a view from out of the cloud

Descending out of the cloud on Carn Dearg, Loch Ossian, March 2016

liath, dearg, dubh.

Pieces of grey, red and black granite found very close to each other by a stream that flows into Loch Ossian, from the slopes of Carn Dearg, whilst making an anti-clockwise walk of the loch in bad weather, March 2015

white out receeding, Carn Dearg, Loch Ossian, 2.3.05

 

This colour analogue photograph was made on the first of four winter walking trips with my students to the eco hostel on Rannoch Moor beside Loch Ossian. Only four of us climbed on this day (the whole group had had a long walk the day before), and this was a blustery, extremely cold one I seem to remember. The cloud came in and the light became so flat that we couldn't differentiate ground from air, but as it was so windy, we just decided to sit it out and wait for it to clear (which it did ten minutes later). This image was made just as we began to discern the ground again.