Ranoonoch Moor Fogbow - Rannoch Moor

A beautiful fogbow over some trees on the banks of Loch Bà in Rannoch Moor on a cold but fantastic morning on the way home from a great winter trip into the snowy Glen Coe area of the Scottish Highlands.

This was a cold, fresh and stunningly beautiful morning in Rannoch moor that morning, I was on my way home driving along the a82 past Loch Bà in the direction of Bridge of Orchy when the the thick fog started to thin out just a little. I knew the sun was just about to come up and I also knew from experience that once the fog thins to a fine mist and the sun hits it you tend to get some nice fogbow formations,

A fogbow is similar to a rainbow although the vaporised droplets of condensation that make up the mist and fog are too small to refract the colours in the light in the way a rainbow would when scattered through rain so all you see is the refracted light in the water vapour giving a ghost like rainbow formation instead.

So I pulled into the carpark at Loch Bà and waited for the sun to come up and I wasn’t disappointed, the mist thinned out and the sun rose creating this lovely fogbow scene over these lovely Rowan trees on the banks of Loch Bà in Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands.

(I’ll leave a list of some equipment that I used with links if anyone’s looking for inspiration or for a starting point for their own mountain photography shopping list)

For more information on the location, equipment and settings I used to capture this image, please continue reading below

Equipment, Settings and Location

Camera and Lens

Nikon D750 - (ISO100, 1s, 14mm @f/8)

Samyang 14mm f/2.8

Manfrotto 290 Dual Tripod with Manfrotto 496RC2 Compact Ball Head

Clothing and Equipment

Camera Bag - Modified North Face 35lr backpack

Walking Boots - Mammut Trovat GTX

Crampons - universal ice grips

Gloves - Black Diamond Crag

OS (Ordinance Survey) Map and Compass

Head Torch - Black Diamond Storm 400

Location

Loch Bà, Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands. (See Map Below)