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47 images Created 7 Feb 2018

SCOTLAND . . .

Scotland has been a major focus of Jim Richardson's photography for over 25 years, since his first commission for National Geographic Magazine.
These images feature it's colorful traditions, scenic landscapes, wildlife, whisky distilleries, Highland culture, Celtic heritage, Stone Age archeology and island life. Besides a deep history and long cultural tradition Scotland has emerged as a vibrant economic force and rich cultural wellspring. Questions of Brexit and possible Scottish independence have kept Scotland in the news as it seeks a different path and questions its place in the United Kingdom.
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  • On Gesto Farm, the crofting farm of Angus Beaton on the Isle of Skye, which overlooks the dramatic Cuillin Mountains in the background. Angus raises sheep on this small croft, the form of tenant farming particular to the Highlands and Moors of Scotland.
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  • Opening of grouse season at Balavil Estate, Kingussie, Scotland.
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  • Glenfinnan Highland Games and Gathering at Glenfinnan.  Part of the ceremonies are the raising of the standard to commemorate Bonnie Prince Charlie rallying the Highlanders to his cause at Glenfinnan (which led to their eventual downfall.)  Some of the White Cockade Society participated in old Highland costume.
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11?51?N, 06°44?41?W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.
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  • Street performers at Edinburgh Fringe. "National No-Smiling Day" a comical send up that was very popular.
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  • Lobster fishing in Orkney on the island of North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK.<br />
 Ian Delyell takes his North Ronaldsay Pram out to run his crab and lobster creels around the north coast of North Ronaldsay. Delyell is a crofter, meaning that he farms a bit, fishes a bit, and does other odd jobs to make ends meet on the tiny island (four miles by two miles.) He and his helper are pulling up single creels (mostly) that Delyell drops into single, special holes he knows about from decades of fishing (his father fished here before him.) He triangulates his position from landmarks on shore and "reads" the bottom to place he creels exactly. The get about a pound (Sterling) per kilo of crabs and about nine pounds per kilo of lobsters.
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  • Gathering for the beginning of grouse season at Balavil Estate in the Highlands of Scotland.  Shooters dressed as Victorian hunting party with muzzle-loading shotguns.
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  • At the Blairgowrie and Rattray Games in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Chieftain of the Games, Laurence Blair Oliphant of Ardblair and Gask.
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  • Glenfinnan Highland Games and Gathering at Glenfinnan.  Part of the ceremonies are the raising of the standard to commemorate Bonnie Prince Charlie rallying the Highlanders to his cause at Glenfinnan (which led to their eventual downfall.)  Some of the White Cockade Society participated in old Highland costume.
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  • Staffa is the island of volcanic basalt columns on the west coast of the Isle of Mull, made famous by Fingal's Cave.
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  • Tug of war at the Lonach Gathering. The Lonach Highlanders are members of The Lonach Highland and Friendly Society, made up of men from the Strathdon area of Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
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  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.  For many in the festival it is a sacred event, welcoming spring. The central figure is the May Queen who marches from station to station to receive the admirations of Earth, Air, Fire, etc.  Her "White Women" are tempted by Red Men.  Eventually the foliage of last year is stripped from her escort whom she then brings back to life.   Blue men act as security and crowd control, whipping those who will not obey.  Columns are a landmark of Calton Hill.
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  • Colin Murdoch is head gamekeeper at Reraig Forest near Loch Carron. He manages their deer herd including the feeding of stags on the hills overlooking Loch Carron.
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  • On Orkney, the group of islands off the north coast of Scotland.Balfour Castle is the focal point of Shapinsay, one of the islands in Orkney.
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  • Pennan, seaside village on the Morar Firth.  This tiny village has only one row of houses, and represents the native Scots being pushed out to the edges of the Celtic world.  It was also the setting of the cult movie favorite, Local Hero.
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  • Young man feeding Highland cattle at Dalwhinnie in Scotland
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  • Bannatyne MacLeod working sheep on his croft on the Isle of Harris, Scotland
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  • In Glenlyon on the River Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland.Fishing gillie for the Glenlyon Estate.Wearing the Glenlyon Estate tweed.  Fortingall Lodge, Scotland
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  • In Glenlyon on the River Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland.Fishing gillie for the Glenlyon Estate.Wearing the Glenlyon Estate tweed.  Fortingall Lodge, Scotland
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  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
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  • Piping competition at the Glenfinnan Games, Scotland.
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  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
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  • Potstills in the stillhouse of Strathisla Distillery, Scotland. One of the oldest distilleries in Scotland. Part of Speyside.
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  • View from the still house at Caol Ila distillery on the Isle of Islay, Scotland
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  • Mar Lodge Estate is a Scottish Highland estate in Aberdeenshire, owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is entirely contained within the Cairngorms National Park and important for nature conservation, landscape, recreation and culture. <br />
Mar Lodge, under the direction of Shaila Rao, is undertaking a major realignment of their ecology, striving to bring back much more of the Caledonian Forrest that has been lost. To do that they are culling the deer population that suppresses growth of trees.
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  • Looking over the statue to the Highlanders at Glenfinnan as rains sweep down Loch Shiel in the Highlands.  It is here that Bonnie Prince Charlie rallied the Highlanders to his cause (and sent them to their eventual doom at Culloden Moor.)
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  • Former Laird of Muck, Lawrence MacEwan on Beinn Airein, the highest hill on the island. The island has ben in the hands of the MacEwan family since 1896, for four generations. <br />
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Muck is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4 km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mòr. The other settlement on the island is the farm at Gallanach. The island's only road, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, connects the two.
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  • Hunters ready for the beginning of the season, at Balavil Estate, Kingussie, Scotland.
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  • Gordon Muir is the gamekeeper of Tarbert Estate on the Isle of Juram Scotland. Muir takes deer stalkers out on the hills of Jura. He is very traditional, wearing tweed plus fours and a deerstalker cap. The Isle of Jura is on the west coast of Scotland and known for having more than 6,000 deer but only 200 people.
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  • Post Office on the Isle of Iona, Scotland.
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  • Sheepherder Allan Gray gathers his sheep near the ruins of historic Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe, Scotland.
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  • Stromness is a fishing village in Orkney, Scotland.
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  • Traquair is Scotland's oldest inhabited house. It has been lived in for over 900 years and was originally a hunting lodge for the kings and queens of Scotland. John Stuart, 4th Laird of Traquair, was of the Queen's bodyguard to Mary Queen of Scots, who visited the castle in 1566.
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  • Falkirk Wheel lifts canal boats in Scotland
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  • Iona, seat of Celtic Christianity in Scotland where St. Columba came ashore from Ireland to establish his monastery in sixth century, on the island at the western end of the Isle of Mull.  Still a working religious center where pilgrims come by the thousands to follow the ways of Celtic Christianity.  The Celtic Cross has stood outside the church for over 1,000 years.
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  • Sunday morning church services in Gaelic at the Free Church of Scotland in Barvas on the Isle of Lewis.  Minister is Calum Ian MacLeod.  Women wear hats, there is no piano or organ, hymns sung by "precentation" which is akin to lining out style, the elder singing a line and being followed by the congregation.  Very eerie, beautiful music.
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  • Sunday morning church services in Gaelic at the Free Church of Scotland in Barvas on the Isle of Lewis.  Minister is Calum Ian MacLeod.  Women wear hats, there is no piano or organ, hymns sung by "precentation"  which is akin to lining out style, the elder singing a line and being followed by the congregation.
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  • St Clement's Church (Scottish Gaelic: Tur Chliamainn, meaning Clement's Tower) is a fifteenth century church in Rodel, Harris, Scotland, built for the Chiefs of the MacLeods of Harris. It is dedicated to Pope Clement I. It is sometimes known as Eaglais Ròdal or Rodal Church.
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  • Wild ponies on the moors on the road to Skipport, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.  Their wild coats suggest the untamed nature of the outer islands. They live in a designated natural area.
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  • Sheep dog out on a quite evenining on North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, practicing sheep moving skills.
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  • St. Kilda is a small group of islands some 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland.  It is famous for its bird colonies and the story of the evacuation of the people of St. Kilda in 1930, after thousands of years of human occupation.  A beautiful day.
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  • Stromness is an historic fishing town in Orkney, Scotland. Once a whaling port with houses laid out along the harbor.
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  • Lobster fishermen return to North Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland after a morning working their lobster pots.  The boat is a North Ronaldsay Pram, unique to this small island of about 60 peope. The lighthouse is the Old Beacon at Dennis Head, built in 1789 by Thomas Smith.
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  • Tioran Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula where you can walk out to the castle at low tide.  Patricia Appleton is seen with her talk on the beach as the tide recedes.
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