Photography…mostly.

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    This is an Outer Hebrides hot-pot of frames uncategorised and unpublished.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

    Isles of Bearasaigh and Seanna Chnoc

     

    Dislodged Seaweed Root

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  • 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.

    Stormy Mangersta beach
    Rain frozen in frame with sun on a Stormy Mangersta beach

     

    Blue and yellow
    Blue and yellow

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  • Uig on the Isle of Lewis

    My base in Rheinigidale worked well on Harris, now its time to explore Lewis. I shacked-up in the Otter Bunkhouse in Uig which was clean, bright with nice views. Lewis is much larger with a huge coastline by comparison so no weather  would stop my journey.

    Loch Miabhaig, Lewis
    Loch Miabhaig, Lewis

     

    Olympic pool or Loch Miabhaig ?
    Olympic pool or Loch Miabhaig ?

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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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