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A (Visual) Slice of Today
The ever-changing light and weather of Skye are far more interesting than day after day of relentless brightness and heat. Today’s was no exception, and changed apace. (Forecast: gusts up to 50mph.)
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A Day for Reflection
Crisp sunshine, ultramarine sky with fluffy white clouds, snow-dusted peaks, no wind… today was the northwest Highlands in tranquil mode. Calming, majestic, mesmerizing. Full of visual puzzles if you...
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Photos: There (Stornoway) & Back (Uig) Again
There’s a temporary ferry running between Uig and Stornoway whilst work is being done on the ferry terminal at Ullapool, presenting the opportunity to do a journey and to see bits of seascape I...
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Photos: Colour Palette for a Skye Spring
Wandering around the gardens at Armadale Castle on Sunday felt like I was walking through a palette of colours for painting springtime Skye. The intensity of colours, the variations in light and shade,...
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Photos: Summer Colours of Skye
An assortment of photos, of things that have caught my eye recently. Lots of foxgloves this year; apparently cold weather helps this profusion.
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5 Days of Creative Retreating (Part 2: Photos of Objects)
A few things that caught my attention wandering around before and after class on last week’s creative break in Gardenstown: Fluttering shadows The source of the shadows above Seaside pebble garden...
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5 Days of Creative Retreating (Part 3: Photos of Nature)
There’s an abundance of inspiring landscape/seascape at Gardenstown, with the changing light and weather adding variations throughout the day. These are a few moments I felt compelled to photograph:...
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A Grave Lesson
In the old cemetery at Kilmuir (north Trotternish, Skye), dominated by the tall memorial to Flora MacDonald, there’s another gravestone that to me is a reminder that sometimes not finishing something...
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My Head in the Clouds
Driving home yesterday from my usual Saturday at Skyeworks, I was compelled to stop and take some snaps of the clouds. The light was simply too beautiful and dramatic to resist. (I also thought the...
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No Message in the Bottle
I squelched along a post-double-storm soggy Uig beach yesterday afternoon and found a small sealed bottle, No message inside. (Unless the water is meant to tell me something.)
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