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  • Scottish Whisky Country tour of 2010. <br />
  Balblair Distillery.<br />
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©Jim Richardson  All rights reserved. You can see more of my work at:  www.jimrichardsonphotography.com
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.
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  • Waves on Loch Ness. Scotland. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Tea on the lawn of the Argyle Hotel, Isle of Iona off the coast of Isle of Mull, the home of Christianity in Scotland.
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  • At the Blairgowrie and Rattray Games in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Chieftain of the Games, Laurence Blair Oliphant of Ardblair and Gask.
    Scotland_20080907_0984.jpg
  • Bannatyne MacLeod working sheep on his croft on the Isle of Harris, Scotland
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  • Waves on Loch Linnhe, Scotland. Traveling down the Caladonian Canal between Fort Augustus and Banavie, Lord of the Glens Cruise, 2007
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  • Heather covers the hills around Corgarff Castle in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. Corgarff Castle is located in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. The castle was built in the mid 16th century by the Forbes of Towie. In 1571 it was burned by their enemy, Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, resulting in the deaths of Lady Forbes, her children, and numerous others, and giving rise to the ballad Edom o Gordon. After the Jacobite risings of the 18th century, it was rebuilt as a barracks. It is now in the care of Historic Scotland and is open to the public.<br />
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Heather blooms in the late summer and is the ideal habitat for grouse in Scotland, making it essential to the economics of estates that depend on grouse shooting for part of their income. <br />
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The park was established in 2003 and is now the largest National Park in Great Britain.
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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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  • Ardbeg Distillery on the Isle of Islay, ScotlandMichael Heads is the distillery manager.  Islay, Scotland
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  • Lagavulin Distillery on the Isle of Islay, Scotland  Islay, Scotland
    ScotlandBurns 20090128 8349.jpg
  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
    MM7902_20130813_25523_v2.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • Ardbeg Distillery on the Isle of Islay, Scotland  Islay, Scotland
    ScotlandBurns 20090128 8423-Edit.jpg
  • In Glenlyon on the River Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland.Fishing gillie for the Glenlyon Estate.Wearing the Glenlyon Estate tweed.  Fortingall Lodge, Scotland
    ScotlandBurns 20090127 6487.jpg
  • Heather covers the hills of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. Heather blooms in the late summer and is the ideal habitat for grouse in Scotland, making it essential to the economics of estates that depend on grouse shooting for part of their income. <br />
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The park was established in 2003 and is now the largest National Park in Great Britain.
    MM8321_20150830_14156-Edit.jpg
  • The coastal landscape of Sutherland at Kinlochbervie, Scotland. The Scottish Moors cover the hills and come down to the sea here in the desolate part of northwest Scotland that has scant population. Kinlochbervie is a harbour village in the north west of Sutherland.
    MM8321_20150817_3379.jpg
  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
    MM7902_20130813_25595.jpg
  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
    MM7902_20130813_25551.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • Puffin on the Shiant Isles, The Hebrides, Scotland. <br />
The Shiant Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Mòra), also known in Gaelic as "The Enchanted Isles" (Na h-Eileanan Seunta) are a privately owned island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are five miles south east of Lewis. <br />
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The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Driving the North Coast 500, the wild road that goes up and over the top of Scotland, made popular this year by a new tourist designation and route, called the North Coast 500.  <br />
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The North Coast 500 is a 516-mile (830 km) scenic route around the north coast of Scotland, starting and ending at Inverness Castle. <br />
The North Coast 500 (Also known as NC500) was created by the North Highland Initiative and was designed to bring together the best of the north Highlands of Scotland in one iconic touring route.
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  • The Braeroy Estate near Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland.<br />
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Gamekeeper Tim Healy, Hoodie Corner, Kilmore, Oban, Argyle, Scotland.
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  • Abernethy is a 12,000-hectare nature reserve sitting within the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. It is a fine exemplar of the remaining Caledonian forests, featuring a few old "granny trees" amongst growth that is much, much younger and of a different character. <br />
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The RSPB manages the majority of the reserve with Scottish National Heritage (SNH) taking care of part of it. Abernethy is an important site for ancient Caledonian pine trees, and species such as capercaillie and crested tit.<br />
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Like most of Scotland’s native woods, Abernethy has suffered deforestation over the centuries. Sheep and deer browsing then conspired to prevent new tree growth. Blocks of commercial conifer plantations have been sown into areas where there would have been native woodland.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130819_34774.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130818_34665.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_ 20120806_03500.jpg
  • 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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  • Katy MacLoed playing in The Ewe pub at Fortingall Hotel in Fortingall, Scotland.  Fortingall Lodge, Scotland
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  • Driving the North Coast 500, the wild road that goes up and over the top of Scotland, made popular this year by a new tourist designation and route, called the North Coast 500.  <br />
<br />
The North Coast 500 is a 516-mile (830 km) scenic route around the north coast of Scotland, starting and ending at Inverness Castle. <br />
The North Coast 500 (Also known as NC500) was created by the North Highland Initiative and was designed to bring together the best of the north Highlands of Scotland in one iconic touring route.
    MM8321_20161026_38328-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130819_34779.jpg
  • The Knap of Howar on the small island of Papa Westray is the oldest house in Northern Europe, predating even the village of Skara Brae on the nearby Mainland of Orkney, Scotland.  The two side-by-side dwellings are in a remarkable state of preservation, reflecting daily life in the Neolithic era.
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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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  • Horses on the beach at Isle of Muck Farms at the end of the road on the small island.  From here you can see the Isle of Rum.<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.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-23_8207.jpg
  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • Joe Brandie, Innkeeper at the Fiddichside Inn, Craigellachie, Scotland.
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  • Caol Ila Distillery on the Isle of Islay, looking out across the Sound of Islay to the Isle of Jura, Scotland.  Islay, Scotland
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  • Craigellachie Distillery potstills in Craigellachie, Scotland
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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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  • Malted barley being prepared to dry at Highland Park distillery in Scotland. The grain has been soaked in water and allowed to sit until the seeds are just ready to sprout, then transferred to this tower where heat will be used to dry it out.
    SC-0039 Highland Park Grai.jpg
  • Whisky casks piled high at the Speyside Cooperage near Dufftown, Scotland. The whisky industry in Scotland required massive numbers of casks for aging single malt wishes.
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  • On Sgorr Tuath in Assynt in the far northwest of Scotland, a vast land of will moors and towering mountains. <br />
Sgorr Tuath is 589m (1933ft) and a rough climb but is still the 2,944th highest mountain in Scotland. Views here are across to Stac Pollaidh (Stack Polly) which is a popular hiking destination.
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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.
    MM8321_20150824_9274-Edit.jpg
  • The coastal landscape of Sutherland at Kinlochbervie, Scotland. The Scottish Moors cover the hills and come down to the sea here in the desolate part of northwest Scotland that has scant population. Kinlochbervie is a harbour village in the north west of Sutherland.
    MM8321_20150817_3613-Pano.jpg
  • Grouse shooting at Glencalley Estate in Scotland with Robert Jamieson and his friends. This is walk up grouse shooting, with the shooters walking in line across the fields, as opposed to the more expensive driven grouse.
    MM8321_20150814_1535.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130822_37308.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130819_34798.jpg
  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
    MM7902_20130811_23201-Edit.jpg
  • Artifacts from the Ness of Brodgar dig site in Orkney, Scotland. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_20130807_13576.jpg
  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
    MM7902_20130805_12585-Edit.jpg
  • The Ness of Brodgar is a long, narrow isthmus of land between Loch Harray and Loch Stenness in Orkney, Scotland. It is the site of much of the heritage of the neolithic era in Orkney. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_20130805_11716.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_ 20120802_01630.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_ 20120802_01606.jpg
  • Cuween Chambered Cairn is a neolithic burial chamber on Cuween Hill on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  It dates from about 3,000 BCE and is similar in design to Maeshowe. It has exquisite stonework reflect great skill of the builder, and contains four side chambers.
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  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
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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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  • Horses on the beach at Isle of Muck Farms at the end of the road on the small island.  From here you can see the Isle of Rum.<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.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-23_7188.jpg
  • 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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  • Laphroaig Distillery, Islay, 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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  • The Potstill bar in Glasgow features hundreds of whiskies. Scotland
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  • Sampling whisky at Laphroaig Distillery, Isle of Islay, Scotland.
    SC-0096 Lagavulin Tasting.jpg
  • 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.<br />
To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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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.
    SC-0056 Balavil Hunters (1).jpg
  • Potstills in the stillhouse of Strathisla Distillery, Scotland. One of the oldest distilleries in Scotland. Part of Speyside.
    SC-0046 Pot Stills.jpg
  • Deer stalking with head gamekeeper Dougie Langlands at Ardverikie Estate near Laggan, Scotland. 

Ardverikie is one of the great estates of Scotland, with the estate house on the banks of Loch Laggan. The family returns to gather around the ancestral seat several times a year and the gamekeeper hosts grouse shooting and deer stalking.
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  • Deer stalking with head gamekeeper Dougie Langlands at Ardverikie Estate near Laggan, Scotland. 

Ardverikie is one of the great estates of Scotland, with the estate house on the banks of Loch Laggan. The family returns to gather around the ancestral seat several times a year and the gamekeeper hosts grouse shooting and deer stalking.
    MM8321_20161019_35903.jpg
  • Deer stalking with head gamekeeper Dougie Langlands at Ardverikie Estate near Laggan, Scotland. 

Ardverikie is one of the great estates of Scotland, with the estate house on the banks of Loch Laggan. The family returns to gather around the ancestral seat several times a year and the gamekeeper hosts grouse shooting and deer stalking.
    MM8321_20161019_35620.jpg
  • Gathering sheep from the small island of Vuia Mor with Norrie MacKay and his crew of fellow crofters. Near Bhaltos on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The island is part of the common grazing and each crofter has grazing rights for a certain number of sheep. Hauling them by boat is an old tradition here and good time is had by all, even if it is very hard work. 

Fuaigh Mòr is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is off the west coast of Lewis near Great Bernera in Loch Roag. It is 84 hectares (0.32 square miles) and 67 metres (220 feet) at its highest point.
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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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  • Driven grouse shoot on the Urlar Estate near Aberfeldy in the Highlands of Scotland. "
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  • Driven grouse shoot on the Urlar Estate near Aberfeldy in the Highlands of Scotland. "
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  • The beautiful Rackwick Valley and beach on Hoy are some of the most dramatic scenery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The wide beach is strewn with massive stones, polished round by the unrelenting sea.
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  • Midhowe is a large Neolithic chambered cairn located on the south shore of the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb is a particularly well preserved example of the Orkney-Cromarty type of chambered cairn. Tombs of this type are often referred to as "stalled" cairns due to their distinctive internal structure.
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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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  • The Storr is part of the Trotternish geologic formation in the northeast corner of the Isle of Skye, Scotland.  The largest of the monoliths is called The Old Man of Storr.  To the south are the Cuillins of southern Skye.
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  • Views of the harbor in Castlebay as night falls on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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  • The beautiful Rackwick Valley and beach on Hoy are some of the most dramatic scenery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The wide beach is strewn with massive stones, polished round by the unrelenting sea.
    MM7902_20130809_15915.jpg
  • 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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  • Sheepherder Allan Gray gathers his sheep near the ruins of historic Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe, Scotland.
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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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  • Malting floor, Laphroaig Distillery, Islay, Scotland
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  • Sampling whisky at Laphroaig Distillery, Isle of Islay, Scotland.
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  • Local women gather on the roadside to talk on the Isle of Muck, a small island of only 39 people. <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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  • 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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  • Cutting peat on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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  • Deer stalking with head gamekeeper Dougie Langlands at Ardverikie Estate near Laggan, Scotland. 

Ardverikie is one of the great estates of Scotland, with the estate house on the banks of Loch Laggan. The family returns to gather around the ancestral seat several times a year and the gamekeeper hosts grouse shooting and deer stalking.
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  • Gathering sheep from the small island of Vuia Mor with Norrie MacKay and his crew of fellow crofters. Near Bhaltos on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. The island is part of the common grazing and each crofter has grazing rights for a certain number of sheep. Hauling them by boat is an old tradition here and good time is had by all, even if it is very hard work. 

Fuaigh Mòr is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is off the west coast of Lewis near Great Bernera in Loch Roag. It is 84 hectares (0.32 square miles) and 67 metres (220 feet) at its highest point.
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  • Alvie Estate near Aviemore is the property of Jamie Williamson, one of the more progressive estate owners trying to make a paying proposition out of Highland land holdings. Besides the traditional sporting activities like grouse shooting and deer stalking they also have camping, rental properties, and other adventure activities. <br />
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Alvie & Dalraddy are adjoining Estates that are run as one land holding located 4 miles south of Aviemore near the village of Kincraig within the district of Badenoch.  Badenoch is approximately the geographic centre of Scotland. The Estates extend from the River Spey, between Loch Insh and Loch Alvie, North West into the Monadhliath hills. Most of the properties on the Estates face South East many with spectacular views of the Cairngorm Mountains.
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  • Heather covers the hills of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. Heather blooms in the late summer and is the ideal habitat for grouse in Scotland, making it essential to the economics of estates that depend on grouse shooting for part of their income. <br />
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The park was established in 2003 and is now the largest National Park in Great Britain.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Jim Richardson on assignment for National Geographic. 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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  • Foggy morning in Durness, on the far northwest tip of Scotland. Fog drifting down from the peaks over the moors of Sutherland.
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  • The Pierowall Stone was a lintel on a now-lost burial cairn in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. It was found in pieces at a quarry after the tomb had been unknowingly destroyed.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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