West Highland Winter Sunlight
11th March 2009
There's a light in the afternoons, which can last much longer than the "golden hour" photographers elsewhere revel in, which makes photography such a compulsion in the west highlands of Scotland.
Passing along the shores of Loch Creagan yesterday afternoon just before 6pm, the impulse was irresistible. And it's the light in the trees, especially on the fine branches of the birches and the bark of the Scots pines, that demands the camera's attention, and yields shots like this one:
Passing along the shores of Loch Creagan yesterday afternoon just before 6pm, the impulse was irresistible. And it's the light in the trees, especially on the fine branches of the birches and the bark of the Scots pines, that demands the camera's attention, and yields shots like this one:
