Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

At the entrance to Glencoe, Scotland.

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R.G. Loc: Scotland

Interesting to see the inclusion of what is usually the reality of that type of terrain - lots of water and bog.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

An interesting, dramatic image that works well with the main element centered. The cloud formations, the smaller mountains and the partial reflections are well placed and diverse enough from each other to help keep the eye moving rather than getting stuck on that gigantic geologic fixture in our faces. Monochrome works well, and I am pretty sure you had good reasons for choosing it, but it would probably be lovely in color as well, if the atmospherics were right.

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

Hello Minnie, the colour version would be titled "A Study in Brown and Blue"

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

Ah! The joy of Scottish bogs

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Thanks for sharing Mr. Smith....minniev has said it well, just enough reflections.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

dark, distant, moody - I like this rendition very much, the only thing missing is a dragon and a dead orc.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I've seen the colour versions but feel this black and white interpretation does more to convey the rugged grandeur that is Scotland.

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

I see a lady's face in the snow at the peak.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Beautiful, the symmetry of the mountain lends itself well to a center position in your composition. I love the detail and the mirrored puddles in the foreground. Good job.
erich

SteveR Loc: Michigan

With the b&w version, I almost expect to see an Orc or two.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Your image is of the perfect mood, Graham!

No need for Orcs or other fictional goads to horror; just read about the English King William's insistence of fealty from the highland Clans, the bad luck of the MacDonalds of Glencoe for being late to sign the document, and William's orders to his sycophantic Campbell of Argyll toadies to pleasantly visit the Glencoe MacDonalds, enjoy their hieland hospitality for a few days, then quietly arise in the middle of a winter's night (Feb 13,1692) and murder every MacDonald they could lay their Claymores to. His order was especially to "Kill the Old Fox (Chief of the Glencoe MacDonalds) and all his cubs". The few survivors ran into the surrounding hills in their nightclothes through a driving snowstorm...bodies to be found in the Spring.

Not a happy spot, that Glen Coe!

Dave

(who was raised on his father's heartfelt renditions of Scottish history...most of the facts of which have been confirmed by my own two shelves of works on the history of my familial homeland)

Scotland for Aye !

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I realize that The Lord of the Rings was fictional and supposedly not related to anything factual, per Tolkien, but considering when it was written, the map of Middle Earth certainly resembled Britain and Europe. Orcs they be real.