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Forgotten land - Looking across the truly remarkable and world class landscape of the Trotternish Ridge towards Cleat from the Quiraing, with the distressed lone rowan tree showing off its summer greens in the shifting sunlight.
Just back from another wonderful break on the West Coast of Scotland on Skye.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
In the rain, on a rocky shore, with a Kelp backdrop. Taken on the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
Iona is a small island off the southwest coast of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. It is best known for its Abbey, which was established by St Columba in 563. It is one of the oldest Christian religious sites in Europe and is home to the Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian order.
This photograph is of what looks like a church or chapel that has been converted into a dwelling.
The Quiraing tree - Looking across the unique and truly spectacular landscape of the Trotternish Ridge towards Cleat from the Quiraing, with the distressed lone rowan tree showing off its summer greens in the shifting sunlight.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Fingal’s Cave is a sea cave located on the uninhabited island of Staffa in Scotland. It is famous for its distinctive hexagonal basalt columns, which were formed by volcanic activity around 60 million years ago. The cave is named after the legendary Irish warrior Fionn MacCumhail (Finn McCool), who was said to have built the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Fingal’s Cave has inspired many artists and writers over the years, including the composer Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote an overture inspired by the cave’s acoustics. Visitors can reach Staffa by boat from the nearby Isle of Mull and explore the cave on foot, listening to the sound of the waves echoing off the cave walls.
Neist Point Lighthouse, designed by David Alan Stevenson, was first lit on 1 November 1909. An aerial cableway is used to take supplies to the lighthouse and cottages. Since 1990, the lighthouse has been operated remotely from the Northern Lighthouse Board headquarters in Edinburgh. A beautiful place which is a must for a Sunset which we were lucky to have witnessed.
He lived in a house , a fairly big house in the country. This is the home of the late George MacLeod who was the founding member of the Iona Community in 1938.
The front of the building was in shadow but there was light everywhere else. Housing some paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is the art gallery and pottery of Iona.
The summer Quiraing - Looking across the infinite green landscape of the Trotternish Ridge towards Cleat from the Quiraing, verdant and resplendent in summer.
The distressed lone rowan tree hangs on, showing off its summer coat in the shifting sunlight against the backdrop of this unique and truly spectacular landscape.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
This is a picture of the Old Man of Storr overlooking the sound of Raasay, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The walk up the hill was a challenge for an unfit person like me; but worth it all the same.
Talisker Bay sunset - The rock strewn beach of Talisker Bay at sunset on a rising high tide covering the iconic marbled sand for which it is famed for. A dramatic end to the day as the sun dips across the Minch towards the Outer Hebrides.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Derelict - The derelict Cill Chriosd or Christ's Church near Torrin on the road between Broadford and Elgol. Stacks of history and mystery in the church and adjoining graveyard. This 15th-16th century church was abandoned in 1840 when the church in nearby Broadford was erected.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Salen no more - The abandoned fishing trawlers at Salen on the Isle of Mull will be sailing no more.
A Hebridean tradition, boats are often left to decay on the shoreline where they come to rest at the end of their working lives. These is a melancholy beauty to these wrecks as they mark the passage of time, slowly rotting, crumbling to an ever perilous state of decay; hinting at an existence and former island life that once was.
Three attempts over three years it’s taken me to capture a mood befitting of these elegant wrecks.
Salen, Isle of Mull, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Maiden Island is a small uninhabited island to north of the mouth of Oban Bay. The red and white body of Kerrera Lighthouse, which marks the end of Oban Bay, can just be seen on the waterline of the Isle of Kerrera (left hand side of the image).
This panorama was created from photographs taken at the Oban end of Greenacre Bay.
A fairy fantasy - The magical fairy pools descending Coire na Creiche with the Black Cuillin living up to its name and looking dark and ominous as ever. The distinctive pyramidal pinnacle of Sgurr an Fheadain presides centre stage over this enchanted, almost fantasy, landscape.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Have a great weekend everyone; certainly looks like a good one here in the UK.
Many thanks to my Flickr Friends for all your recent kind comments - always appreciated, thank you.
Beached - Long forgotten and abandoned fishing boats beached on Mull. A Hebridean tradition, boats are often left to decay on the shoreline where they come to rest at the end of their working lives.
Salen, Isle of Mull, Scottish Inner Hebrides
With catch, taken on board Mull Charters, Lady Jane, on a dull day.
Not as sharp as I would have liked, taken wide open at F4, with Nikon 300mm F2.8 + 1.4 TC.
The Old Man of Storr rock-stack, located toward the north of the Isle of Skye, with Loch Leathan seen just beneath. We had wanted to get some closer shots too, but the rather forbidding cloud cover seen here, did as might be expected and shed enough torrential rain so as to completely obscure the Old Man when we got to the start of the trail that may have provided a closer view. A good excuse to revisit in the next year or two with luck.
Staffa is an island in the Inner Hebrides which lies about 10 km west of Mull and is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland. It is an important breeding ground for fulmars, common shags and puffins, and has been designated as a national nature reserve and a site of special scientific interest.
The island is entirely volcanic and consists largely of hexagonal basalt columns similar to those found at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. The island is best known for these columns, and the sea cave known as 'Fingal's Cave', made famous by Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
This photograph shows some of these famous basalt columns; it was taken close to the island's only safe landing place and the entrance to Fingal's Cave.
Marking time - The abandoned fishing trawlers at Salen on the Isle of Mull under a moody, dark and brooding sky.
There is a melancholy beauty to these wrecks as they mark the passage of time, slowly rotting, crumbling to an ever perilous state of decay; hinting at an existence and former island life that once was.
A Hebridean tradition, boats are often left to decay on the shoreline where they come to rest at the end of their working lives.
Salen, Isle of Mull, Scottish Inner Hebrides