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Skye and Torridon Photography Tour

09.04.2024 - 13.04.2024 Northwest Highlands | Colin Prior photography 2200 GBP

The river widened and opened to the shores of Loch Beinn a`Mheadhoin, Its wide flat bore well grown Caledonian pines all in bottle green clusters well spaced with plenty of room to walk betreen the trunks. Through the clearings the glow of sun struck hills was reflected in calm water to rivh colour glowing like an ancient stained-glass window. The scene was the finest of all the Scottish glens or indeed of any I have seen in the Alps or Himalaya. - W H Murray - The Evidence of Things Not Seen 2002

Tour Synopsis
During the course of this tour, we will visit a veriety of locations in and around the three glens detailed below. It has been designed specifically, to give participants the best opportunity of capturing the autumnal palette in some best wooded glens in Scotland.

Glen Affric, frequently described as the most beautiful glen in Scotland, representing the romantic, iconic, image of the Highland landscape, has drawn visitors to the area since Victorian times. Its appeal arises through a combination of dramatic mountains with high corries that drop with steep sides to the cvalley floor in which are set two lochs and a river. The lower slops of the hillsidesare carpeted in forest, one of the most picturesque remnants of native Caledonian Pine Forest in Scotland. Lochs with small bays give way to headlands and wooded isles that provide great backdrops for photography.

Glen Strathfarrar, although less well known, is another archetypal Highland glen with ancient forests covering the lower slopes. Dark green pine woods are interspersed with stands of the lighter birch

Overview

Spend five days on location with Colin Prior. Enjoy access to some of the most varied and dramatic locations in Scotland. Four nights, single occupancy accommodation at the Eilean Iarmain Hotel. Breakfast, three course dinner and packed lunch. Transport to and from Inverness Station. Tutorials and critique with individual feedback.

Accomondation
Four nights, single occupancy accommodarion at the Eilean Iarmain Hotel. Situated in a secluded bay with its own pier and views across to the Knoydart peninsula, the Eilean Iarmian Hotel is perfectly situated for our tour. A three-course dinner at both the Eilean Iarmain's own restaurant and at Sea Breezes in Portree is included. More information can be found at http://eileaniarmain.co.uk/

Exertion
Moderate - these tours involve straightforward hiking generally over good trails. Terrain underfoot is mainly on paths or hill trails which may be muddy in places. There may be a limited amount of uphill walking.

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Colin Prior

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Colin Prior

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors but evolved through a fascination of ... read on

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors but evolved through a fascination of the natural world that shaped all parts of my life and brought them together. The desire, however, to communicate the way I felt about mountains and wild places began ironically, not on dry land but beneath the waves. With little photographic knowledge, I created a portfolio of images around Scotland’s coastline and in the Red Sea and was surprised to win ‘best newcomer to underwater photography’ in the Camera Beneath the Waves competition in 1981. Working at the time as an operations manager it was the catalyst that changed my life, and following a stint on a North Sea oil platform as a photo-technician, I was soon following a career as a professional photographer. In my formative years, I experimented with different genres of photography but found myself concentrating on commercial photography which was, by far, the most lucrative. Commissions by advertising and design agencies for clients in the travel, lifestyle, and leisure sectors paid the bills and helped to establish my reputation as a photographer, allowing me the freedom to pursue personal projects – for the first ten years of my career, I had been living other people’s dreams and not my own. Concentrating almost exclusively on the panoramic format, I set out to photograph Scotland’s wild places in what I believed would be a new and visually exciting way, the results of which were published in two books; Highland Wilderness (1993) and Scotland –The Wild Places (2001), in partnership with Constable. During the mid 90s, I was also commissioned by British Airways to photograph four corporate calendars – with briefs that took me around the world many times to photograph some of its remotest corners and many of its fantastic indigenous cultures. During this time, I roamed the Argentinean pampas with gauchos, lived amongst the Himba in Namibia’s Kaokoland, survived a week in a ‘bush camp’ with Aboriginal Australians, and documented the life-long relationships between Sri Lanka’s mahouts and their elephants. Inevitably, I have had a few scrapes – I flew from Kunming in China to Perth, Australia with a fractured skull having survived a taxi accident, and spent five weeks in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains with a herniated disk – the consequences of food-poisoning, neither of which I would like to repeat. Over the past 10 years, I have worked on a variety of documentaries featuring photography, mountains and travel and most recently on Mountain Man which was filmed in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains. I continue to work closely with the creative community and with the corporate sector with clients such as W H Malcolm, Hornby Hobbies, Calmac, Talent Scotland and Bowmore. My passion for mountains and wild places is shared through a portfolio of photography workshops where the emphasis is placed on the development of personal vision. Photography expressed in terms of technique alone is unintelligible to me, despite having practiced it for three decades.

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