“A Unique Perspective on the Old Man of Storr + An Incredible Sunrise!”

Good morning. It's a bit of a fresher. It's fresh but it's not windy. No that's very true, it's better than yesterday. Are you going up to do some photographs? Yeah. Morning guys and welcome to what appears to be a very still and pretty damn awesome morning I've got to tell you. I'm currently heading up to the old manor stall. I'm on the Isle of Skye just in case you didn't know where the old manor stall was and I'm actually vlogging today under very different circumstances for me at least. I'll explain more of that when I get to the very top but I'm also going to get to the very top. I'm going to get higher than what is considered to be the photographer's ledge. Much higher. You can't see it on this video probably but all the way up there. So I'm going to photograph the old manor stall at a very different perspective. But in the meantime I've got a lot more huffing and puffing to do so rather than you guys listen to me huffing and puffing I'll show you half a dozen or so of my favourite images that I captured last week on the Isle of Harris and Lewis. I'll see you legends in a minute. A few moments later. We're just about up to the photographer's ledge and I've got to tell you it's a cracking morning. Cracking cracking morning. Now we're 10 minutes off sunrise. I don't want to miss sunrise so what I might do is actually just go to the photographer's ledge take a couple of shots from there as the sun is rising and then I'll go to the higher perspective just so that you've got a comparison between what is the norm and what can be achieved if you look outside the box or just go higher up. A little bit more huffing and puffing to do. That's not too shoddy. So I'm at the very top. Now before I explain why I'm vlogging today because it is a bit unusual because I'm running a workshop and I never vlog on workshops but I'll explain the reasons why I am today. But before I show you this incredible reveal up here look behind me. That's all snow. That's the Trotness Ridge here on the Isle of Skye. It's the second of April. It's bank holiday next weekend. Is it next weekend or this weekend? I'm not really sure. Bank holiday next weekend. I can't feel my fingers. It's bloody freezing. Let me give you this reveal. At the moment I'm on the raised perspective. The shelf well above what is considered or what is known as the photographer shelf which is way way down. I'll show you where that is in a second. But just take a look at this raised area here. Let me spin you guys around and give you a bit of a reveal. Oh it's pretty cool isn't it? Hell's teeth man seriously. I can't feel my fingers and I've also left my microphone in the van and no I'm not going back down for it. So uh but hopefully the onboard microphone is okay or will suffice. Now in the distance down there you just see one photographer. One lazy photographer just turned up now some half an hour after sunrise and that's the photographer shelf there. Now the biggest problem in my eyes is that most people will turn up, park the tripods down, take a couple pictures from there, tick a box and then walk back down and I think that's quite quite sad. It's okay you have to go there. It is the A1 position. It's the A1 position for a very good reason but always take the honeypot shot but then try and make it your own. Having said that though I don't necessarily believe it's a better shot from up here only because from this raised perspective you actually look down onto the old manor store. So you place the old manor store in the land as opposed to the old manor store jutting above the horizon in the background and looking a lot grander than it does from here. To get here if you're interested just head to the photographer's ledge and then walk back away from yourself as if you're going to walk along the Trotterdish ridge and then you can walk right around the back of where I am now and it's a bit of a scramble coming up. Now it's not an easy scramble so if you're a bit of a nervous scrambler or a bit of a nervous walker then it's definitely not for you but if you fancy a different perspective of the old manor store and you're okay on your feet and you're not afraid of heights then why not give it a go. Oh man this is something special. Now water is definitely not for me. I'm a little bit nervous even being here but there is a path that leads out where again you can probably get another perspective but definitely not recommended for probably the likes of you and me that's rock climbing territory that's not for me at all. Oh it's just beautiful from here though just wonderful. A place like this is take time out put your camera down enjoy a cup of coffee enjoy the view and just remember why you like photography so much it's not all about taking photographs it's about this incredible experience as well incredible experience than being on top of the world. Apologies if you can see any snot dripping off the end of my nose by the way any cold oh oh seriously the sunrise now and the light's not particularly brilliant but it's still amazing you know just wonderful let me just come down and get a bit of respite from that wind oh oh now it's a bit of an unusual one for me this week because I'm running a workshop in the Isle of Skye and I never ever vlog when I'm running workshops I would I'd feel that it was being disrespectful to the participants and well it's just not a done thing as far as I'm concerned but this week is ever so weird I've got five victims I mean participants on the workshop four of which have been with me before on other workshops one of them has been on I think three workshops before maybe even four but out of the four that have been on my workshops before three of them have actually been on the Isle of Skye workshop before my Isle of Skye workshop before but they enjoyed it so much they decided to come again and the fifth participant David is a very accomplished photographer so basically I felt completely unwanted this week it's not like me at all everybody was just happy to do their own thing so hence the reason I'm just taking time out to make this vlog and where better place than up the old manor store obviously I've brought the guys up to the old manor store and because I've been here so many times that's why I thought I would introduce you guys just in case you didn't know it was possible to actually go higher than the standard photographer's ledge and it's quite good I love it up here it's a very different perspective I'll be honest with you I'm not 100% sure it's better than the lower down perspectives because from up here you're looking down onto the old manor store so the old manor store sits in the ground as opposed to being down below when the old manor store sits in the sky a very different vlog indeed this week but hopefully you guys have been enjoyed the extra dramatic drone footage that I've left in this video oh not really much else to do or say I suppose except I'll show you a few of the pictures I've taken from here and because I was droning when I was on the photographer's ledge during sunrise I didn't take any photos so what I'll also do is include one or two of the participants pictures of the normal shot that photographers take the go-to shot from the ledge and I'll leave the credit to those photos at the bottom of the pictures and if you guys want to go check out the other work if you like their pictures then send them some love from me as well right oh take a look at these pictures and don't forget to send the guys some love till the next time guys cheers