Scotland is home to some of the most beautiful locations in Europe and too often goes under the radar. In this video, one photographer travels to the far north of the British Isles to see some stunning landscapes.
Though I never have much of an inclination to go out and create landscape images, I still love both looking at printed landscapes and watching behind-the-scenes footage of photographers taking them. There is something so tranquil and soothing about many of these photographers, like First Man Photography, going out into the world to quietly capture its majesty.
In this video, First Man Photography ventured to the north of Scotland to photograph some of its mountains. While some people revere Scotland for its natural beauty, I still feel it goes underappreciated. It is, of course, a small country, attached to a country with only a few landscape hotspots, but as you push past the Scottish cities and into the Highlands, it feels as if you've left the U.K.
One of the first photographers I ever got to know happened to live in Scotland and was an award-winning landscape photographer. Though his work didn't prompt me to follow in his footsteps at all, it has always given me a deeper appreciation of the craft and a desire to go back to the Highlands.
But I would walk five hundred miles,
And I would walk five hundred more...
LOL
Change "walk" to "drive" and it pretty much sums up my photography lifestyle. I can't even begin to estimate how many photos I have driven 1,000 miles for. Sadly, many of them I was never able to take, because I never found the wildlife that I was searching for. But it's all worth the effort in the end.
I am glad that folks who live in the U.K. still have somewhere they can to enjoy a large expanse of wilderness that is remote and mostly untrammeled by mankind, without having to leave the U.K. I just hope that regulations are in place to ensure that human development will not be able to encroach on these natural areas. It would be a severe pity if, in 30 or 40 years, there are lodges and golf courses and roads and shops and ranger stations that aren't there now. Keep it 100% wild for ever and ever!