Water levels at a Highland loch have dropped low enough to reveal a landscape of a road and bridge usually hidden underwater.
Cathel Innes took these striking pictures of Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, over the weekend which appear to show the effects of the recent dry weather.
Water is drawn from the loch to supply Mossford power station.
Met Office forecaster Gordon McKinstry said the prolonged dry spell has been caused by a “blocked weather pattern” which stops the flow of weather coming in from the Atlantic. He said the west of the region has been especially dry.
But he said the warm conditions will change markedly on Wednesday as the more usual wet and windy weather arrives from the Atlantic.
One local weather expert in the Western Isles, Eddy Graham, said on Friday that Stornoway has had 19 consecutive days of zero rainfall, which he says is a new record for consecutive days without rain in the town.
His provisional results show that the driest spells in Stornoway, since records began in 1930, were 27 consecutive days with up to 0.2mm of rain from March 22, 1974, and 23 days with 0.4mm from May 5, 2008.
