Tag: Isle of Skye

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Lens-Artists

Black and White

This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Black and White prompt.

Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge: Decayed or Rusty

An abandoned crofters cottage at Elgol on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Easter 1980.

Monochrome Monday: 22nd March 2021

Intentional camera movement of trees in snow on the South Bruce Peninsula last winter.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: A River Runs Through It

The Houses of Parliament in London, England from the South Bank of the River Thames. In the very early 1980s I was one of the field testers for a new type of black and white film, Ilford XP1.

Monochrome Monday: 28th December 2020

The Government Dock in the village of Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula at sunrise last autumn.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Light and Dark

Team Bike entering the start/finish straight shortly before midnight during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in April 1982.

Lens-Artists: My Photographic Journey

Trees on snow covered farmland in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England. One of my earliest photos dating back to the mid 1970s.

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CFFC

Rusty

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rusty or Decayed prompt.

I thought of two very different photos taken many years apart.

Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge: Decayed or Rusty

A rusty tin roof on an abandoned crofters cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Summer Vacation 2020

A rusty license plate being used to reinforce a splitting railroad tie being used as a fence post near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Cosmic Photo Challenge

Against the Wind

This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Against the Wind prompt.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Against the Wind

A windswept monochrome landscape on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Morning

Wind driven waves crashing over rocks on the Lake Huron shoreline at sunrise.

Clouds moving over Colpoy's Bay at dawn.

Wind driven clouds moving across Colpoy’s Bay at dawn.

A Saturday Bird: A Ring-billed Gull on Patrol

A Ring-billed Gull patrolling the Lake Huron shoreline against the wind.

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Photo Challenges

Abandoned

This is my contribution to Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Abandoned prompt.

Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge: Decayed or Rusty

An abandoned crofters cottage on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Abandoned

A local eyesore, the abandoned grocery store in the town of Wiarton on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Abandoned

The ruins of Beeston Castle, Cheshire. Abandoned during the English Civil War after being partially demolished to prevent its further use.

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Weekly Topics

Crofters Cottage Museum

This week Travel Tuesday is traveling back to the Isle of Skye at Easter in 1980.

This is an old, thatched crofters cottage that had been turned into a museum of crofting. It has since been expanded with more buildings and is now known as the Skye Museum of Island Life.

Travel Tuesday: Old Crofters Cottage Museum
Crofters Cottage Museum on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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Weekly Topics

The Quiraing

Travel Tuesday is traveling back to Easter of 1980 when a small group of photography students traveled to the Isle of Skye instead of revising for final exams.

This is a section of the Quiraing a landslip on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The name Quiraing comes from Old Norse and means Round Fold.

 

Travel Tuesday: The Quiraing

 

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Monochrome Monday

Volcanic Skye landscape

Monochrome Monday travels back 40 years to Easter on the Isle of Skye in 1980 as I continue the exploration of my black and white negatives.

I have forgotten the name of this location, if I recall correctly it’s on the east coast of the island south of Staffin. There are lots of volcanic locations on Skye but a Google search didn’t come up with a name for this one.

 

Monochrome Monday: 25th May 2020