Well I am just back from my annual trip to Skye  where I get a few days of doing nothing but taking and thinking about taking pictures. Although I take tens of thousands of pictures a year very little of them are actually for myself so to get a weekend to indulge in my passion is always great. Although I was away for a total of 48 hours in true there are only about 6-8 hours where the light will be suitable for landscape photography. These hours of photography are called the ‘Golden’ hours and are the hours before and after both sunset and sunrise, during these hours assuming the weather conditions are suitable the light quality is at its best. One of the down side to landscape photography at this time of the year is the early sunrises (5:30am), which means ideally you want to be up and on location for about 45 minutes before the sun peeks over the horizon. My next couple of blog posts are going to detail the locations, condition and a few of the images captured at either the sunset or sunrise.

Sunset 1

Location Elgol, Isle of Skye

Elgol is a stunning location and frequently visited by landscape photographers. The Dramatic boulders and rock formations are all overlooked by the stunning Cuillin mountain range and is the perfect location to watch the sunset from. The following pictures are a few examples of the images I managed to capture on the first evening of my visit to Elgol.

All of these pictures were taken between 8:30 and 9:30 ‘The Golden Hour’. Once the sun had set and there was no longer and colour in the sky I decided to relocate to the other side of the island so I would be in a good position to capture the sunrise the following morning. By the time I got to the Quiraing and pitched my tent it was 12:30, so with the  quickly approaching dawn I got my head down for a few hours of sleep. My next post will contain some of the pictures from my first sunrise over Skye.