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Before coming to live in the North West Highlands I escaped north as often as I could to restore my sanity and soothe my soul. This image was taken on one such break, in October, the last break of that year. We had been enjoying several consecutive days of blue sky weather when on this day the weather started to change in the late afternoon.
A bank of ominous looking clouds slowly drifted in from the west, and I was disappointed at what this was going to mean for our holiday, but excited at the photographic delights it was presenting. At the time of taking this image the drifting cloud bank had not completely blotted out the sun's attempts to throw light on the scene, and it was this mixture of diminishing lightness and increasing gloom that I found so compelling. A remnant left from our former blue sky day was one thin straggling cloud, still picking up light from the sun, giving the image a strong point of interest.
We were in the part of Sutherland called Assynt, on the coast at Stoer looking over the Bay of Stoer, looking due west to the Outer Hebrides, the islands themselves invisible on the dark horizon. Later that day and for the next couple of days we were in the grip of a fierce storm of gale force winds and driving rain.
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