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The northernmost lock of the Caledonian Canal, where it enters the Moray Firth at Inverness
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Creagan nan Laogh from the train in Strath Bran
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Grey Heron fishing on Kyle Akin
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Near the Skye Bridge looking towards the Cuillins
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The Skye Bridge
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Trawler and Skye Bridge from the Kyle of Lochalsh
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Above Lochinver on the old road to Loch Assynt
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A billion-year-old mountain: Suilven looming behind Lochinver
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Quinaq
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The banded gneiss - "in places the stripes twist this way and that as if the rock once had the structural integrity of toothpaste"
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The modern road, rolling up and down a three-billion year-old hummocky plateau
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Because there are few man-made objects on the plateau, it's hard to get a sense of scale
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Edinburgh from Arthur's Seat
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Salisbury Crag in Edinburgh. Redefining a 'walk in the park'
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Ancient Highlands
Parts of the Northwest Highlands are amongst the oldest landscapes on Earth. The Lewisian Gneisses, a striped and banded family of rocks that form a hummocky plateau along the north west sea-board of Scotland, were formed between 2.5 and 3 billion years ago.