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Concrete Highlands

Concrete beast in the Scottish Highlands

This January I had the privilege to get up to the Scottish Highlands and shoot some portfolio work.

Along with summiting a few Munro’s, we hiked up to the Cruachan Dam in Argyle and Bute.

I adore a lovely lump of concrete, stone, or anything brutalist. It’s something that has always inspired my photography, living in London.

When I can find it interacting with the natural world, I’m in utopia.

Anyone who thinks that the dam looks familiar, may recognise it from the latest Star Wars series ‘Andor’. The dam was used as by the Empire, and subsequently raided by rebels.

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