I returned from a very productive photo trip to the Isle of Skye on Monday night after deciding that the weather was not going to be suitable for the type of photography I wanted to carry out. I had so many shots 'in the bag' already and didn't mind returning early and getting on with processing them. I decided to go to Skye mainly to photograph landscapes and I had several spots earmarked from previous visits. Getting up at 4.00am every day is not something I think I'll ever get used to. I have to do it nonetheless and occasionally the light and resulting photographs make it all worthwhile.

Trotternish Ridge at Sunrise (three photographs stitched together)

Female Wheatear

Primrose growing on the Quiraing

Lady Fern growing amongst granite boulders

Sunset at Duntulm

Fulmar in flight at sunset at Duntulm

Maidenhair Spleenwort growing in the mortar of a disused building at Glendale

Red-Throated Diver flapping wings

Red-Throated Diver

Meadow Pipit

Sunset at Oisgill

Dusk at the Coral Beach at Dunvegan

Kelp at low tide at Duntulm

Loch Fada and the Storr at dusk

Oystercatchers Mating at Loch Slapin