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trailer/falls

A farm trailer and a waterfall, also discovered because of the detour that I mentioned yesterday.

These waterfalls come and go, depending on how much rain there’s been. This one was rushing and just as I left the sound of it changed – and the amount of water noticeably increased. And on the other hand, when I looked at this place on a street-view map, the trailer was there but not one drop of water was flowing down the mountain.

Allt Chreaga Dubha Waterfall
Isle of Mull, Scotland

photographed 11.9.2023

mountains and ruins

We hadn’t planned on going on this road, but a car crash blocked the road we meant to take, necessitating a detour.

And what a detour it was…

Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023

before the rainbow

If you squint and/or zoom in, you may be able to see the tiny, faint piece of a rainbow on the far left. Just seconds after I made this photo, a huge, bright rainbow appeared, which resulted in a group of photographers going as fast as they could across wet rocks and slippery seaweed (while carrying cameras and tripods) to get the right angle for The Shot of wrecked boats and a rainbow (which shortly turned into a double rainbow).

Any non-photographers who saw the scramble probably thought, “Photographers are weird.”

They are not wrong, of course. But we’re weird in a nice way.

near Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023

the ragged end

These boats met their end on the shore of Salen Bay, on the Isle of Mull and now they are a photographic destination. I’m not sure how long they’ve been there, but the boat on the left has a tree growing in it.

near Salen, Isle of Mull, Scotland
photographed 11.9.2023