Trust Your Instincts

This is a shot that the vast majority of photographers would have probably missed. I know I nearly did. The shot was taken on the approach walk to a high camp in the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye & the camera equipment was packed away in my rucksack. Five minuets before the shot was taken the peak was fully shrouded in mist and in complete shadow but somehow I felt that things where about to change. I quickly unpacked the camera and swapped out my lens for the long telephoto, (I am over a mile from the peak) and set the camera up on the tripod. And waited. Not for long though. Within a few minutes, as if by magic, the mist cleared and the peak began to reveal itself. Then suddenly for the most fleeting of moments a glimmer of sunshine appeared from nowhere and lit the lower part of the mountain. I litterly had time to fire off one shot before it was gone. Probably one of the most important lessons any photographer should learn is to simply trust their instincts.