I’ve been thinking a little more about what I’d like to focus on photographing during my time on Skye…. there are so many photographers taking similar shots here, and I can see why. I do it myself too. Cliffs and mountains and waterfalls, lone bothies in dramatic landscapes. It’s a very photogenic area. But, I think I’m leaning towards some sort of blend of ‘street’ photography and landscape, with a hint of documentary in there. I recently stumbled upon a kid’s bike, the ones with no pedals that they just cruise along with using their feet, abandoned at the side of a quiet coastline. My husband was a bit ‘why are you photographing that’ but it’s the exact thing I want to do. An abandoned toy on a famously beautiful beach… a reminder that people live here and it’s not a barren, uninhabited island.
Something else that really jumped out at me too was the passing place sign that’s been used as target practice. The obvious scenario I jumped to was local kids, bored of the quiet evenings, or not wanting to go into Portree during busy season. Maybe they were on their way to camp on the coastline just down the road. I hope they had more luck than us going that way… we were cut off by a herd of cows. If there’s one thing I don’t mess with, it’s cows.
