Glencoe Winter Photography

Glencoe in Winter Landscape Photography

Glencoe Winter Photography

This blog will hopefully show Glencoe off in all its glory during a very special time for landscape photography, winter!

Glencoe in Winter

In this video, I explore some of my favourite locations for landscape photography in Glencoe, especially in winter!
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The date was early December, and I had just finished a winter workshop in Glencoe. Then, to my surprise, weather warning after weather warning pinged on my phone. We were blessed with a light dusting of snow during my workshop but it was nothing for what was about to hit the Scottish Highlands!

Now for the record, I have been to Glencoe a few times during snowy times. In fact, it was just before the world took a 2-year break that I found myself stuck in a white-out! Stuck being the operative word there. Mind you, getting the van stuck when there are 5 burley helpers onboard to help push is always a bonus. Anyways, this wasn’t going to be one of those times, this was going to be a whole new ball game.

Glencoe in the snow

Whilst the weather warnings didn’t bring the snow I had hoped for, the conditions the weather did bring were even better, way better! The snow didn’t fall but the temperature certainly did. I recorded minus 12 in the van at one stage. Instead of a white-out everywhere, the very low temperatures brought about a great freeze. Oh man was it cold!

Glencoe Winter Photography

The great freeze!
Everywhere was frozen. The lakes were rock solid. The waterfalls just looked like time had stood still, very still! Stranger than that, there was a little dusting of snow but it wasn’t enough to cover the mountains, roads or grass. In fact, the only thing the snow actually stuck to was the ice. Whilst this might seem like nothing out of the ordinary it was very bizarre to look at. In the film below (Part 1) you can see what I mean, especially during the drone fly-overs. Look for the green grass and overly-white frozen rivers, they look unnatural.

PART I