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I was planning on a Highland Fling for the Friday dance, but I can't get the full piece within the 60 frames I have for that, so thought they deserved a special lazy Thursday afternoon spot.

They are dancing on the Creag Dhubh viewpoint by Glen Coe.

#sillyScribbles #Scotland #photography #animation

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1y

#SilentSunday
#BloomScrolling

#Argyll #Scotland #Spring

Erinus alpinus (Fairy foxgloves) growing among the stonework of the Clachan Bridge, Seil. The tide in Seil Sound is out.

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1y

#Aurora photos from my husband a couple of hours ago, outside our home in #Dundee, #Scotland. #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #Tayside #Angus #Scotland #Astronomy #Space

A photo of the night sky above a bungalow roof. Vivid green streaks shoot down in the sky, with blue and purple among them.

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1y

A late one last night but here’s a quick taster #Aurora #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

An image of the Aurora Borealis from last night. Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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1y

#silentsunday #scotland

A photo of a sunlit gorge with lush green foliage on both sides and trees above a rock face with ferns and a path leading to a small wooden bridge crossing a small trickling river.

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A sneak preview of my piano improvisation named “The Moor” in my upcoming album Highlands Suite

#pianoimprov #improvpiano #pianosolo #scotland #highlands

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337d

I am really pleased with this photo. Straight off the camera and it looks SO WEIRD. So many questions. Why such a HUGE arched bridge over what appears to be such a small distance? Why only one solitary pedestrian using it? Where are they going? Where have they been?

I love it.

#photography #Scotland #bridge

A landscape photo of a wide road bridge (two lanes of road and a pedestrian path each side) in a high arch, taken looking up the steep slope. It is surrounded by green trees, with no sight of what it is crossing, but there is a large stretch of water beyond the land. On the right are two small white buildings, half hidden by trees. There is a single figure walking down the steep slope towards us. They carry a large, light blue bag. The rest of the bridge is empty.

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310d

Just another quiet night over the bay (about 20 minutes real-time) 😎
#Aurora #Scotland #Highlands

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227d

Jura: George Orwell’s Scottish Hideaway

Discover the austere island retreat where Big Brother was born.

By: Rob Crossan

https://daily.jstor.org/jura-george-orwells-scottish-hideaway/

#books #literature #travel #Scotland

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161d

Mountain Hare

Yawning.

They don't do a great deal during the day, at this time of the year, so seeing one do this, is a good thing.

#mountainhare #hare #ukwildlife #scotland #highlands #winter

A photograph of a mountain hare in its winter pelage, yawning.

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211d

I am one of very few female drystone wallers in Scotland & the world. Below are some things I've worked on. I am very often inspired by traditional drystone structures like planticrus and sheep stells and enjoy bringing their beauty and functionality into our modern lives.

For more nerdy stone stuff...

https://www.thedrystonecompany.com/drystone-diary

#Drystone #Craft #Scotland

A colour photograph of a semi circular drystone feature in a lush garden. Structure inspired by a sheep stell.

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217d

Boundaries.

#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia #Art #landscape #Abstract #Scotland

A colour photograph showing standing water on rippled sand. The water fills the centre of the frame, reflecting the blue afternoon sky above with partially submerged ripples bounded by clear sand top and bottom.

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Wow, 2024 was quite a year! Here's a collage of my favourite photographs from all over the world. I was delighted to make images from several bucket list locations, experience awe inspiring conditions, and work on some deeply meaningful photographic projects (completing one and starting another!). This next year is set to be just as incredible, with multiple workshops and trips already scheduled. Bring on 2025!

#newyear #2025 #photography #travel #nature #scotland #unitedkingdom #southafrica

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166d

As above, so below.

Very lucky to see this cloud inversion from above and then at ground level this afternoon.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Scotland #WomenInPhotography #Landscape #Nikon

A black and white photograph of hills towering over a cloud inversion that looks like a floating white lake. The clouds are minging with the trees in a forest.

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A black and white photograph of a muted and misty loch scene where a small jetty extends onto a clam water.

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Wishing everyone peaceful and happy holidays! Thank you so much for following along for what has been an incredible year (I'll reflect more on 2024 in another post). For now, here are 4 new winter images from Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest. Enjoy :)

#scotland #landscapephotography #forest #woodland #woodlandphotography #trees #winter #uk #unitedkingdom #happyholidays

Scots pine trees stand tall above a frozen loch

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Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!

One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.

Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)

Edited to add link: Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj

#Scotland #Glasgow #linguistics #experiment #psycholinguistics #academicChatter

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Red Sky In The Morning

One of the things I love most about our house in #Fife is that my bedroom window faces south, and I get to see beauty like this some mornings when I open the curtains.

This is why I keep a camera upstairs - for the only thing that delays my vital first coffee!

@photography

#Scotland #November #WeatherPhotography

A colour photo of a dawn. The foreground is at the bottom of the panorama and consists of a row of trees and a couple of unlit street-lights. The sky is filled by stripes and swirls of cloud, some tattered and wispy, other quite solid, all touched by the warm colours of the sunrise. The palette is from an orangey-yellow, through umber and orange to a light brown. A small part of the sky is clear of cloud, and is a pale cyan.

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Hi folks

Just joined today. I'm a retired Scottish gentleman interested in vintage buses and I hope to post some interesting facts as we go along.

I'm building a website using Hugo and I'm currently visiting transport museums and collecting photographs.

#vintagebuses #buses #transport #scotland

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Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server mainly intended for people in Scotland or those who identify as Scottish:

https://mastodon.scot

You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet

#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scot #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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This one was hard.

I wrote about being the wrong kind of victim.

The kind who stayed. The kind who didn't call the police. The kind who texted three days after.

And yes, it might make you feel uncomfortable, but it's the experience of many, many victims. So important to understand.

https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/not-the-right-kind-of-victim/

#Writing #Women #Scotland #WritingThroughTrauma #Memoir #BreakingTheSilence

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Pleased to inform Fancy Duck is still in the area. Operation Get A Better Photo of Fancy Duck is GO GO GO!

#photography #birds #Scotland #duckstraction

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It’s a year ago tonight that I was fortunate to witness one of the best displays of the Aurora Borealis that I have seen. The amazing thing is that this was mainly present in the southern sky with the whole southern arc lit up with the bold colours and easily visibly to the naked eye. Amazing stuff and a memorable night #Aurora #NorthernLights #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

An image of the multi coloured Aurora in the night sky over North East Scotland.

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57th: The Hanging Garden Ian Rankin’s outstanding 9th book in John Rebus series where grapples with the hit and run on his grown daughter, a cold case linked to a possible Nazi war criminal, and gang violence breaking out on Edinburgh’s streets. #books #crimefiction #Scotland

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Just finished this 5-metre-long drystone seating area on the banks of a loch.

It stands about 1.5m tall and will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.

The idea was to create something rooted in the land, not just placed on it. Sheltered, steady, and quietly purposeful. A place to pause and reflect.

Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.

#Drystone #Craft #Scotland #Sustainable #Environment #Nature

A head-on shot of the finished drystone wall, showing the full arch and the even, tight stonework. The three large protruding stones, meant to hold a bench, are clearly visible. Behind, a stand of thin trees in early leaf frames the scene.

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A close, angled view of the wall from the right-hand side. The depth of the wall and the precise fit of the stones are visible. The three bench supports jut out confidently, and the coping stones curve cleanly along the top edge.

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A wide view of a newly built drystone wall, recessed into a grassy bank with a light woodland backdrop. The wall features a curved arch of upright coping stones along the top and three protruding flat stones spaced across the middle, intended to support a bench. Earth around the wall is still rough from the recent build.

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Memory & Moggies: McIlvanney, Muriel & Making a Novel
10 June, free online

Prof Zoë Strachan explores the inspiration behind her latest novel, the historical fiction Catch The Moments as They Fly (2023) – including the work of William McIlvanney, & Muriel Spark’s advice that writers should acquire a cat…

@writingcommunity
@litstudies

https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

#Scottish #literature #writing #historicalfiction #novel #IAmWriting #WritingCommunity #Scotland #Ayrshire #memory