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The above photograph was taken at the end of a January in which the rain had been more or less incessant, and the lochs and rivers were running at high levels in the North-west Highlands of Scotland. The rain, having momentarily stopped, I ventured out into the world to see what I would find.
On nothing more than a spur of the moment whim, I decided to go down the narrow single track road that leads to Tollie Bay, a small bay at the north-west end of Loch Maree. It was late in the afternoon and soon the light would start to fade in our short winter's days.
On reaching the shore I was surprised by the height of Loch Maree. Trees, normally well back from the shore were being flooded by the loch, and seeing small waves running around the tree's trunk made for an unusual sight. Under the tree's spreading branches, my favourite mountain, Beinn Airigh Charr, looms.
This is just another example of the serendipity enjoyed by landscape photographers from time to time. Completely out of the blue a wonderful image presents itself, and in this instance I found no others that day. However, that mattered not, this was sufficient.
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