Scotland: The Quiraing, Isle of Skye

Mist-filled, mystical and magical...

The Quiraing was the most amazing, other-worldy place that  I visited while in Scotland.

Located on the Trotternish peninsula on the North Isle of Skye, the Quiraing is a supernaturally beautiful world of ridges, pinnacles, peaks and plateaux.

Created when hundreds of feet of lava rock crushed the softer, older sedimentary rock underneath, causing the terrain to collapse on itself.

The area is still slowly slipping toward the sea...

Requiring annual repairs to the twisting road...

In the timeframe when we visited, the fog was blanketing the ridges and the wind threatened to blow us from the Trotternish Ridge on which we stood...

There's a great hike in this area but we didn't have enough time.

I hope to go back one day so I'm tracking all of that in my Scotland journal...

The Quiraing is one of those areas that are best captured in a panoramic shot.  Lucky for me, my new camera took beautiful panoramic photos.

I was trying to find a way to share it with you so you could see the picture pan across the screen.  

I learned that this is called the Ken Burns effect in an iPhoto slideshow, allowing you to add movement to a still photo.  

It's named after documentary filmmaker Ken Burns who used the effect extensively in his films, giving life and motion to archival photos by zooming and panning around a still photo and splicing it with film.  Who knew?

I share it just in case you were having the same problem today.

I know, I know.  You get such value when you visit here.

Have a magical, mystical day with a Ken Burns effect thrown in for good measure...

Quiraing, Isle of Skye from Susan Elliott on Vimeo.