Ahh!! Back in Glencoe and the Weather Changes
Although I love Elgol and Skye, even despite the weather, I was really happy to return to Glencoe. The place we stay (The Clachaig Inn’s chalets) is beautiul, comfortable and so handy it’s untrue.. The first morning we went out to the ‘usual’ spot to try to get a dawn photo (trying to avoid the cliche tree – now you know which spot). There was a very pleasant photographer from Edinburgh there before me and we had a good chat. I took a large format shot of my composition which has come out (The first version is the LF shot and the second is my Digital of the same place.. Incredible differences in colour, probably because of the way I have converted it (I took a photograph of it with a macro lens on the light table).
Composing this shot was a pleasure because it’s my first real photo where I haven’t been completely stressed by the process (well, it was still interesting trying to sort out the exposure – in this case taken of a mid gray on the rocks and a high mark on the light in the hills.
Then we took a drive up to Glen Orchy but my wife was a little tired and wanted to go on a walk rather than hang around in the same place (which was a shame as the location looked like it could be fantastic fun to spend the day photographing at).
However we decided to go for a drive down Glen Etive with the aim of walking down the right hand side of the glen. Unfortunately we were harrased by ticks, bogged down beyond beleif and swarmed by midges.. I could have coped with any of these on their own but with progress of about half a mile in 40 minutes we turned back, just as this view lit up.
I did try to get a large format shot but the foreground was very soon lit up with direct sunlight which ruined the effect.
Finally, we walked up robbers falls where the ticks came out in force to the point where we had to wear snoods and hats to stop them sneaking into our hair and down our fronts. Despite this, on the way down I saw this gorgeous tree and the light breaking through it. Again no LF shot as, although my gut said it was beautiful, I couldn’t work out why and hence didn’t take one. Trust my gut more…
