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This view was taken on a very hot and sultry summer's evening at Scotland's Loch Ewe. I was driving through Aultbea, near Drumchork, when this scene came into view through my right window. I pulled up next to a gate leading into a field in order to take landscape photographs of this amazing scene.
The view is of Loch Ewe, and the peninsula with the houses on it is Aird Point, Aultbea. At the left is the northern tip of the Isle of Ewe, and beyond, on the horizon is the tip of the Inversasdale peninsula on which the village of Cove is situated.
As soon as I stepped out of the car I was beset by midgies. There was not a breath of wind and conditions were quite horrible. At the time this photograph was taken I had not yet acquired the excellent anti-midge gear I have now, so it was just a case of suffering it.
There was a very thin misty haze everywhere, not enough to obscure to any great degree vision of the nearby land, but sufficient to filter the distant sun and make it bearable to look at. I assume this haze was the primary cause of the all-enveloping red glow.
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