Photo of the day 234

Scottish Sea Town, Pennan, Scotland, U.K., 2006

Photograph by Jim Richardson

The uniformly whitewashed cottages of Pennan, Scotland, line up around a quiet cove in Moray Firth as boats rest within a small manmade harbor. The town has been in existence for over a thousand years but gained international fame in the 1980s as the fictional village of Ferness in the popular movie Local Hero.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Celt Appeal," March 2006, National Geographic magazine)