The Buachaille Etive Mor and River Coupall

Stob Dearg, the main peak of Buachaille Etive Mor from the River Coupall.

In this image I wanted to focus on the north face of the Buachaille Etive Mor and in particular its many famous and popular climbing routes. After walking the river bank several times, it became clear that the location I had identified and used twenty-five years earlier near Jacksonville was indeed still precisely where I needed to be to capture the best view of the face. I was a little suprised that even after all the years that passed and all the millions of gallons of water that had flowed down the river in the intervening time, I could still identify the rock patterns in the river that pin-pointed the exact location where I had taken my original image. This print captures the entire north face of the mountain to perfection and also emphasises its dramatic and dominant and presence on the very edge of the open Rannoch Moor.