Rannoch Moor, Glencoe - Scotland

Featured at the Royal Scottish Academy

Rannoch Moor is a desolation fashioned by Nature. A thousand feet above sea level, the moor is a vast tableland.
If there was one image that so nearly didn’t happen it was this one. After a long day I was driving through Glencoe, tired and recounting the images I had taken on the trip. I turned a corner and was presented with this view. Immediately I saw the image. The image of the small cottage dominated by the ‘U’ shaped shadow following the lines of the similarly shaped valley between the two facing mountains. Racing against time I hurriedly set up the camera visualising the finished image as I scrambled away. Again the composition fell into place but this time no patience was needed as it was a race. As soon as I had captured the image the wind dispersed the clouds creating the shadow.
This image featured as an 8’ x 4’ mural print in my joint exhibition with Ansel Adams.