A week in Torridon has the potential to be a dream come true for a landscape photographer. Towering mountains, beautiful lochs and the ever present pine trees, all it needs is a suitable bit of weather. That of course means different things to different people. For some it means blue skies and sunshine, for other rich sunsets and for some of us weather that is a little more dramatic and atmospheric. I'm not sure if there is anyone for whole a week of rain is the ideal.There is of course the joy of the challenge. It rarely rains anywhere in the UK continuously for a week so the solution is to watch the weather, scan the forecasts and to make sure that in those fleeting moments we are in the right place."Good light is like a dragonfly. You can't chase it but need to wait patiently and let it come to you."It is fair to say that the past four days have not been particularly productive but may just have give one decent image per day at best. That will emerge when We're home and start sorting and editing. It is also the case that there have been none of those 'competition winning' breaks in the cloud' no lonesome pines isolated beautifully against the black skies. However there have been a few clear moments when photographs have been made and one particular incident where one starts to consider a force running within the universe. We often defer to the term 'recce' when circumstance or weather prevent the making of photographs - no pictures but we've sussed some locations out. This has been a good week for exploration; I haven't been to Torridon since my climbing days and this has effectively been a first visit. In between an occasional image we've been blown about, rained on, sandblasted and experienced various forms of equipment failure. However we've explored Loch Maree, Glen Torridon, Applecross, The Bealach na Ba road, Loch Clair and Mellon Udrigle. All places to which we shall return. Our house for the week at Gairloch looks straight over the sea and a compensation for the poor weather has been the pleasure of watching each phase move in across the sea.After four days I'm in love with Torridon but I fear it will take a number of visits before I start making the images I have in my head.