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Well - not sure what species of blue it really is, but probably a Common Blue male. Happy to be corrected. Taken on Orkney's Mainland coastal cliff path at the extreme southern tip of the island. There is a scarce species of blue on Orkney which feeds on vetch, but I don't think this is it.
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness. The ring of stones stands on a small isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray.
This is part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney UNESCO World Heritage Site
Orkney Transport Scania L94 Wright Solar Fusion SJ51 LPA on Cruise shuttles in Kirkwall this afternoon, 3rd July, 2025. It was new to Doigs of Glasgow.
Ex London General Mercedes Benz Citaro bendybus MAL95 (BD57 WCY) on Orkney Transport's cruise shuttle in Kirkwall, 8th July, 2025.
Ronny Brown, 56, marks freshly sold cows with colour-coded stamps to denote their buyers and their desintations at the Orkney Auction Mart on the Hatston Industrial Estate near Kirkwall, Monday, March 5, 2018. There are four times as many cows as people on the Orkney Islands, but the island's only abattoir closed in January 2018 which means cows from Orkney cows get shipped 10 hours on a boat to Aberdeen and then trucked inland to Dingwall, where they are slaughtered. The journey from farm to fork is 450 miles, just to end up in a butchers shop a few miles from the farms where they were born and reared. Around 17,000 cows are shipped from Orkney to the mainland each year. Most are store cattle, bound for other farms to fatten up.
Orkney Transport MAN 18.360 MarcoPolo Viaggio 350 PO54 NAA at their Stromness depot 7th July, 2025. It was new to Holmeswood and retains Bradshaws, Walkden, colours some eleven years after arrival on Orkney.
Just been away for a long weekend on orkney and I have about 800 shots from a great weekend.
Sunset over the Pentland Firth North Scotland.
These few shots are just the first of many from my Orkney shoot that I will post up over the coming weeks.
Ty for stopping by and I hope that you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy capturing them.
ADC.
Pencil on A5 watercolour paper in situ - ink, wash and chinagraph pencil added later
A sketching/cycling journey through Shetland & Orkney...
- An excellent guided tour (led by Gerry) of the truly marvellous Maeshowe:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeshowe
The strict "No filming or photography" rule still allows for sketching -
so I set to for a pencil sketch from a squatting position...
Northwards Orkney delivering roof trusses, which have came up on the freight ferry from Aberdeen to a building site at Daisybank Kirkwall now the Scottish government has allowed building works to resume in phase 1 of easing of lockdown because of the Covid-19 virus.
The Italian Chapel, built by Italian POW´s during the second world war. Close to the Churchill Barriers.
Yesnaby is an area in Sandwick, on the west coast of Orkney Mainland, Scotland, south of Skara Brae. It is renowned for its spectacular Old Red Sandstone coastal cliff scenery which includes sea stacks, blowholes, geos and frequently boiling seas. The coastal cliffs are formed from the Lower Devonian sandstones ascribed to the Yesnaby Sandstone Group - a set of geological formations restricted to the Yesnaby area, and to the overlying beds of the Lower Stromness Flagstones.