Photography…mostly.

Tag: big sky

  • Leaving Harris and Lewis

    Final frames from my first visit to Harris and Lewis in November 2016. There are lots of pre-trip processes I do mainly around maps which I love. Ordinance Survey Explorer paper maps kickstarted my love of the outdoors. In Cubs I learned map reading. In Geography I learned mapping countours and detail. Aged 15 I learned route planning as my friends and I and cycled Scotland’s Youth Hostels. So now I start with a map and write notes on it before I go and update with what I found. “Great rock formations”, “Sea stacks”, “Great hot chocolate” all make for useful information. And i will return to these islands.

    Tarbert Stores, Harris

     

    Seaweed

     

    Leaving Tarbert

     

    “Coat of Arms” beach

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  • Outer Hebrides hot-pot

    This is an Outer Hebrides hot-pot of frames uncategorised and unpublished. A mixture of photographs from Harris and Lewis that caught an emotion and eye.

    Luskentyre beach waves

     

    Machair on Luskentyre

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  • Road to Hushinish

    Road? It’s really a 12 mile single track “B” grade metalled or tarred road to an alcove of unspoilt Harris beauty. Hushinish the most westerly point on Harris and Lewis emits a contented solitude that envelops. Your worries calm, soaking in a landscape as devils fall from the shoulder. Inhale and rejuvenate over and over. The back is straight. Head rises as eyes blink clear, lungs fill then walk anew. Carrying no burden. Becoming a sprite upon the beach.

    Road to Hushinish
    Road to Hushinish

     

    Huisinish twilight
    Twilight peace

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  • Isle of Harris

    Isle of Harris Scotland has the oldest rocks in Europe, some over 3,000m years ago which is around two-thirds as old as the Earth itself. Lewisian Gneiss is the most common and was formed from volcanism and bending and stretching of the Earths crust then exposed by glaciers, oceans and weather. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey used Harris as a backdrop for Jupiter. Yup, outta this world!

    Peat cutting on Isle of Harris
    Peat cutting on Isle of Harris

     

    Drying peat for winter burning in homes.
    Drying peat for winter burning in homes.

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  • Blade, Rock and Bows

    This is a random collection of  blade, rock and bows photographed on Harris.

    View towards The Minch from a wind turbine blade

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  • Eilean Glas Lighthouse on Scalpay

    Eilean Glas Lighthouse on the island of Scalpay is a gem. Tower of red and white gloss painted brickwork surrounded by dishevelled outbuildings and a huge rusty fog horn. It lies north west of the northern most top of Skye protecting shipping from the turbulent Minch waters.

    Fog horn and Eilean Glas Lighthouse

     

    Eilean Glas with Skye in background

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