Road to "Skyfall." Actually, Glen Etive, that turns south-west from Glencoe. Immortalised in recent years, when Daniel Craig and Dame Judy Dench, playing James Bond and "M," stopped a mile or two from here to take in the view, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary.
Heather moorland,
the line of trees follows the banks of a gushing burn.
Steep, rocky Munros rise imperiously above this famous glen.
At the south-eastern end lies the long, thin, “dog-legged” waters of
Loch Etive surging over the Falls of Lorna near Connell Bridge and Oban.
Looking back, north-east, from Dalness is another famous view.
A high col forms a downward, symmetrical, hyperbolic curve
between two peaks of similar height, Stob Dubh, 958 metres
and Stob na Broige, 956 metres.
I aimed to replicate the “Skyfall” view.
However, so many visitors had the same ambition that
every “Passing Place” on the single-track road had its own traffic jam.
I turned back towards Glencoe and took this shot instead.
There’s always another day for the “film” view!
Road to "Skyfall." Actually, Glen Etive, that turns south-west from Glencoe. Immortalised in recent years, when Daniel Craig and Dame Judy Dench, playing James Bond and "M," stopped a mile or two from here to take in the view, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary.
Heather moorland,
the line of trees follows the banks of a gushing burn.
Steep, rocky Munros rise imperiously above this famous glen.
At the south-eastern end lies the long, thin, “dog-legged” waters of
Loch Etive surging over the Falls of Lorna near Connell Bridge and Oban.
Looking back, north-east, from Dalness is another famous view.
A high col forms a downward, symmetrical, hyperbolic curve
between two peaks of similar height, Stob Dubh, 958 metres
and Stob na Broige, 956 metres.
I aimed to replicate the “Skyfall” view.
However, so many visitors had the same ambition that
every “Passing Place” on the single-track road had its own traffic jam.
I turned back towards Glencoe and took this shot instead.
There’s always another day for the “film” view!