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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...

We had a tour round of a number of places on the second day of the workshop, starting at Loch an Eilein where for an instant there was a most dramatic sky. We spent a couple of hours here as it was so interesting, but the sky reverted to plain blue. This was to be the finest day of the three. The next port of call was a gorge which you can view from a road bridge passing over the River Tromie. Walking up the path next to the river I was lucky enough to spot two people walking ahead of me who I could frame in the trees. Finally we went back to the local lochans near Balachroick House to catch the dying rays