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The Outer Hebrides - also known as the Western Isles - stretch for 130 miles and look out on their western side to the Atlantic Ocean.
Here on the edge of Europe is a striking mix of landscapes from windswept golden sands to harsh, heather-backed mountains and peat bogs. An elemental beauty pervades each of the more than two hundred islands that make up the archipelago, only a handful of which are actually inhabited.
Lewis and Harris form the northernmost island in the Hebrides. Though actually part of the same land mass, they are thought of as different islands and each has its own distinctive culture, traditions and heritage. Lewis in the north is the largest island in the group and its main town of Stornoway is a busy centre of island life, its natural harbour a thriving fishing port.
Harris is home to the world-famous Harris Tweed, which has to be made on these islands if it carries the name. Across a narrow isthmus from the more mountainous North Harris lies South Harris, presenting some of the finest scenery in Scotland, with wide beaches of golden sand trimming the Atlantic in full view of the mountains and a rough boulder-strewn interior lying to the east.
Further south still sit a string of tiny, flatter islands including North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Barra. Here breezy beaches whose fine sands front a narrow band of boggy farmland are mostly bordered by a lower range of hills to the east. Uniquely, one of the beaches on Barra also doubles as a landing strip for the scheduled flights from the mainland!
The Hebrides remain the heartland of Gaelic culture, with the language spoken by the vast majority of islanders, though its everyday usage remains under constant threat from the national dominance of English. Its survival is, in no small part, due to the influence of the Free Church and its offshoots, whose strict Calvinism is the creed of the vast majority of the population, with the sparsely populated South Uist, Barra and parts of Benbecula adhering to the more relaxed demands of Catholicism.
The natural environment of the Hebrides make it ideal for walking and cycling of all standards while the superb Atlantic beaches draw surfers from around the globe. Fishing for salmon and trout, as well as sea angling, is also highly popular and of the highest quality. The clear, pollution-free Hebridean waters, also produce some of the best seafood in the UK.
Lying offshore into the Atlantic, the remarkable deserted Island of St Kilda, a World Heritage Site, is a major attraction which can only be reached by day boat or live-aboard cruise vessel, subject to weather conditions and the permission of its owners, the National Trust for Scotland.
Well worth a look in Lightbox
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Ā© Jim Roberts JR's Gallery
August 7, 2016
Sun setting behind the dunes at Nauset Outer Beach.
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2016
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Shoes : ***Ambrosia***Lacy pumps with socks[gray] (@The Chapter Four)
Dress : ***Ambrosia***Mesh_Frilly Prom Dress[black]
Location : - å¤č -The Outer Garden
Ā© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I saw this girl engrossed in her mobile phone and noticed the two rings around her eyes showing some degree of tiredness - it just totally fit with the 'inner circle/outer circle' sign for the subway. I triggered the shutter just as she looked up from her phone at close range, enjoy full screen detail by pressing 'L' or clicking the image.
The big bad guy of Cthulhu Mythos. There are actually multiple Outer Gods, but I couldn't decide which to build so I made my own. Also really happy to finally get to use the clock ring piece.
Built for Bio-Cup 2022 Round 1: Kaiju
Subtheme: Cosmic Horror
The brightness of the total eclipse varies over 5 orders of magnitude, from bright, hot pink solar prominences to the outer corona. This is a 1-second exposure designed for the latter, but you can still see the former at the bottom edge.
We reserved a room in Plattsburgh, NY about a year ago (Vermont was already fully booked, but Plattsburgh had plenty of rooms and no bump in prices yet). The morning of the eclipse dawned clear, but clouds were predicted to gather by afternoon, so we chased blue skies about 3 hours northeast to the southern outskirts of Sherbrooke, QC and had perfect weather. (Fortunately, I had insisted to my husband that we bring passports.) The Canadian customs website said there was a 40-minute wait at the entry station on the freeway, so we nipped over to the side road a few miles east and had the port of entry all to ourselves.
The total eclipse was ā¦ hard to describe, but all itās cracked up to be ā a striking spectacle. The inner corona was much brighter than I expected, blazing to the naked eye in sharp contrast to the suddenly black sun within.
Explore Takeover "Light and Shadow", October 2025.
Excerpt from miyajima.or.jp/english/spot/spot_other.html:
Designated as a National Important Cultural Property on August 29, 1910
Hokoku Shrine is dedicated to the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (one of the three unifiers of Japan in the 16th century) and his loyal aid Kato Kiyomasa. The reason for building this structure is clearly stated in a letter by Ankokuji Ekei, head monk of Ankokuji Temple. In 1587, Ekei asked Daiganji Temple, the temple in charge of construction and repair work in Miyajima including Itsukushima Shrine, to build a Buddhist library in which the chanting of Senbu-kyo sutras could be held every month. As there is no board ceiling or outer gate, it is believed that the construction of the building was not completed.
Originally, Amida Buddha and two subordinate Buddhist saints, Anan and Kasho-sonja, were enshrined in the Buddhist altar until the early Meiji era. Since that time, however, the altar has been used in Shinto rituals.
The building is called Senjokaku (Hall of One Thousand Tatami Mats), reflecting its standing as the largest structure on Miyajima Island. The shrine was a popular landmark in Miyajima where many people came to relax and cool themselves and to buy popular souvenirs such as tooth picks, and a variety of legends and traditions have been created here.
The fact that this structure, unique among the buildings belonging to Itsukushima Shrine, is unpainted and that its exact date of founding is recorded makes it a valuable gauge of the passage of time. The traces of weathering on its pillars and floor boards can be used to determine the approximate age of any other wooden structure on Miyajima.
A piece of wood used as a measuring device in the reconstruction work of the O-Torii in 1873 hangs on a pillar under the floor of the south part of the shrine. Countless votive picture tablets that had been hanging on the walls of Itsukushima Shrine buildings until the mid Meiji era decorate the walls inside the hall.
The shrine did not yet exist at the time of the Battle of Itsukushima in 1555 when the Mori clan defeated the Sue clan to unify the Chugoku region. The headquarters of the Sue clan was located on this hill, which was then called To-no-oka (Pagoda Hill). Starting in the Meiji era, the hill was developed through the establishment of stone steps, among other additions.
Excerpt from www.japan-experience.com/all-about-japan/miyajima/temples...:
Its bare appearance may not intrigue you at first. Only unfinished walls and a hundred pillars. Although the building is pretty, there is something missing. But once inside, look up: the gigantic ceiling is covered with a mosaic of paintings whose subjects are as varied as the styles and periods of implementation. Medieval battles, Buddhist representations, landscapes and animals in a modern style, the eye does not know where to turn.
Space Engine 0.9.8.0
- Built-in tools
- Hotsampling via SRWE @12MP
- From 3000x4000 to 1200x1600 with Lanczos 3 (one step)
- ReShade 1.1.0.962
Mutch less banding here.
A scene taken near the Crow Head Lighthouse looking southeasterly toward the Twillingate Harbour area.
Built for the Space Jam Microscale City Category.
Not much to say about this build. Have wanted to do something in these colors in Microscale for a while now, just finally getting around to it. Original inspiration for such would be Mark E (www.flickr.com/photos/mark-of-falworth/page2).
Water was fun to build but annoying to photograph.
enjoy :)
The uMhlanga lighthouse was completed in 1954. Construction was completed in four days and 19 hours. The circular concrete tower, painted white with a red band at the top, stands 21 metres above the beach and has a focal plane height of 25 metres. The fixed red light enables ships waiting to anchor in the outer anchorage, to monitor their position. If the red light is undetectable, the ship's anchors have probably dragged and are too close to shore. The lighthouse has never had an official ākeeperā. The Oyster Box Hotel, which was built in 1869, has been the towerās custodian. The construction of the lighthouse cost R23 838. There are 95 steps to the top of the uMhlanga Lighthouse.
Taken from; Jericho Beach Park,
West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
TS Dubai, container ship,
length overall (LOA) is 272 meters and her width is 43 meters.
built in 2024
CL Rizhao, bulk carrier,
length overall (LOA) is 229 meters and her width is 32.3 meters.
built in 2015
This is a composite of three exposures containing lightning strikes merged together as layers using the Lighten Blend Mode in Paint Shop Pro X4. The three exposures were at f/10 using my Canon 17-40mm f/4L and each exposure being 1 second long. I used a Singh-Ray VND filter and hand held a 2 stop Singh Ray GND Filter. Using my wired remote shutter control I locked it so that it kept taking shots taking note of the exposures that captured lightning strikes as they were quite frequent. The morning I took this, I ventured out at 5:30am from the Ramada at Nags Head down to a fishing pier hoping to capture some good sunrise photos but instead was treated to a thunderstorm up north heading out to sea. A beach chair left out on the sand next to the pier behind me made a great foreground for this shot.
Batwing butterfly is the new butterfly at our exhibit. Very beautiful.
Description
Wingspan - 88 to 136mm.
Male : Tailless. Above, the butterfly is bluish-black and unmarked.
It has a scent patch in a rounded black-brown dorsal fold. When the fold is opened, the white lower half of the scent patch can be seen.
The abdomen has white stripes. The head of the butterfly is rose-coloured.
Female : Tailless. Above, the butterfly is grey-brown. It has dark stripes in between the veins. It has a large pale patch below vein 2 on the upper forewing.
Male upperside rich velvety blue-black. Fore wing: outwardly towards the terminal margin and the whole of the hind wing except the dorsal area have in certain lights a rich dark purple bloom, in others a very dark green; dorsal area and the whole inner side of the sexual fold opaque brownish black; outer half of fore wing with pale adnervular streaks more or less prominent. Underside similar; fore wing with the adnervular pale streaks broader, more prominent, extended further inwards well up to the terminal margin. Hind wing: ground-colour more uniform blue-black than on the upperside. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; the head in front, on the sides and beneath, the sides of the thorax and of the abdomen rich crimson ; beneath, the thorax and abdomen black, the latter with lateral black spots in addition on its crimson sides.
Female. Upperside dull black. Fore wing with the pale greyish-green streaks very broad and prominent, especially in interspaces 1 and 2, the streaks extend also into the cell. Hind wing more uniform, with a dark dull blue, in some lights dark green, bloom. Underside similar, the streaks on the fore wing broader and paler; hind wing as on the upperside, more uniform, duller, opaque. Antennae and thorax black, abdomen dull brownish black, head crimson; beneath as in the male, but the crimson less bright, especially on the sides of the abdomen and without the lateral spots on the latter.
In Sikkim, according to Elwes and de Niceville, it occurs from quite low elevations in the Terai up to 7000 feet. Its almost uniform dark colour renders it inconspicuous in the jungle, and it is therefore difficult to account for its being further protected by a disagreeable smell and probably taste. Wood-Mason has recorded that the females have a strong and disgustingly rank musky odour.[1]
Aurizon locos CLP8/CLP14/CLF5 with 4176S grain from Snowtown, unloading at the Bunge facility (yet to be re-branded) at Outer Harbor, South Australia, not long after sunset on Sunday 28 December 2025.
DJI_0762_2
We recently returned from a trip on the east coast. We traveled from Savannah to Washington DC.
Lots of commitments and activities at home. Haven't been on Flickr at all lately. I will be by to check out your photos soon.
Shields Road station on the Glasgow Subway is located on the South Side of the River Clyde and hosts the largest Park and Ride facility on the Glasgow Subway system with around 800 parking spaces. The station typically floats around 500,000 entries/exits per year, though you wouldn't think so given the platform isn't too much wider than the door at the end of the platform.
Despite the name, the entrances to the station and car park are actually on Scotland Street and I believe there have been proposals to rename the station. It's at the top of Shields Road though, so there is some degree of sense in the name.
Car 119 is pictured leading Train 5 on the outer Circle into Shields Road. This train runs clockwise around the 10.5km circle.