The Storr, Isle of Skye, Autumn
Hello, readers! It’s been a while.
We’ve just returned from a fortnight around my favourite place on this earth: the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
This is the fourth time we’ve been to the island now; the last time was in 2019 (last year), which was an… interesting time for us as I was diagnosed and then hospitalised with Type II Diabetes.
One year on I’ve put my Diabetes into remission, I’m off the medication, and I’m seven stone lighter.
Huzzah!
Back to this year’s trip; I managed to shoot about 25 Gb of photos, which has took me the whole afternoon to back up and organise. But I knew, even when organising my catalog of images, that the first ones I wanted to edit was our sunrise hike up to The Storr.
The Storr (An Stòr in Scottish Gaelic, meaning “the big”) is the highest point on the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye (719 m/2,359 ft), featuring gentle slopes on its western flank to the summit and then sheer cliffs and otherworldly rock formations on its eastern flank. It’s part of the Trotternish landslip, which is the longest landslip in Great Britain.
Just below the cliffs of the Storr is an area known as the Sanctuary, which houses incredible towers and pinnacles of rock including the most famous one: the Old Man of Storr, a solitary finger of rock 164 ft high.
We woke up before sunrise and began the steep ascent up to the Storr with the sun slowly catching up with us. What followed was a gradual reveal of a temperature inversion below us, spreading out across the sea as we climbed into the Sanctuary above.
A magical experience I’ll never forget.
All photos shot on my Fujifilm X-T2 with a combination of my Samyang 35mm f/1.2 and new Laowa 9mm f/2.8 lenses, using a customised Pro Negative Standard film profile.
More photos to come of some of the other areas we hiked around Skye. Stay tuned!