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Duffus is a village in Moray, Scotland.
The Duffus Village Inn, the local shop, Post Office and Duffus Village Hall provide a focal point for the community. Nearby are the remains of Duffus Castle, St. Peters' Kirk, and Spynie Palace.
Duffus Castle: www.flickr.com/photos/hopemanfoto/albums/72157712146815576
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
A colourful post-sunset sky captured over Derwentwater, in the English Lakes, from the sheltered shorelines of Brandlehow Bay. Thanks for viewing.
My Best Andromeda photo yet!
How I took this: bit.ly/andromedaphoto
The jaw-dropping Andromeda Galaxy, captured using a small refractor and a DSLR (mirrorless) camera.
This image includes exactly 3 hours of exposure time using the Radian 61 under dark skies.
Captured October 2020
60 x 3-minutes at ISO 1600
Canon EOS Ra + Radian 61 APO
Bortle Class 4 Skies
Da var nordlyssesongen 2015-2016 i gang. Rundt midnatt var jeg ute og sjekket, før jeg gikk i seng, og oppdaget av noen var på gang. Fikk ikke tid til å dra ut og tok bildene fra hustaket mitt. Et flott og klart nordlys som varte en god stund.
The Aurora season 2015-2016 has started. Beautiful and strong Aurora last night. Visible and very clear for a long time over my home community Sjoevegan. This is a promising start on the Aurora season.
The MV Selkie is an efficient, highly manoeuvrable and cost-effective solution to a wide variety of dredging and associated marine projects.
Based at Buckie harbour on the Moray Firth, the vessel ideally suited to service ports and harbours around the UK coastline.
Equipped with a 360° excavator and a range of buckets, MV Selkie is available for one-off dredging projects, contracts and other civil marine works.
Part of my on-going project 'Duffus Castle' through the seasons.
Duffus Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in use from c.1140 to 1705. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland.
At the beginning of the 12th century Moray was ruled by Angus, grandson of Lulach Macgillecomgan, who had succeeded Macbeth as King of Scots in 1057. Angus rebelled in 1130 and King David I began to populate the province with nobles. Among them was Freskin, of Flemish background, who built the great earthwork and timber motte-and-bailey castle in c. 1140.
Freskin’s direct line ended in 1270 and the castle passed into the ownership of Sir Reginald le Chen. With his death in 1345, Duffus passed to his daughter Mariot who was married to Nicholas, son of the 4th Earl of Sutherland. The Sutherlands were also descended from Freskyn and remained in their possession until 1705 when the castle was abandoned.
The ruined Millie Bothy was previously owned by the Scottish Salmon Fisheries and once used for shelter and net storage by the Salmon Fishermen.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
We have a superb view from our house. Every morning is different. Waikare Inlet, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
What started off as a 3 panel mosaic covering The Great Nebula in Orion, The Horsehead, Barnards Loop and M78 soon became a much larger project including over 20 deep space objects and the majority of the Orion Molecular Cloud. The final mosaic image covers 13.5 x 6.8 degrees of our night's sky.
The detail captured in this image is best seen by looking at the 1.99 arcsecond per pixel full resolution 1.8 gigabyte mosaic which can be viewed in full resolution here: tinyurl.com/2mzfvybs
Dominating the night sky from December through March, the ancient constellation Orion is one of the most famous and most photographed star groups in the heavens. The ancient Greeks associated these stars with a mighty hunter adorned with a belt and sword, holding a westward facing shield in his left hand and an upraised club in his right. These stars were even included in the fictional world of J.R.R. Tolkien where they were called Menelva-gor, the “Swordsman of the Sky”.
Captured over 14 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory. Total integration time of 33 hours. Here are the details:
Captured and processed by Nicolas Rolland, Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, PTGui
Post Processed in Photoshop, Pixinsight, Registar
Orion Mosaic
Dates of capture
2022-01-26
2022-01-27
2022-01-28
2022-01-22
2022-01-23
2022-01-29
2022-01-30
Integration
A1 61 x 2 min
A2 65 x 2 min
A3 67 x 2 min
A4 71 x 2 min
A5 60 x 2 min
A6 62 x 2 min
A7 56 x 2 min
A8 60 x 2 min
A9 70 x 2 min
A10 84 x 2 min
A11 73 x 2 min
A12 84 x 2 min
Total 1626 minutes 27.1 hours
M42
Dates of capture
2021-10-29
2021-10-17
2021-11-06
Integration
LUM 45x120
RED 50x120
GREEN 47x120
BLUE 51x120
LUM 28x1
RED 28x1
GREEN 26x1
BLUE 21x1
Total 195 minutes 3.25 hours
IC434
Dates of capture
2020-12-24
2021-01-06
2021-01007
2021-01-09
Integration
LUM 43x120
RED 45x120
GREEN 40x120
BLUE 38x120
Total 166 minutes 2.76 hours
Total 33.1 hours
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Típica foto de las Islas Lofoten. Pero esta es muy especial para mí. Ha pasado justo un año desde que la tomé. Sabiendo que un virus empezaba a atemorizar el mundo. Pero no pensábamos que sería para tanto. Tal vez habríamos valorado más esos momentos, aunque disfruté de cada rincón en el que estuvimos. Espero poder volver algún día no muy tardío.
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The vast oblong shape/stretch of a piste, in the center right, belongs to a ski resort called Hakuba47. Yes, on top of the mountain its ski runs merge into one of the neighbor's, Goryu, seen on the left. Superb snow quality and that well-pressed in Hakuba47. So that's why 47 draws a lot of skiers and boarders from abroad.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
I merged 2 photos for this one :
- one for the foreground, captured at 70mm during the blue hour
- a second for the sky; captured at 16mm later in the night, highter on the road.
حشد هرقل النجمي هو من اكثر العناقيد النجمية سطوعاً في النصف الشمالي للكرة الارضية. يعتقد علماء الفلك ان هذا الحشد يضم اكثر من نصف مليون نجم في منطقة صغيرة ضمن ١٥٠ سنه ضوئية فقط ويبعد عن الارض ٢٤،٠٠٠ سنه ضوئية. Great Hercules Star Cluster (M13) is the brightest star cluster in the northern hemisphere. It consists of 500,000 stars packed in a 150 lights years only. It is about 24,000 light years from us. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD 8 w/0.7 Reducer, iOptron GEM45 guided by Celestron OAG and ZWO 174MM, Optolong L-Pro 2”, ZWO 2600MC @-5. Light subs 39 x 60”, Darks 40, Flat 20, No Bias. Total exposure 39 min from Bortle 4 sky. Captured by APT, PHD2, Sharpcap pro. Stacked by APP & Processed by PI (PHCC, STX, BXT, STF, CS, UM for stars image, For background NXT, STF, SCNR, TGV, ACDNR). Pixel Math both image to produce the final image.
A vast rice field near Nada, Texas, glows in the warm light of golden hour, just before harvest. This stretch of the Texas Rice Belt, in Colorado County, showcases the fertile plains and agricultural rhythm of late summer. The heavy grain bows under a textured sky, capturing the quiet majesty of a working landscape.
Spynie Kirk was moved in 1736, stone by stone, from the site beside Spynie Cemetery where it had been built in the late 12th century to be rebuilt, in a different form, at its present site in New Spynie to the north of the Quarrelwood. One point of interest is that the lintel over the east door was installed upside down, and remains so to this day.
It is a typical old-style country kirk with box pews and a Communion pew – two pews facing inward to a narrow table between. There are two lofts to east and west and the central pulpit on the south wall.
The Large Heath is restricted to wet boggy habitats in northern Britain, Ireland, and a few isolated sites in Wales and central England.
The adults always sit with their wings closed and can fly even in quite dull weather provided the air temperature is higher than 14B:C. The size of the underwing spots varies across its range; a heavily spotted form (davus) is found in lowland England, a virtually spotless race (scotica) in northern Scotland, and a range of intermediate races elsewhere (referred to as polydama).
The butterfly has declined seriously in England and Wales but is still widespread in parts of Ireland and Scotland. This wee chap was found at Duffus Castle in Moray.
Snow-covered ice formations by lake Ontario under a dramatic winter sky, capturing a serene and cold winter scene from nature in all its beauty and contrast.
Cloud iridescence or irisation is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.
It was some kind of mixed up vertigo. He could hardly walk. His entire team had been arrested by the police. He was moments away from being captured. All this happened to Blue because he loved the color of money.
Before all the gazing eyes
Clouds of white dance in the skies
Captured in the distant light
They shine with beauty, naturally bright
Above the trees, silhouetted down below
Through the clouds, the rays do glow
Sending light into the looking eyes
Who gaze at the clouds dancing in the skies
Amazing hoodoos on the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Combination of long exposure (with LENR) on the foreground and stacked frames of the sky. Captured during the March 2019 Milky Way workshop with Action Photo Tours. Venus shines brightly to the left of the Toadstool. The Zeiss 25 f/1.4 is amazing for Milky Way - pin sharp stars and no vignetting to speak of stopped down to 2.8.
This amazing place is just a 20 minute easy hike from the main road between Kanab and Page. The U.S. Southwest is beautiful by day, and at night many parts of it have very dark skies so star-gazing is something special.
Needle Galaxy NGC 4565 is a spiral galaxy with edge on appearance. We can see the central bulge that represents the core and it’s apparently obscured by dust lanes which resemble the Galactic arms. The galaxy is 31 Million light years from us and spread on 100,000 light years that resemble our Milkyway galaxy. Gear setup: Celestron HD11 @ f/7, Celestron HD8 @ f/10, iOptron CEM70G, iOptron GEM45, ZWO-L OAG, Askar M54 OAG, ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO 2600MM @-5, Antlia LRGB V Pro 2” filters. Light subs L 70 x 300sec, R 18 x 300, G 20 x 300, B 20 x 300. Total exposure 10.5 hours. Bortle scale 4 sky. Captured by NINA, Stacked in APP and processed in PI & PS.
I am always astonished by how much detail I can capture under good conditions from the flight deck of an airliner in cruise.
This image shows the splendor of the southern hemisphere sky captured from the flight deck of a Boeing 777-300ER at 35'000 feet over Brazil, during one of my flights to São Paulo in August.
The upper part of the image is dominated by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This irregular barred spiral galaxy was long considered to be gravitationally bound to our Milky Way. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006 (Nitya Kallivayalil et al.), however suggest the LMC may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. Even more recent studies (Marius Cautun et al. 2019) on the other hand, found a much larger dark matter mass than expected. They predict this will eventually reverse the moving direction of the LMC and result in a merger with our Milky Way in 1.5 billion years.
In this image, the LMC is flanked on the left side by Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky and on the right side by the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy, whose gravitational bond to our Milky Way is unclear as well.
On lower left of the sky, you can see the Milky Way in the constellation Carina, with the prominent pink Eta Carinae Nebula, several beautiful open star clusters and some dark nebulae. These dark nebulae extend to the Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud Complex in the lower center of the image.
Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com/featured/southern-splendor-ralf-ro...
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2
Mount: Boeing 777-300ER
Sky:
Stack of 12x 5s @ ISO12800
Foreground:
Single exposure from the sky sequence
Stand in awe of the majestic Oval Forum colonnade, where ancient stone columns rise elegantly towards a vibrant sky, capturing the essence of Jerash's rich history.
Rock Church Sunset Thank you so much for your comments and fav! The location close to Marion NC. The sun was going down and the light and sky captured me. Blessings Folks!
he castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.