Landscape photography tip: Carry on in bad weather

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 16:04 by Rob IJsselstein | 2,950 views | 2 comments

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Many well-known photographers say it: in bad weather, you have the best chance of taking spectacular photos. The photo was taken near Glen Coe. Along with Skye and Edinburgh, Glen Coe is one of the most magical places in Scotland.

For Glen Coe, that is because of a massacre carried out by English soldiers in the village, but certainly also because of the natural surroundings.

It lies on a sea inlet on the west coast, and you pass it when driving from the south towards Fort William and Loch Ness. You drive over a pass surrounded by several mountains, a turbulent river runs through the pass, and the valley is beautiful.

The photo above was taken about 25 kilometres south-east of Glencoe. An old castle, Kilchurn Castle, stands on a peninsula in Loch Awe. It is lovely to photograph from the south side, with the mountains in the background.

To reach that beautiful spot, you have to walk about five hundred metres through a field of tall grass. The weather was rough: heavy, driving rain and a strong wind made it unpleasant to walk that stretch.

But my photography friend Sten and I were dressed for it, and once you are there, you carry on anyway. When we reached the edge of the lake, it was still raining really hard. There was little light, so we photographed from a tripod.

Struggling to get a cover over the camera. And then to choose an attractive composition as well. I held an umbrella horizontally to keep the rain off the camera and lens, and took my first photos.

After ten minutes of taking our shots, we packed up to take some other photos. Then it suddenly cleared up, and we got to see a beautiful rainbow.

We quickly got everything out again to shoot a few more photos. It had been worth braving the weather.

You can count on beautiful light after heavy showers not just in Scotland. It is like that all over the world.

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