Island of Raasay, Highland, sets a white cottage above turquoise water and dark shore rocks, with a sharp mountain chain rising across the sea under billowing cloud.

A grassy headland slopes through bands of slate-grey rock towards small inlets at the waterline. The cottage has a red roof and pale chimneys, standing alone above the shore. Across the channel, steep blue-grey peaks form a serrated horizon, while lighter green foothills meet the calm sea.

For people crossing to or from the Island of Raasay, the meeting of a small shoreline house and far mountains can recall the changing view from the water. The coast remains close in the foreground, but the long range across the channel gives the island its wider Highland setting.