Buachaille Etive Mor autumn sunrise in Glencoe Scotland
Buachaille Etive Mor autumn sunrise in Glencoe
My first morning in Glencoe was a pretty special one. I'd decided to visit the very popular Buachaille Etive Mor photo viewpoint in Glencoe so I set the alarm nice and early as I was expecting to be battling for position with lots of landscape photographers. Arriving nice & early gave me the choice of spots to setup the tripod so I quickly checked out different potential compositions and settled on one close to the waterfall, the composition seemed nice & balanced from here, pretty much in line with the "Rule of thirds"... not something I always stick to but in this case it worked perfectly.
I'd arrived well before sunrise so took a few test shots, the sky was cloudless which initially disapponted me a little but I was to change my mind once I'd photographed Buachaille Etive Mor. The reason being that the autumn sunrise produced some stunning warm colours on the mountain side, clear skies and sunshine wasn't really what I'd expected in Glencoe but the empty sky meant all the attention was on the mountain which I rather liked! With the autumn sunrise in progress I shot several images of the Buachaille, mainly sticking to the same composition although I did switch to portrait orientation for a few photos...it didn't really work for me though although following returning home I did decide that I quite liked a square 1:1 ratio crop too. My favourite 2 Buachaille Etive Mor photos from that amazing morning in Glencoe are included below...to see bigger versions clicking the image opens them fully in my Scotland photo gallery.
All the Scotland photos from my recent photography trip to Glencoe and Assynt can be seen in my Scotland photo gallery on my website:
https://www.landscapephotographyuk.com/scotland-photos
