This is often the question, usually running late when something catches my eye enroute, either in the car or out walking. I’ll see a possible image but time is pressing and know I probably won’t have time to stop, but I’ll regret it if I don’t stop.
The track was a good vehicle track without obstacles but as usual I was racing the sunrise and putting on a good pace, add to that I’d not been here before so finding a good spot would be needed on arriving for my intended shot. But there was a temperature inversion over the small town of Crieff with the street lights just showing through and the wooded hill just behind called The Knock. I had to stop, it would only take a few moments, wouldn’t it? Well luckily yes, the movements to image capture well rehearsed and almost like a dance as the tripod is set, camera mounted, parameters set and image taken.
Job done I was really pushed and ploughed on along the never ending track to the top followed by some hurried location finding, it was time to get those lungs and heart firing again.
I managed to take the shot I was after, a panorama of Loch Turret with its’ westerly hills, but with a largely cloudless sky, the morning sun had little to offer as it broke over. A return is in order on a more beneficially photographic day. I was glad I stopped, for me the best image of the day was the one that caught my eye and no regrets.