#hebridies

[scotianostra]

Talisker Bay by Bill Bridge Via Flickr: A well photographed location on the Scottish Isle of Skye. Not quite near the famous Talisker Whisky distillery, the bay can be accessed after a short walk along an old land rover track, leading to Talisker House. I tried to capture the motion of the waves and the reflective nature of the boulders on the shoreline, and I managed to do that to my own level of satisfaction.

[scotianostra]

Good Morning from Scotland

Minutes before sunrise at Callanish by Chris Newham Via Flickr: For more information see www.callanishvisitorcentre.co.uk/ Visit loveoflandscape.com for more photos, video.loveoflandscape .com for videos or follow me on facebook www.facebook.com/chrisnewhamphoto

[artshed18]

Shoebox image...Hebridean rock surface...the marks that can’t be made #hebridies #rock (at Aberdeen)

[tobyneal]

West Beach, Berneray (Beàrnaraigh na Hearadh)

[damianshields]

'Mercury's garden'

Sgùrr nan Gillean and Loch na Creitheach from Camasunary, Isle of Skye

Personally my most satisfying shot from my all-too-brief visit to Skye for 3 nights last week. I parked myself on the brow of the hill overlooking this scene and just waited, and waited, the quality of light in Skye is exceptional and its mesmerising to watch the way it plays across the landscape. 

www.damianshields.com

[photoplymouth-blog]

Off we go again...

The start of a new academic year, as always full of enthusiasm for the year ahead, our first staff meeting starts in a few minutes, who has been up to what should be the first item on the agenda.

My summer began sailing through the Inner and Outer Hebredies on a tall ship, with a group of artists and scientists thinking about and talking about Climate Change. Called 'What has to be done' and organised by Chris Wainwright, it was one of the richest experiences of my life. A story of the trip will appear elsewhere but as a taster here is a picture of just one of the many islands we sailed past.

For photographers it was taken with my first serious digital camera, a Sigma Merrill DP2. A bizarre machine with some quite outstanding innovations but otherwise awkward to use.

So a first post for me after a long gap, and the beginning of a year of blogging from us all in photography here at Plymouth University.