Ben Nevis at Dawn

Ben Nevis is revealed through breaking cloud at dawn.

This was a cool autumn morning; an overnight change in the prevailing winds from south-west to north-east had partly cleared the low level cloud to reveal an upper layer of cirrus – the combination of which was quite striking. The location is the shoreline of Loch Eil at Corpach and, as is customary, I have excluded the Caledonian Canal Basin from the shot. My original intention was to include the rising sun in the shot; but its eventual arrival behind the ridge of Ben Nevis was diffused by the many cloud layers. The most interesting image of the morning therefore turned out to be that of the pre-dawn rather than sunrise itself.