Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Taking pictures in the stills room was strictly prohibited for security reasons. At least I got this souvenir. (The other one is standing on my shelf.)

View onto Stac Pollaidh from Sgurr an Fhiedhleir. The Sgurr an Fhiedhleir is inaccessible from three sides. From the fourth side even a couch potato like me can climb it with a little effort. The view is breathtaking.

As a teenager I used to hear a certain radio show late in the evening (Jazz and Blues). I had to be in bed already. Before the show began I heard the rather longish Shipping Forcast which I hear now, when I am out sailing in the baltic.
Part of this weather report are station reports with temperature, humidity, Wind and the like from places all over northern europe. The places had exotic names like Tyboroen, Stavanger, Tynemouth, Den Helder and so forth and I alway wondered where all these places are and what they are like.

Beeing over 50 now one day the thought came up that when I really want to find out in this life I'd better go and have a look and of cause take home at least one picture of each place. So this year I had Stornoway, Tynemouth and Den Helder on my list.

Unfortunately being photogenic was obviously not the most important criterion for choosing these places for the station reports. Besides Stornoway we have been in Tynemouth but skipped Den Helder. I could not expect my partner to go there too.

It is not my goal to take pictures which people would expect typical for the respective place (there are lots on flicr already ). The project is solely about me and what made me impressed about the place. In Stornoway it was this part of the park and the light there. We came there by chance. We had to walk our dog before boarding the ferry back to Ullapool.

As I took this one I thought that the point I shot from was pretty obvious so that there must exist thousands of similar pictures. Funny enough on flicr I found only one which had a similar perspective though taken in portrait format with more emphasize on the rock. It is comforting to know that one can take new pictures even from such popular subjects.

I didn't find Kilt Rock very interesting. This is just the opposite  view