That Lucky Snap - 3

This is another example of a picture taken without realising how please I would be with it. I'm no expert with a camera so the techniques of altering exposure to increase depth in a picture are beyond me. That the cliff in the foreground and the distant view are both in reasonable focus is sheer chance.

The picture was taken from the eastern slopes of Ben Hiant on Ardnamurchan, looking out over an area called The Basin. I love the picture for the clarity of the cliff and the way the water of the burn dropping over it is frozen in the moment, for the loneliness and determination of the tree clinging for life to a sheer rock face, for the contrasts in human activity on the floor of The Basin - the modern road against almost invisible ancient agricultural workings - and for a symbol of our age, the distant wind turbine.

I also like it because it illustrates an aspect of Ardnamurchan that was very dear to us: across the great area in this shot there isn't a human visible.