The Isle of Skye; there and back again.

[Erik Lund]

I love the happy mountain saddle!

[stenrasmussen]

I like 'em all but the lone tree against the water is my fav.

[rosko]

 

A pure pleasure for the eyes !

Really beautiful series, Dave.

Thanks for sharing.

Francis.

[David H. Hartman]

David,

This is a wonderful set of photographs. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Best,

Dave Hartman

[David Paterson]

Thanks again to all who are looking in on this  thread - I hope you will still be pleased with this final selection - "the way home".

Day 3.
1. The chocolate-box-top, aka Eilan Donan Castle
2. The River Shiel at Shielfoot
3. and 4. Glen Shiel
5. Looking back west to the Glen Shiel peaks
6. Scrub-birch in Glen Coe
7, 8, and 9. Three sunset views of Buachaille Etive Mor

[Bjørn Rørslett]

You never cease to impress with such pictures and and beauty of Scotland in combination.

#1 and #7 are on top of my list.

[David Paterson]

You never cease to impress with such pictures and and beauty of Scotland in combination.

Coming from the Master, I am very pleased and grateful for such a statement.

I do try to remind people, especially the Scots themselves, just how beautiful and worth preserving Scotland (and by extension the planet) is. I hope this doesn't sound pompous - I am quite serious about this, even if I can only make a very small difference.

[Mikes]

Wonderful images, Dave. It's been a rewarding trip for you from a photography perspective. Of these, I especially like #4 (beautiful colours), #7 and #8 (quite dramatic). You and Mother Nature have a great affinity!

[Akira]

#3 of Day 3 looks so beautiful.  Its lighting and atmosphere are awesome!  I also love the mountain Buachaille Etive Mor that looks so divinely.

By the way, I'm really interested in the Scottish names of the places, mountains or lakes that look and sound different from the English ones.

[David Paterson]

Mike and Akira - thanks for following this thread, and for your comments.  I really do like hearing from you both, and I apologise for not seeking out your threads as often as I should.

Mike - this was a very productive trip;  Mayumi had a lot to put up with.

Akira - Scottish place-names and their derivation is one of my abiding interests. Old Norse (from the Vikings), Gaelic and English blend in many names of the north and west, and Old German, Dutch, English and Old Scots ("Lallans") in the east and south. I gave the example of Broadford which comes directly from Old Norse; the mountain name Buachaille Etive Mor is pure Gaelic and means The Great Shepherd of Etive; it can get much more complicated than that, for example when you have names which are English versions of Gaelic versions of the original Old Norse names; and so on.

[Bent Hjarbo]

Impressive pictures, nice colours and compositions.
Makes me want to go to Skye 

[Akira]

Dave, thanks for the introduction to the Scottish language.  I never knew the word "Lallans".  It is always fascinating to see how a language has been formed throughout its history!  The same goes with Japanese or many different languages.

[David Paterson]

Thanks, Bent, I'm very glad you like them.

Akira - "Lallans" = Lowlands (of Scotland), and the language spoken there. It was a dialect of English, but with many, many differences of vocabulary.

[Danulon]

Thank you for both the pictures and the information on the origin of the names of the places depicted.

Some things look familiar after our stay in your wonderful country, but there is obviously so much more to discover!

I especially liked:

Day 1:
- Loch Linnhe near Camus na Croise (the light)
- Rois-Bheinn from Lochailort (the framing of the clouds and the mountain, I'd never come up with this framing)

Day 2:
- Stricken tree below Beinn na Caillich (matching colours of both the mountain and the tree - question: was the light really that harsh or due to post production?)
- The Coulin Ridge, from Trotternish (the framing and the reduction of colours)

Day 3:
- The River Shiel at Shielfoot and
- Glen Shiel #1 (the colours, the greenery)

The scrub birches made me smile - they reminded me of our hike to Ben Lawers.

[Jakov Minić]

Dave, stop it!