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Amorielli Vol. 0 · No. 05 · May 2024 Portfolio p. 24

Portfolio · Vol. 0 · No. 05 · May 2024

The Scottish Highlands in pictures

8 photographs from the cover story, The Scottish Highlands, printed large. Photographs by Clem_nat, DeFacto, Paul Stümke, Milada Vigerova mili_vigerova, Bewahrerderwerte, Enric, Giorgio Galeotti, S. Perquin, from Wikimedia Commons under the licences credited on each image.

The rock pinnacle of the Old Man of Storr rising above the Trotternish ridge on the Isle of Skye under a clear sky. — The Old Man of Storr, Trotternish, Isle of Skye.

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Colourful houses along the harbour front of Portree, with a church and green hillside behind and boats in the harbour — Portree, the main town on the Isle of Skye.

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The curved stone arches of the Glenfinnan Viaduct crossing a green glen under dark clouds, seen through foliage — The Glenfinnan Viaduct above Loch Shiel, Lochaber.

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A winding tarmac road with white lines curves through a valley, flanked by grassy hills, under a pale sky with distant mountains. — Readers are looking at a road winding through Cairngorms National Park, Ballater, United Kingdom, with grassy hills on either side.

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A large stone cairn between standing stones on grassy ground, with tall trees behind — This photograph shows Clava Cairns & Standing Stones, a prehistoric cemetery at Balnuaran of Clava in the valley of the River Nairn.

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A river flowing past a row of stone buildings, including a hotel with two turrets, with a bridge beyond and daffodils on the bank — The Palace Hotel and other stone buildings on the bank of the River Ness in Inverness.

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A grey-blue loch with a small boat moored at a jetty and hills on both shores under a cloudy sky — Loch Ness at Fort Augustus, at the south end of the loch, in May 1989.

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A steam train with multiple carriages travels across a long, arched stone viaduct in a green, hilly landscape under an overcast sky. — The Jacobite Steam Train is shown passing over the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line at Glenfinnan, in the Lochaber district of north-western Scotland.

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