Mist on Craig Phinian, Glencoe

Photograph of mist crowning the top of a mountain. A deep crevasse runs vertically down the mountain side and a low stone wall also runs vertically halfway up the mountain side from the base.

Following on from his excursion into England in the Spring of 1860, Wilson photographed in Scotland during the autumn of that year, and continued to experiment with taking 'instantaneous' photographs that allowed him to capture transient features using shorter exposure times. His ability to photograph fog and mist as in this example, was part of this advancement in photographic technology that Wilson sought to exploit.