Photography mostly.

Tag: outer hebrides

  • 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…

  • 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    This is an Outer Hebrides hot-pot of frames uncategorised and unpublished.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.  

  • Uig – Isle of Lewis

    This is a curiosity. Gallan Head or Aird Uig Isle of Lewis was transformed from peat-bog into a defence listening post in 1950’s.  The Royal Air Force built RADAR towers used to eavesdrop shipping which continued through the Cold War under NATO ownership. Finally it was sold and is now owned by the Gallan Head…

  • Lewis beach – Bosta

    This Lewis beach, Bosta, is not only a lovely white beach on Great Bernera. It was also a farmed area in Iron Age / Pictish times with settlements. A reconstruction of an Iron Age house opens on warmer months.  

  • Callanish Standing Stones

    Four thousand years ago a Neolithic conversation in Callanish went as thus: “Why don’t we stand huge fekin’ boulders on top of this hill?” “They weigh five heffers each! Why?” “Lets do it on the longest….no shortest day.” “Eh Why?” “Lets put them into the same pattern as the lights in the night sky, as…

  • Isle of Lewis Beaches – Mealasta & Mangersta

    Storm passes on the Isle of Lewis beaches Mealasta and Mangersta. It’s a wild coastline exposed to Altlantic ocean and storms, yet still the sun shone. I was lucky to experience changing weather systems as beach transitioned from sunshine to rain/sleet/storm/sunset.