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On this day I had been up well before dawn to undertake a commission at the superb Duirinish Lodge, just north of Plockton on the Scottish west coast. As the commission was to photograph the entire exterior and grounds, it meant being there all day to take advantage of the sun as it moved round the lodge.
Eventually I squeezed the last drop of possible light out of nature for this commission, then drove at a rather fast speed to Loch Torridon in the hope of photographing a superb sunset. It was touch and go as to whether I would make it and I kept looking at the clock, and pushing down the accelerator! It was my intention to get a landscape photograph of the village of Torridon which is dramatically situated as a row of houses right at the base of Liathach, and capturing that in a sunset I thought would be quite special. I have always loved this scene ever since I saw one by Colin Baxter many years ago, but that was not a sunset.
However, before reaching that viewpoint I was presented with this view of Loch Torridon. I had to stop, I thought it was wonderful. The tiny bay in the foreground is called Ob Gorm Mor, and the narrow peninsula Sron an Dubh-aird. Beyond that is Loch Torridon, Beinn Alligin to the left, and Liathach to the right. I grabbed the shot, ran back to the car and drove off at speed, would I still be in time to get the shot I had set out to get?
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