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Creeping Sand Dunes, China
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Broch of Gurness, Orkney, Scotland
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Horse on Isle of Muck, Scotland
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Caol Ila Distillery, Isle of Islay, Scotland
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Golowan Parade, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
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Little Skellig, Ireland
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Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK
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Scotland Fix of the Day: The landscape around Carloway Broch (Dun Carloway) is laden with history and intrigue. Built roughly 2,000 years ago the broch itself has survived remarkably well, considering that the stones from which it was built were also very
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Scotland Fix of the Day: This scene, flying over Stromness in Orkney, evokes much of the rich history that makes travel in Scotland so rewarding. I’ve just been rereading some of George MacKay Brown’s short stories from A Time to Keep where the town of Ha
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Scotland Fix of the Day: The view from atop Sgorr Tuath overlooking Assynt in northwest Scotland us evocative of the vast wild character of the remote Highlands. If you are planning travel to Scotland it is worth going beyond the standard destinations and
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While in Wyoming last week we had a beautiful morning at String Lake in Grand Teton N.P. I’ve photographed this scene before but the image I got from my iPhone really amazed me. Which is timely because on October 18 I’m teaching my popular online iPhone p
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The Summit Nature Workshop for 2021 is wrapped up. Our time together in Jackson Hole was just brilliant: the aspen were turning, the elk were bugling, bison grazing beneath the Tetons and mornings at the R Lazy S ranch filling with memories of horses trot
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Beautiful evening watching the bison grazing in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. Sharing that moment with all our Summit Nature Workshop photographers added to the excitement. The workshop wraps up tomorrow. Thanks @sonyalpha for your support #photoworksho
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Scotland Fix of the Day: One of the delights of Scottish living in the countryside might include walking your dog at low tide out to explore the ruins of Castle Tioram that sits on the tidal island of Eilean Tiroam in Loch Moidart. It's a pretty scene but
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Scotland Fix of the Day: The pretty village of Port Ellen on the Isle of Islay shone as the rains departed for the evening. The rows of houses tell the story of a planned community, founded in 1825 as a malt mill for the whisky makers, Port Ellen distille
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Candles have been burning in various sacred buildings and churches here on the Isle of Iona since Saint Columba came here in 563 AD -- and probably before. It was probably a Celtic sacred site before arrived. Since then various ch
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Evening falls over the Lagavulin distillery on the south coast of Islay. Rain passing through left the casks on the quay reflecting the sunset while fishing boats bobbed in the bay. Traditionally distilleries on the coast had an a
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Moonlit night on the Isle of Jura, down on the small harbor, quiet under the stars as a cloud billows to the north. It was raining over on the mainland. #scotland #isleofjura #starrynight #hiddenscotland #ig_scotland #visitscotlan
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Scotland Fix of the Day: It’s a long single-track road that takes you seventeen miles up the Isle of Jura — where it ends. While some places in Scotland have gotten quite busy (Skye?) others are still blessedly remote and likely to stay that way. It’s two
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Scotland Fix of the Day: I am just enthralled sometimes by how adaptable life can be. First lichens and then grasses colonize the volcanic basalt columns on Staffa, and then the seabirds find choice nesting niches on the steep cliffs. There is a certain c
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Inside Fingal’s Cave in the as the light fades to night, it can be a haunting place. I was back inside a basalt lava flow looking out, a bit primordial really, the stuff to invoke myths and legends. On Staffa off the west coast of
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Tranquil evening on the Caledonian Canal in Ft. Augustus. I still find it amazing that you can go clear across Scotland by boat, the legacy of ambitious planners two centuries ago, anxious to develop the Highlands as well as givin
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Scotland Fix of the Day: The story of the stones at the Ring of Brodgar is really quite varied. Sixty stones were erected by the Neolithic people living here beginning about 2500 BCE. Thirty six survive, some fell and broke, some were struck by lightening
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Scotland Fix of the Day: If you are an archeologist there is never a lack of something to dig in Orkney. This site at the Links of Noltkand demanded immediate attention from Historic Scotland as the winds whipping between the dunes started to erode away t
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Few vistas scan match the scene on St. Kilda looking down on the towering sea cliffs while the nesting seabirds float by. Out beyond is Boreray, uninhabited and mighty tough to get onto. Obviously it’s a photographers delight. Wea
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Scotland Fix of the Day: What a scene to see as the crew from Pabbay farms was hauling cattle off of the little island of Ensay back to the Isle of Harris, Scotland. The farmers graze cattle on the island in the summer, a pretty bit of pasture just off th
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Rain is no problem in Scotland, so long as you are ready for it. (And you should always be ready for it.) Properly kitted out like this gentleman standing in the lee of the Highland monument at Glenfinnan a bit of rain just makes
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Scotland Fix of the Day: Any list of Lord of the Rings locales in Scotland would include the classic view of Eilean Donan castle, complete with bridge. But wander around the backside and the scene is, if anything, more stark. The bridge makes for excellen
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Scotland Fix of the Day: If there is one place in Scotland I’d love to see in The Lord of the Rings it would be Fingal’s Cave on Staffa. What treasure (or evil) might lurk in the heart of the cave? It always suggests primordial forces, the stuff of anothe
