The Ultimate Western Highlands

We take peo­ple all over the world on pho­tog­ra­phy tours to far flung places, and wher­ev­er we have been, and of all the pho­tog­ra­phers we have met, they always speak of the stag­ger­ing beau­ty of the Highlands.

In years gone by we have cho­sen par­tic­u­lar areas of Scot­land to vis­it with tours result­ing in over a decade of hap­py mem­o­ries of the times we have had. As a cel­e­bra­tion of our absolute devo­tion for Scot­land, we have decid­ed to cre­ate the trip of a life­time trav­el­ing to the unques­tion­able very best this part of Scot­land offers the land­scape photographer.

This tour will span eight days of adven­ture begin­ning and con­clud­ing in the cap­i­tal of the High­lands, Inver­ness. The land­scapes of this part of the coun­try present some of the most diverse loca­tions the ded­i­cat­ed pho­tog­ra­ph­er could ever hope to expe­ri­ence. There are far too many places to list here, but be assured, they will be the gems we have ever dis­cov­ered in the many years of pho­tograph­ing this wilderness.

We will take you to the very far north of the main­land explor­ing the coast look­ing out over the vast north­ern seas. From here we will trav­el through the wilder­ness of Suther­land slow­ly head­ing south tak­ing in the won­ders of the Assynt and West­er Ross before ven­tur­ing into the breath­tak­ing sur­round­ings of Tor­ri­don, Apple­cross and the Kyle of Lochalsh.

In the south we will take the bridge over to the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides to pho­to­graph some of the won­ders of its land­scape, before head­ing north along the shores of Loch Ness arriv­ing back at Inverness. 

Dur­ing our tour we will vis­it many of the glens cut deep by the Late Deven­sian Glacia­tion over ten thou­sand years ago that now hold the deep dark waters of Scotland’s many vast lochs. Wher­ev­er there are lochs, there are moun­tains which we will be sur­round­ed by, and trav­el through some of the most cap­ti­vat­ing moun­tain scenery almost every day.

From the lochs, rivers always flow, head­ing towards the sea. The rivers of the west­ern High­lands often flow rapid­ly and are beau­ti­ful­ly peaty and dark with many a cas­cade and water­fall. We will nev­er be far away from the river­banks and amidst the trees that often sur­round them.

When you walk into some of the wood­lands of the High­lands you feel like you are walk­ing back in time. They feel untouched, mys­ti­cal places where we will lose our­selves in our pho­tog­ra­phy. Our tour will vis­it some of the ancient wood­lands untouched for thou­sands of years, dense in beech, oak and moun­tain ash. Along with mature wood­lands, we will ded­i­cate time in the sil­ver birch wood­lands, ubiq­ui­tous in all of Scot­land, that perch them­selves on the hill­sides with their twist­ed branch­es, com­mon­ly draped in lichen.

No tour of Scotland’s west­ern High­lands would be com­plete with­out spend­ing time on its world-famous coast­line. There is an almost infi­nite choice of rocky bays that boast some of the world’s old­est geol­o­gy with wave cut plat­forms and sea stacks. The pris­tine sandy bays are unmatched in their beau­ty, and we will wend away many an hour with our cam­eras look­ing out over the turquoise seas towards the sur­round­ing moun­tain ranges wit­ness­ing the weath­er and light rapid­ly change as it often does here.

This tour is the ulti­mate pho­to­graph­ic adven­ture to the very best land­scapes in the West­ern High­lands, arguably the world, and lim­it­ed to only six peo­ple. Paul and Michael will always be on hand to offer advice and work with you on your pho­tog­ra­phy, and as always, we will set some time aside to share your images and have an infor­mal image review.