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This is my favourite kind of weather, a cold, crisp and bright mid winter day. Daylight hours are short but more than make up for that in the quality of the light, the low winter sun revealing the contours and textures of the landscape. There are two other advantages to mid winter days, the landscape photographer doesn't need to get up at 4am, and there are no damned midgies!
This scene presented itself as I travelled south along the west shore of Loch Ewe, and just before reaching a small place known as Boor this dramatic view is before you. Looking over Loch Ewe, Poolewe village appears as a scattering of homes, apparently tumbled around the base of the dramatic Beinn Airigh Charr.
This view is deceiving however, in reality the walk from Poolewe to the lower slopes of Beinn Airigh Charr is about 4 kilometres, and to the peak of the mountain is about 9 kilometres, both as the crow flies, but rather longer by the meandering tracks that lead to the summit.
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