word-mntn (Creag Torr Fionn), fair tower crag, by the Linn of Tummell

Monochrome photograph of a rolling Highland hillside, its surface textured with peat hags and tussock grass. The hill rises to a broad, rounded summit against a flat grey sky. No human presence, the landscape fills the entire frame.

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Most of you here know me as a writer, but first (and maybe foremost) I am a photographer. So on that note, I have an announcement.

#Art #Photography #Scotland

e) Autonomy. Don’t be a loser, don’t get Your name in the paper stay underground or Elsewhere when the Authorities arrive Big show of elegant fronds green plumes The business end of it completely unnoticed.

Philip Whalen

Cairngorms Fauna Jukebox, by Alec Finlay and Chris Watson 11 track album

Synchronicity! Found out about this set of quite literal field "record"-ings (field recording records field recorded) on the bus this AM by following up on a post by @alecfinlay.bsky.social, then got to work and Chris Watson emailed me about something related! gathering.bandcamp.com/album/cairng...

23. Alec Finlay: The Language of Place

a discussion of place-awareness and expanded access to nature, on The Land Behind open.spotify.com/episode/7skz...

decorum

PEEING
OUTDOORS
luxury

SHITTING
OUTDOORS
necessity

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Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Clach Ossian, bad auto-correct.

Clash Ossian, birthplace of the Gaelic muse, Sma Glen

Arboreal Rannoch

beithe
on one side
of the loch

giuthas
on the other side
of the loch

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looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion with cloud on
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion in the sun!

a dozen ways of looking at Schiehallion

looking at Schiehallion in the mist
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion with snow on
looking at Schiehallion in the rain
looking at Schiehallion in the rain

let's agree that you don't need to pass vetting to pass vetting.

Of course. Just PM me and I can email you some photos.

Estimate around £500-750, depending on site and materials.

One real sign exists in Cambridge. Another will soon go up in Luton, in English and Hindi. I also have a collection of translations of rest in world languages, for use on signs, where people will commission them.

dailies, 17.IV.26, for Joshua Beckman

Ransetsu was correct–
the snowy mountain is like
a body beneath a sheet

the cloud continues
the angle of the mountain
further than you could climb

16.IV.26

Farage's visit to Scotland is one of the rare occasions when the most irritating living thing in the country isn't midges.

this morning
there is no spider
only the tissue paper
ladder she put down
into the bath

15.IV.26

the birds she hears
and the rain are

there in the morning
when I hear nothing

14.IV.26

correction

the swallows in yesterday’s
poem were martins

closer-in their white bellies
rhyme with the waves

13.IV.26

fresh snow
on Schiehallion

the first three swallows
dare the loch

12.IV.26

the name of the bloom

the rare early
‘don’t tell me’
don’t tell me’
with its famous
blue flowers

The American Trip, 1993, first meeting with Cecilia Vicuna, who I went on to publish 3 times. I still have copies of Ceci's morning star folio, PALABRARmas, translated into Scots by Edwin Morgan as WURDAPPINschaw, £10.

after Teishitsu

we must go and see
the cherry blossoms

so that she can say
look at the cherry blossoms

10.IV.26

A homage to WCW?