Fortunato Gatto's Image

Fortunato caught the last ferry to Eigg before the storm hit. Timing his trip carefully, snow on the mountains of Rùm coincided with low tide and a beautiful dawn the next morning. As the first light hit the distant peaks, everything came together in this sublime moment – the dynamic clouds contrasting with the rippled sand.

The islands of Eigg and Rùm face each other across a deep trench of water in the Scottish Hebrides. Eigg formed from a lava flow, and the remains of that volcano became Rùm. The shiny metallic sand in Laig Bay is a mixture of bright white shells and dark grains from Eigg’s volcanic past.