Loch Monar stretches through a high rocky valley, where pale blue water surrounds small green-topped islets beneath open Highland skies and gives the scene a remote clarity.

Large rounded rocks edge the foreground, with low red plants growing between their pale faces. Several small islets sit in the turquoise water, their grass caps reflected below. Dark grey mountain walls close around the loch before giving way to softer blue ridges, while long cream clouds lie across the upper sky.

Anyone who has sought out Loch Monar's quieter reaches may know the sense of distance created by water, rock and narrowing slopes. The view holds the islets close to the shore before following the channel into the valley, where the hills meet the pale horizon.