Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

On the Tuesday we drive up past Uig to Duntulm castle to check out the views. Unfortunately the weather was, again, pretty dire and although there were one or two blasts of light through the clouds, there wasn’t enough to warm things up and there was very little wave action. The ground around the rocks was fairly barren (no thrift out) and the Castle itself had that typical worn look that most popular attractions acquire at the hands (and feet) of many travellers. We should have walked over to the far side but by this time a bitter wind had arisen and we retreated back to ‘Fawlty Towers’ (The Duntulm Hotel) for a quick dinner. We drove back down past Uig to the Fairy glen where we were hounded by outrageously intelligent guard sheep. Despite being followed by our ovine friend, I did manage to find an interesting location but the weather kept causing problems (wind, rain, blanket grey clouds). We should have walked around a little more but it’s pyscologically difficult to shake off the disspointment of being in a great location with dreary light. I took a couple of large format shots to see how much Velvia could rescue the situation but I have a feeling even this fabulous film can’t recover this much.