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Evening light plays on Loch Eilt's silver palette. A sublime image on a mercurial loch on
Evening light plays on Loch Eilt's silver palette. A sublime image on a mercurial loch on "The Road to the Isles," Inverness-shire, Scotland.

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Loch Lomond, Loch Maree, Loch Morar, Loch Awe,
Loch Etive, Loch Tay, Loch Ness….
With over thirty thousand other lochs and lochans
in Scotland, what if someone asked me:-
“Of the hundreds you’ve seen,
which, so far, is your favourite?”
I might be tempted to answer, “This one, Loch Eilt.”
A mere three miles long and at
its widest only half a mile across.
Skirted on the north shore by the A.830,
“The Road to the Isles,”
and on the southern shore by the “Potter” line,
it is exquisitely beautiful.
Here, at 20:00, well before sunset, in June,
the fair weather cloud and the northern hills
block the sun as it slowly arcs towards the north-west.
This darkens the foreshore prematurely,
perfect for reflections on such a still, warm, balmy day.
Of a marvellous eighteen hours of daylight,
there is still 2-3 more to enjoy!
Oh, to be on the west coast in June.
The ultimate prize.

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Taken on: June 2, 2011
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/9.0, 1/160 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture: f/9.0
Exposure Time: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Not Defined
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Lightroom 7.1.2 (Windows)
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