This is a collection of photos from my first photography workshop, with the great Paulo Rosario and Alberto Rocha.

The scenario chosen is the spectacular Isle of Skye, part of the Inner Hebrides: an island whose history is rooted in the depths of past, as the island has been occupied since the mesolithic period, and over its history has been inhabited at various times by Celtic tribes, including the Picts and the Gaels, Scandinavian Vikings, and most notably the powerful integrated Norse-Gaels clans of MacLeod and MacDonald.

The entrance to the Isle of Skye is guarded by the Eilean Donan Castle, a world-class photography highlight.

All along the way, the barren landscape of the Highlands accompanied us - endless non-inhabited lands, crossed by lakes and rivers, and spotted of golden yellow patches of gorse bushes.

Clear highlight: the Old Man of Storr, a dramatic rock formation that pierces the mellow land on the north east coast of the Isle of Skye. Legend says that what we see now is the thumb of a giant, having its eternal rest under the ground below our feet. 

We hiked all the way up before sunrise, to enjoy the mystic and breathtaking landscape in solitude, and capture the changing light of the beginning of the day.

Corran beach provided another perfect playground to capture the lights of sunrise, shining and reflecting on the rocks and the cliff.

Fairy glen is a out-of-time, unrealistically-green little valley that naturally conveys all emotions you might associate with fantasy and myth - despite not having any actual fairy-related legend associated :) 

And Nest Point...THE setting for photographing a most iconic lighthouse on the Hebrides Sea! We waited for hours for the perfect moment, at sunset, to be then deceived by a cloud that appeared and covered the sun at the key moment.

However, the filtrating light embraced us and all other photographers that had convened there - transforming a lost occasion in a golden opportunity.