Eysturoy Island, Faroe Islands - Kelvin Trautman

A late autumn view of one of the many age-old hiking trails that criss cross this mid Atlantic archipelago. Some people have described the Faroe's as one of the greatest European wildernesses - thanks in part to the two million pairs of seabirds; guillemots, fulmars, storm petrels and, of course, the famously cute puffins. For me though the geology of the place was most remarkable. The rock formations were other other-worldly, and around each corner there seemed to an equally, and if not more bizarre and primordially beautiful sea stack, spiny arête, or vertigo inducing sea cliff.