Photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid - Sunset in the Cairngorm National Park, located in northeast Scotland, officially established as a park in 2003. At 1,467 square miles, it is Britain’s largest National Park and located within the heart of the Scottish Highlands. A landscape shaped by the ice age, peat rivers, lochs and ancient forests, a rare wildlife stronghold, it's categorised as a protected landscape -“Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only those who can move swiftly over vast stretches of ground may hope to survive. The speed, the whorls and torrents of movement, are in plain fact the mountain's own necessity. But their grace is not necessity. Or if it is - if the swoop, the parabola, the arrow-flight of hooves and wings achieve their beauty by strict adherence to the needs of function - so much the more is the mountain's integrity vindicated. Beauty is not adventitious but essential.” - The Living Mountain by Scottish writer and poet Nan Shepherd (1893-1981) To see more of my work and projects in the Cairngorms National Park, and elsewhere, follow me here @natgeo and @chancellordavid @cairngormsnationalpark #scotland #wildlife #conservation #conserving #wild
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