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Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 7:28 am**

I'm in Scotland on a uni exchange at the moment, and last weekend finally managed to get up to the highlands. These are all taken around Loch Muick and Lochnagar in the Southern Cairngorms.

All with an Oly E-3 and ZD 12-60 SWD

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 8:09 am**

Must be viewed with the background music "Mull of Kintyre".
Great stuff, thanks for sharing! A really interesting perspective. Ya lucky so & so...

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 8:14 am**

Awesome stuff thanks for sharing Nick! Great to see another part of the world in the Gallery!!

you can see why the Scots were attracted to Tassies Highlands!!

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 8:15 am**

Like the pictures. The countryside is a lot more open than here (Tasmania). Nice to see someone with the same camera setup - also got a 70-300 recently.

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 8:31 am**

MJD wrote:Like the pictures. The countryside is a lot more open than here (Tasmania). Nice to see someone with the same camera setup - also got a 70-300 recently.

The 70-300 is an outstanding lens, especially for the money! I have the 50-200 SWD myself, which is great for surfing and so on...

ILUVSWTAS wrote:you can see why the Scots were attracted to Tassies Highlands!!

It was a bit surreal to tell the truth. Bits, like the track mud oddly enough, where strikingly similar (in this case because of the peat). But at the same time the Scottish Highlands make you realise how wild and isolated parts of Tasmania are; these shots were taken within 10km of one of the Queen's holiday homes

I was telling some local walkers about places like the South-West Track and they were blown away that you could be days from anywhere in a place as small as Tassie :-)

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 10:14 am**

Great shots.

That looks like the Glas Allt near Glas-Allt-Shiel?

Trudged that way in May myself. Must put a link to the Gallery up! The area around Lochnagar looks daunting enough without the snow, but this looks positively scary. (Is this near the Stuik?)

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 10:22 am**

And this one:

nickthetasmaniac wrote:

Looks to be taken not far from here:

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 4:24 pm**

photohiker wrote:Trudged that way in May myself.

Wondered how long it would be before you discovered this topic :wink:

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 4:46 pm**

Great! Another place to add to my goto list.

Wicked pictures eh

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 6:06 pm**

tasadam wrote:
photohiker wrote:Trudged that way in May myself.

Wondered how long it would be before you discovered this topic

haha

Bit under 3 hours apparently

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 9:48 pm**

photohiker wrote:Great shots.

That looks like the Glas Allt near Glas-Allt-Shiel?

Yep

Must put a link to the Gallery up! The area around Lochnagar looks daunting enough without the snow, but this looks positively scary. (Is this near the Stuik?)

Honestly not sure if it is... This was not too far from the summit of Lochnagar...

Pretty sure your photo of the creek is from almost exactly the same place! Near a little bridge where the track branches off for the Lochnagar circuit?

Posted: **Sat 30 Oct, 2010 11:00 pm**

nickthetasmaniac wrote:Pretty sure your photo of the creek is from almost exactly the same place! Near a little bridge where the track branches off for the Lochnagar circuit?

Yep. I reckon I stopped to have a snack and lose some tourists who were looking at me strangely (could have been the smell haha)

If its real close to Lochnagar, then it wouldn't be the Stuik - its about 3km or so away (west) from Cac Carn Beag (the actual summit) More likely its a view of the Lochnager corrie.

Great walking country!

Posted: **Sun 31 Oct, 2010 7:06 pm**

That shot with the walker near the cliff, in the fog, is just brilliant.

*sigh*
So many places to go, so little money . . .

Posted: **Sun 31 Oct, 2010 9:16 pm**

Thanks for posting mate. so where are all the trees?
And sorry I must say I wondered how william wallace would have fared running over those mountains with a kilt

Posted: **Mon 01 Nov, 2010 9:54 am**

Cool photos, especially love the second one. Looks like great walking over there!

Posted: **Mon 01 Nov, 2010 9:33 pm**

really nice phots ... thanks for posting

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