glencoe

_DSC1476 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr _DSC1485 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Two from Friday morning when I took someone for a workshop up there. We got lucky that morning for sure.

Loch Ba _DSC1352 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Torren Lochan _DSC0823 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr The Buachaille _DSC0760 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Loch Tulla _DSC1428 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

Couple from Wednesday last week. Not my best but still good fun to be out and about in the sun with a camera during my favourite time of the year. The first is from the Torren Lochan and a different angle to the normal one I do. It's good to mix it up a bit and this is really a trial run for...

_DSC0430 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr _DSC0441 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

I found myself back in Glencoe Wednesday evening. I took a few pictures but they are all inferior versions of what I already have taken before bar these. I initially was aiming to take a lovely reflection of Bidean Nam Ban in the still waters of Loch Achtriochtan with the 16-35 but as I got to...

Last Friday night was immense with azure blue skies and lovely hot weather meaning it was just a joy to be out and about taking pictures. I make no apologies for being drawn to clear cloudless warm scenes. I just like them and love pictures of them and taking pictures of them. It's now lovely...

I've been spending a lot of evenings down at the Torren Lochan and up here at Lagangarbh. Normally I shoot the cottage and the reflection of the Buachaille in a still water pool. Indeed I did this as I have done many times before a couple of weeks back. _DSC0314 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr...

First Light from the River Etive _DSC0287 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Later on from a small water pool _DSC0302 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr It's a lovely time of year with the moorland finally turning green after months of being that brown depressing dead colour. Also with early sunrises...

Been a fun 24hours. Yesterday I decided to hit Glencoe, this is my favourite time of year and whilst the forecast wasn't hopeful it was still. Just after the rain cleared I decided to go back to the Buachaille. This angle works really well in the summer as the sunset is so far to the north you...

The last weeks weather has been amazing. Lovely clear azure blue skies. I know the established norm in landscape photography is clear blue skies are bad for taking photographs but I disagree. In this part of the world they are almost certainly a rarer event than stormy skies, or the dark "moody"...

As you all know I live near here and am up here shooting a lot. This Saturday I decided to go and visit. I rarely head out over the weekends as I prefer to shoot alone and not encounter large groups of people, something, despite the popularity of the area is quite easy to achieve. It wasn't...

This morning I went in search of reflections. Sadly it wasn't quite mill pond still but it wasn't bad. To make it better the snow is back. Dawn was lovely and vibrant but unfortunately misty. I much prefer cleared conditions. _DSC0315 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr _DSC0325 by Stephen Taylor...

Last Mondays effort. _DSC0099 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

I posted some very similar shots back in november but these are subtly different in tones and light as they were taken a few minutes apart. I am in Glencoe later today and tomorrow. The Buachaille _DSC4018 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Loch Ba _DSC4147 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr

Not been out with the camera much over the last few weeks but had a great chance to process some old ones from the library. This image won a highly commended in the British Life Photography Competition 2015 and was on display in the Pall Mall Gallery in London with all the commended images and...

After the disaster which was Sunday/Monday with the failed memory card I decided to get back out there with a fresh memory card on Wednesday/Thursday to see what I could come up with. Dawn at the Buachaille: _DSC4013 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr First light was not disappointing but snow all...

I had someone in last Monday for a half day workshop in the morning. I didn't manage to get many images of my own taken for the obvious reason was I was teaching someone and showing them the sites. They wanted to go the "spot" where the silver birch sits by the falls with the view to the...

Just got round to working this and some other stuff I need to do. Went with an unsual aspect ratio for this 16x10. 16x9 just made it too cramped. I was happy with it in the view finder but on the big screen I felt I had too much sky above the mountains. _DSC3727 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr...

Autumn colours in Glencoe Lochan. This was taken on a clients workshop last week. Sadly the ducks in the Lochan meant the reflection isn't ripple free. _DSC9811 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr This is one in Glencoe Lochan I took the week before. _DSC9499 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr This was...

Time for some nice bright reflections. I always like taking a walk round Lochan na h-Ahclaise and seeing what I can come up with. I had been here since dawn but the sun didn't break through until a good 2hrs after "sunrise" so none of these have the subtle golden rich lighting I crave but the...

Took a quick stop here on the way back from Torridon on Sunday. It is a wonderful place just to sit and gather your thoughts. To be honest I spent probably about 2hours here just thinking about life, people gone by and just taking in that massive big view. There was some nice clouds about so...

As per the last thread I've been spending some time reprocessing old images. Its brought about some minor improvements and rectified a few technical flaws I found. Recropped a few as time moved on the composition jarred me a little. I hope you enjoy the series as much as I enjoyed reliving the...

One from the bin as I was going through old images. I never really worked on it at the time but never deleted it. _DSC6185 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr I used a CPL and I didn't really like the way when I got home it rendered the colours in the sky. However it seemed a bit nice just to delete...

I've been distracted from my business as usual photography over the last couple of weeks. Good to get back to some of my (and others) well known tripod holes. First stop last week, and probably for the last time this year was the Torren Lochan in Glencoe. I spoke to the owner of the Lochan and...

Following on from this thread I thought I would post my panel of rejected images here. There has been some interesting dialogue on the thread below. https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/take-a-view-landscape-photographer-of-the-year.626257/ Reject one Stobb Dearg by Stephen Taylor, on...

A few from last week as I was up in the area leading a 121 workshop. Loch Tulla _DSC8746 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Rannoch Moor _DSC8755 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Rannoch Moor B&W _DSC8755 (1) by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr Loch Urr, Glen Etive _DSC8784 by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr...