Near Inverness I found a narrow land tongue with wide water view and a moon hanging over an offshore structure. I expected the next morning to bring a clear lunar eclipse.
Instead: rain, clouds, and no eclipse for me.
Travel photography is full of this equation: expectation minus control. The best response is not frustration, but adaptation. In bad visibility I shift from horizon compositions to near-field color layers: wet grass, dark stones, diffuse reflections, subtle tonal transitions. ICM works especially well then because poor visibility already removes hard edges.
Later I moved north, found a sheltered former harbor, and slept with wave noise. No iconic event happened. But one of my strongest habits was reinforced: do not photograph what you hoped for, photograph what is actually present.
Authentic color is not only sunshine. Grey has a palette too.
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