Undiscovered Scotland

#BlueSkyMonday on the Isle Of Skye, Scotland. This is the Portree Harbor.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #Scotland #IsleOfSkye

VJ Day: Details of local commemorative services announced across the north-east for 80th anniversary Thousands of Scottish soldiers were involved in the war in the Far East and many Gordon Highlanders never came home.

Commemorative services are being held across Scotland and beyond on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day. So many members of the "Forgotten Army" died to protect democracy. I wonder what they would make of the messed-up world we live in today!

www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6818...

Gorgeous young buck in The Wildwood.

The Isle of Raasay ferry, MV Hallaig. The image shows a broad concrete slipway at the foot of the frame with a white and black ferry berthed end on to the camera with its bow door down and a black Land Rover driving off. There is sea in the background and then a hillside covered in brown bracken. The sky is blue.

There's something especially romantic about an island you can only reach from another island rather than from the Scottish mainland. This is the Isle of Raasay ferry, MV Hallaig, unloading at Sconser on the Isle of Skye. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Ferry #Sconser #Skye

🎶 See Clamour of Rooks LIVE this Saturday the 16th of August, between c. 1:30pm and 3:00pm!

#Music #Glasgow #Busking

Happiness is, adding to my collection of old Glasgow etchings, by snapping up this Harold Storey of the Broomielaw from ebay

Better still, the seller couldn't read the title, and listed it as 'Broomiel Lane', meaning many other collectors overlooked it.

Person holding up a drone at a rural location by the water

"Important archaeological evidence is being washed away by storms and high tides before we can learn from it – and the problem is going to get worse" 🌊

Find out how drones can help as sites of all periods are being lost to the waves around Scotland's coast: www.digitscotland.com/how-drones-a...

This modern image shows some of the surviving buildings at the long disused RAF Wigtown in Galloway. The gable end of a large concrete building occupies the upper left of the frame, with a second building appearing to its right. This has large, blocked vehicle doorways on the side facing us. In the foreground is a concrete road from the bottom left of the frame to the middle right, with grass and fence posts to its lower right. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. The Harbour Inn in Garlieston was known as the Galloway Arms Hotel in 1943 and appears in the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...

This font used on the gateposts of the former Haghill Public School in the East End of Glasgow is just superb.

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#glasgow #oldschool #glasgowschools #font #architecture #glasgowbuildings #haghill #architecturephotography

#OnThisDay 1919 Scots-born US industrialist & philanthropist Andrew Carnegie died. 2509 Carnegie-funded libraries were built. Dunblane Public Library (Dunblane Institute) opened 1907, funded by the Dunblane Reading Room & Amusement Association which rejected generous offer from Andrew Carnegie…/👇

The Hugh MacDiarmid memorial. The image shows a brown bracken hillside. Dominating the picture is a large rust-coloured memorial shaped like an open book facing off to the right. It is decorated with cutouts and patterns. The sky is largely blue.

133 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland

Drones to scatter seeds over wildfire damaged land in Lochaber A nature restoration group is to target its Seeds from the Sky project at areas of a Lochaber estate.

BBC News - Drones to scatter seeds over wildfire damaged land
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Firefighters tackle large blaze on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh The blaze was seen spreading rapidly across the hill in the city's Holyrood Park.

BBC News - Firefighters tackle large blaze on Arthur's Seat
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fire at Arthur's Seat
#photography #edinburgh #wildfire

Helmsdale. The image shows a river in the foreground cutting across the frame, beyond a gorse-covered embankment. On the far side of the river, which is very dark in colour, is a village stretching across the centre of the frame, with open areas nearer the river and the buildings further away. Beyond the village is a hill covered in yellow gorse. The scene is in sunlight.

Worth turning off the A9 to explore in more detail: Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland, seen across the River Helmsdale. The village's origins date back at least as far as the Vikings, who established a settlement here. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Sutherland

A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.

Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

I don't know what the collective term for Kayaks is, but 64 of them have just turned up. I assume there will soon be 64 people following.

Tollcross Winter Gardens in the east end of Glasgow. It was built in the 1850s, but fell into disrepair after being damaged in a storm 2011. It was restored to its former glory in the early 2020s.

#glasgow #tollcross #wintergardens #tollcrosspark #architecture #architecturephotography

This modern image shows part of Cairnryan in Galloway. A road crosses the frame from the bottom left corner to the lower right. On its near side is a grassy area that fills the bottom right of the frame. On the far side of the road is a line of houses and cottages mainly finished in white, with some houses on a higher level at the near end. Behind the buildings is a wooded hillside. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Cairnryan in Galloway has an important part to play as the search for a spy builds towards its dramatic conclusion.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

Woods lit by sunshine either side of a narrow shallow grassy valley with dark hills in the distance under a cloudy sky.

Tall golden grasses lit by the sun.

Sunny and very windy in Strathspey today, the mountains shrouded in dark clouds, trees shining in the sunshine, beautiful grasses waving in the wind. #cairngorms

There’s truly nothing cooler than seeing your listing for one of the largest festivals on the planet 🌍✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎉 If you like Scottish folksongs, stories and ballads, this Edinburgh Fringe show is for you! ✨

📍Venue 138
📅 21 + 22
⏰ 19:30
Tickets 🎟️ bit.ly/ionafringe

#edfringe #scotslanguage

A week on from the end of my adventure and I’m feeling really good! I’ve relaxed this week, catching up with the life of loving companionship and homeliness. It’s wonderful.

Castle Tioram. The image shows the irregularly shaped curtain wall of a stone castle standing on top of a tidal island with a shoreline in the foreground. A person is standing in the bottom right of the frame. The wall heads of interior buildings can be seen projecting above the top of the curtain wall. In the background is a hillside covered in conifer trees. The light is subdued.

Castle Tioram, on the tidal island of Eilean Tioram near the point at which the River Shiel flows into Loch Moidart. This unique and uniquely important building has origins dating back to the 1200s but faces an uncertain future. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #CastleTioram

Today was spent watching jousting at Fort George. A fantastic day out. There was also Romans, Iron Age people, Jacobites, WWII vehicles, exhibitions demonstrations and fun for all the family. But the jousting was the best. A huge well done to all involved.

Close up of a thistle on a black background

Thistles make me homesick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
This is one of my fave pics I’ve ever taken 🥰
#BlueSkyArtShow #Jagged #SensoryArt #Emotion #Scotland

Loch Lomond, Trossachs #Scotland #Trossachs
#LochLomond www.damianshields.com

The view east towards the island of Ornsay and its lighthouse. The image shows a gravel slipway leading down into a still sea, with grassy banks on both sides and part of a tree on the right. In the middle distance is part of an island with trees and, just visible, a lighthouse. In the background beyond more sea is a mountainous landscape. The scene is in sunlight.

The view east towards the island of Ornsay and its lighthouse, with the mainland of Scotland in the background, from the pretty village of Isleornsay on the Isle of Skye's Sleat peninsula. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
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#Scotland #Osleornsay #Skye #IsleOfSkye #SleatPeninsula

Brodick Highland Games!

Tenement chimneys and gables on Gardner Street in the Partick area of Glasgow, one of the city's steepest streets.

#glasgow #chimneys #architecture #gables #architecturephotography #tenenent #glasgowtenements #gardnerstreet #partick

The back of the Thistle Street Bar, Thistle Street North West Lane, Edinburgh.