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Cold start

Explore #2 14/02/17

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Second day of my recent visit to the West Highlands and a clear morning compared to the previous days full on white out blizzard....I was the first one here this morning when I arrived pre dawn.

A different take on a classic location, I was hoping for something along these lines but I didn't know quite what, the minus temperatures at dawn although not much fun to be lying on the floor in, produced some amazing ice patterns in the river around the rocks, I got absolutely soaked taking this but I had my breakfast to look forward to and a warm hotel room so I just cracked on, managed quite a few from this beautiful morning, this one being the first.

As I left here I stopped with 2 other photographers who were just shooting the classic scene of the waterfall and the Boochle (grabbed one myself) completely oblivious to what was a little further up the river, I'm all for the classic shots but often it pays to look a bit further afield but neither seemed interested when I mentioned it, each to their own I guess.

Depth of field was a challenge here to say the least! also I was that low I could'nt use the tripod as I'd forgotten my short column, so I resorted to building a platform of rocks to keep the camera stable through the exposure.

A personal favourite, really hard work getting it, and even more difficult to be recreated.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / Scotland / Highland (show map)

Taken on: February 8, 2017

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