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Scotland
Last month I went to Scotland again. This time I visited the area around Torridon, part of the Western Highlands, which offers some of Scotland’s finest and most dense mountain sceneries. I had the intention of doing some of the summits there, but unfortunately the weather didn’t play along and I was only able to do one climb to the summit of Tom na Gruagaich, overlooking Beinn Alligin. This was my first Scottish munro, but it will definitely not be my last. The view from above was just breathtaking. Although the light could have co-operated a bit more, I think I managed to get a few good shots there. For the rest of the week the higher mountains were mostly covered in clouds and because the wider landscapes didn’t always work, I was forced to focus on other things.
For the second part of the trip I stayed at Ullapool, near the Inverpolly Nature reserve. There, the weather suddenly turned too good: giving high temperatures, hard light, vast blue skies and a lot of haze. The perfect weather for a tourist, but not for a photographer who wants to capture the dramatic light and skies that Scotland normally has to offer. I did, however, manage to do two other summits; among which the summit of An Teallach, which I really wanted to do. The conditions looked quite good climbing up the 3484 ft high summit and after 4 hours of climbing I arrived at the summit of Bidean a' Ghlas Thuill, set up the tent, started looking for good compositions and waited for the sun to set. However, the wind started to gain in strength pretty fast, haze and low clouds started to come in and the mountains disappeared in the fog. There was not enough time for me to get down again before dark, so the only thing I could do was to sit it through and hope that the tent would hold. It was quite a turbulent night, to say the least, and I didn’t get any sleep as the tent was constantly battered by the strong winds. Around 5 am the wind dropped a bit and although it was still quite hazy, all peaks were clear, allowing me to get a few sunrise shots of one of Scotland’s most dramatic peaks.
If you would like to see the Scotland shots, please visit the Scotland gallery.
World War I
I am happy to announce that I was assigned quite a big photography project. For the next year and a half I will be photographing the sites, landscapes, monuments and remains of World War I in Flanders Fields for Westtoer APB. I am really thrilled to get started with this project and hope to show you a few of the shots I made when preparing myself for this project quite soon.