Island paradise
A trip by amateur photographers to capture some of Scotland’s most spectacular seascapes features in the latest episode of Photography Online.
The Youtube instalment shows the team arriving on St Kilda, the UK’s only Unesco double World Heritage Site, after getting special permission.
Uninhabited since 1930, when the islanders evacuated after deciding life there was no longer sustainable, the island far off the west coast of Scotland is a stunning pictureperfect location – and a photographer’s dream.
Photographs from the trip, left, show everything from Atlantic puffins to rare species not seen elsewhere, such as the St Kilda wren, not forgetting the spectacular sunrises and sunsets, cliffs and sea stacks or the spectacular views from the sea.
One of the photographers, who kept a diary detailing his time shooting on the island, described how capturing the sunrise before swimming in the sea was “one of the best days of my life”.