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The last day of our trip dawned well but turned very cold and windy. We started in a birch wood on the side of Loch Insh and then, after some well deserved coffee, moved to Loch Pityoulish where the wind was blowing a gale, sending the clouds scudding. This is a more remote loch which had some dead trees fringing it. The two ICM shots are from around Loch Insh. The dead tree picture was taken with the 24mm tilt shift lens and I found that I had to tilt up slightly to maintain focus on the top of the tree. We had lunch and then ended up at Loch Morlich, which I have to admit was not my favourite of the ones we visited. Here I managed to take pictures of the hills on the far side of the Loch using the 70-200mm, and then latterly to use my Holga pinhole to get something a little different. Finally we were staying at The Steadings, which belongs to Peter Cairns who runs wildlife workshops from here. Doug had rented it for the time we were there and it was an id...

Around lunchtime we headed to Loch Morlich which sits surrounded by trees (and a caravan site) with views towards Cairngorm. The trees were mainly pine and were picturesquely draped with green lichen. It was very misty at the end of the loch and not really terribly scenic. It's shore comprised of a gritty sand which exposed the roots of the trees. We moved from here to Loch Garten where we parked and walked though pine forest to a wonderful little loch called Loch Malachie which contained a number of dead trees. As the sky darkened this was a photographers paradise