Pastel Tranquillity

Loch Ba, Glencoe, Scotland

 

Taking a pause from my Cornwall pics to go back up north to my March trip to Scotland. After a week on Skye I had a few nights in a camping pod near Glencoe which again I had not shot before. The forecast the night before and even that morning led me to believe I might be able to get a good shot of Black Rock Cottage near the Glencoe Mountain resort. I got there before sunrise and parked in the Resort car park and walked back to the cottage but it soon became clear that a band of cloud on the horizon would block out any sunrise sunlight on the cottage. I hung around in case something changed and then in the distance saw mist forming on Rannoch Moor. A couple of minutes of dithering later I decided I'd head back to the car and see if I could grab some mist shots in the Loch Ba/Lochan na-h-Achlaise area. In the end I decided to go for Loch Ba as I thought it might be easier to shoot without having scouted it. Having driven through some sections of pea soup fog I parked up and took the short walk to an area below the normal 'viewpoint' and started about 30mins of frantic snapping as the mist came and went and I tried to look for other compositions.

 

The above shot was one of those and think it gives a feeling of the peace and quiet I had that morning.....(well apart from the occasional lorry going by). Always pays to keep your eyes on the swivel...perhaps Togs should evolve to copy the necks Owls have!😆

 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

 

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