Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

The day after our Lochan walk was mostly pretty dreary so we had a ‘rest’ and only ventured out of the afternoon. We went back to the Glencoe valley to have a nose around the next inaccessible bit (I don’t know how else to describe it). This time the area was right next to the pass at the head of the valley and again was accessed by crossing the crash barrier. The area was amazingly lush, probably due to it being inaccessible to deer and sheep. I planned to get two types of pictures (as well as scouting out for ideas). The first was a general shot up the valley but including the lush foreground and the glacier scouring on the hill before the lost valley. I also wanted to capture some twilight shots after seeing some of the amazing quality of light that Paul Schilliger gets (although he is in the Alps – it might help). Anyway – both shots I captured were a little dreary, I think I was concentrating too much on subject and not on composition. I shall be trying to get some more twilight shots in the future as the diffuse, shadowless affect can be other worldly..