Midges, anyone who has ever encountered these things will testift as to just how horrific they are, although I came away with a few images they weren't anything I've ever shared as I wasn't 100% happy with them, no doubt a consequence of rushing more than I normally would due to being bitten and pestered to death by the 'Scottish Summer Plague'.
This time of year you don't have that crap to put up with though and time can be taken to look around and enjoy the surroundings, the difference being that I came away with about 3 or 4 images I really like from around here, as opposed to zero in Summer.
This is shot looking down the River Etive towards Stob Dubh which seems to glowing within it it's own little snowy micro climate as a storm cloud passes by overhead.
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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!
Great little location in Glen Etive that yeilded a few images this freezing cold morning, if you look in the small pool of water you can see the last batch of hailstones that had fallen, big critters too!
I found this scene a bit difficult to compose as in Landscape format you are left with a huge bit of empty sky on the left unbalancing everything, switching to portrait has all but eliminated that leaving just enough around the snow capped mountains and giving more balance to the 3 sections of the image.
The rocks formations here are really curious, you can only wonder how this exact scene was created many moons ago, presumably in the Ice Age I'm guessing.
View large and have a zoom around :-)
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"Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are." — Mehmet Murat ildan
The mighty 'Boochle' bathed in early morning sunshine. The Coupall river in the foreground has some interesting colours in the crystal clear (but...
Tranquillity - A truly tranquil place, the wonderful and remote Loch Etive in autumn sunlight looking back up Glen Etive to Stob Dubh. The pyramidal...
I took a chance & booked a weekend trip up the Scottish highlands this weekend ... with snow forecast it looked an enticing photography opportunity...
River Etive cutting through rock in Glen Etive near Dalness
November 9, 2018: Glen Etive, Scotland. Stefan Blomberg Photography – www.stefanblombergphotography.com
Dru Ian & I headded up to Fort William to meet up with Anthony after his kind invitation to join him on part of his week of photography in the area....
This wonderful old dilapidated wooden shed on the seriously picturesque twelve mile road to Loch Etive stands dormant and with each passing year,...
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Glen Etive Road!
Most notably Pete Rowbottom, Alan Taylor and Jacques B. Geoffroy.