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This beautiful scene appeared a few years ago in the month of August, and I didn't have to travel far to photograph it, only as far as my front garden. Each year, around August and September, sea mists roll in from The Minch, creeping into the many sea lochs with which Scotland's West Highlands are riven.
For those enveloped in the mist this will be a very cold and dull day. In this case the mist was travelling down into Loch Broom, and Ullapool became enveloped in the mist. Viewed from Laide however, the scene was extraordinarily beautiful. In this photograph the mist's movement is frozen at a moment in time, but watching it was quite different as the mist could be seen to be constantly moving along and changing shape.
In this scene, viewed from my home in Laide, you are looking over Gruinard Bay to Gruinard Island, Cailleach Head, Suilven (leftmost mountain) and the peaks of Coigach (L to R), Cairn Conmheall, Beinn nan Caorach, Sgurr an Fhidhleir and Ben More Coigach. Suilven is in Sutherland and is just over 37 kilometres away from my viewpoint.
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