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Buy your own Guardian classic photograph: Buachaille Etive Mor, 2018

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This week in our series of classic Guardian photographs, Murdo MacLeod captures a raven at the top of Stob Dearg on Buachaille Etive Mor, the autumn chill starting to set in and Glencoe in the distance

Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

A raven at the top of Stob Dearg on Buachaille Etive Mor looks out to Glencoe and beyond in September last year, as temperatures start to dip below freezing and the first flurries of snow appear. Buachaille Etive Mor is one of the best loved of all Scottish peaks. The epic view of the mountain from the A82 makes it appear quite unassailable, and it is one of the most photographed sights in Scotland. This bird, one of a pair – the other had flown off seconds earlier – was amazingly tame, says photographer Murdo Macleod: “My fingertips could have touched it.” Macleod wasn’t on assignment that day; he had just scrambled up the side of Stob Dearg. What makes this photograph special? “It captures the drama and theatre of nature,” he says.

Words: Hannah Booth

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