Todays archive post is of a shot that had lain forgotten on my hard drive until today.  This lone, dead tree has been photographed many, many times before.  If you catch it in the right light the results can be very pleasing.

After yesterdays post of the classic Buachaille shot, I thought I would post one from the other direction.  This is a panorama taken from along Buachaille Etive Mor looking back towards Stob Dearg.  From this direction you can see why it is called Stob Dearg (gaelic for ‘Red Peak’)

Todays archive post is of Buachaille Etive Mor.  The mountain is really called  Stob Dearg.  Its the whole ridge thats called Buachaille Etive Mor, but Stob Dearg (gaelic for ‘Red Peak‘) ic commonly known as ‘The Buachaille’.  Now thats sorted out, this is probably the most photographed location in Glencoe.  Theres a well worn path to this spot, and place your tripod in the holes left by countless other tripods for the shot.  It doesn’t make it a bad shot, just a overused one.  In fact it’s part of a Scottish landscape photographers right of passage to recreate all the classic shots in Glencoe.

After a week of pretty dismal wet weather the forecast looked promising, for the morning at least.  I decided last minute, that I would make the 2 hour trip to Glencoe for the sunrise.  I arrived at the Buachaille about 15 minutes before sunrise.  This gave me enough time to walk along the river and find a suitable spot  as the sun takes a short while after sunrise to hit the top of the Buachaille.

I then took a walk along the river and found another suitable spot, the line of stones leading nicely towards the Buachaille.  An ND filter was used to slow down the exposure and blur the water.

After capturing these two pictures, I decided to head back along towards Rannoch Moor.  By the time I reached here the slight wind had died down and began to show reflections of the Black Mount in Lochan Na Achlaise.  This shot turned out to be one of my favourites from the day.

My next stop after an hour or so spent here was to go and recreate a panorama which I had taken the previous year of Glencoe itself.  I tried as much as possible to get into the exact same spot.  The first one is from February 2007

I wanted to have the same panorama but with some snow on the tops.

My next stop was to go along the Glen Etive road for a look to see if there was any deer or other wildlife around.  I didn’t find any wildlife, but I did find some people white water Kayaking.  Nutters the lot of them….

By this time it was mid afternoon and after being up since 4.30am, I decided to start the 2 hour journey home.  Tired, but quite pleased with my days pictures.