When you’re on holiday, you take the weather you’ve got. On the Isle of Harris, even in August, that frequently means overcast. So I approached Luskentyre beach – one of the UK’s most beautiful – with a sense of eagerness, looking forward to the exploration but not expecting to go home with any particularly great photos.

Even though I had my camera with me, I didn’t even take it out of my satchel for this photo. It’s just a record shot, right? A memory from my holiday of a tranquil walk on the Isle of Harris. .

Until today, watching a slideshow of the photos from that holiday, this photo stopped me in my tracks. Another hobby of mine is creating digital photos from my photos, And looking at this one, I couldn’t tell if it was a photo or a painting. The muted colours, the sweep of clouds obscuring the details of the horizon. It all looked so … painterly. But no. When I checked the EXIF, I saw that this is exactly the image my phone captured. No editing, just a phone cam doing its thing, Nice one, Nokia.