Sunday afternoon reading. Picked up a Wendell Berry essay about the idea that good work done in a specific place matters more than grand gestures done everywhere. Makes me think about Lawrence, about why I'm not interested in going anywhere. Roots aren't a limitation. #SenseOfPlace

A photo of Campbell McGrath and Sandra simonds reading poetry at the Dali Museum.

Great reading last night at the Dali Museum with Campbell McGrath and Sandra Simonds.

They both shared work with a strong sense of place 😀

#poetryreading #poetry #senseofplace

Kilmory, West Ardnamurchan.

“The shore is not a boundary, but a meeting place.”

Part 25 of Spiorad Àird nam Murchan is now live.

'The Edge of the Sea - Oir na Mara'

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2026/2/...

Join me at the edge.

#Ardnamurchan #SpioradAirdNamMurchan #Writing #Photography #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

A desolate Cumbrian street at dusk, the soil stained deep rust-red from iron ore, with a heavy mist rolling off the nearby fells. Moody, cinematic lighting with a gritty, tactile atmosphere reminiscent of a 35mm film still.

Which Cumbrian place has never quite left you?

Not the famous view — the place that got under your skin for reasons you can't quite explain.

Mine was Egremont. A whole world in a horse-collar and a crab apple.

#CumbriaInVerse #SenseOfPlace

Cheers Colin. Southwold Jack aka Jack the Smiter. @adnamssouthwold.bsky.social "oldest trademark", a replica high up on the brewery wall, the guardian of the brewery. The emblem for their English Bitter. #SenseofPlace

#Missoula
#MissoulaEvents
#MontanaArts
#Storytelling
#CivicEngagement
#TellUsSomething
#SenseOfPlace
#FirstAmendment
#SupportLocalArtists
#MMIP
#Montana250

Who needs this door anyway? 😂
#urbanlandscape #architecture #cityspace #china #senseofplace #funny

The building rises, the ground recedes.
Perspective quietly shifts.
This is how distance feels in a city.
#urbanlandscape
#architecture #cityspace #china #senseofplace #quietmoment

A strong community is a place of joy and belonging. @cromer_tribe

Community matters more than ever.
In shared places and everyday moments, we find belonging, resilience and care for one another. When communities thrive, the places we cherish do too.

#CommunityMatters #SenseOfPlace #StrongerTogether #Belonging #LookingAfterEachOther

A strong community is a place of joy and belonging. @aylshamtribe

Community matters more than ever 🩷
#CommunityMatters #SenseOfPlace #StrongerTogether #LocalConnections #CaringForPlaces #SharedHeritage #TogetherWeCare #CommunityWellbeing #Belonging #LifeInCommon #LookingAfterEachOther #aylsham #aylshamtribe #aylshamnorfolk #aylshamlife

Prague at night from hotel room

After the City Settles

Warm light and softened motion as the city moves toward rest.
Created for hospitality interiors where atmosphere, rhythm, and a refined sense of place matter more than spectacle.

#HospitalityArt #ArtForInteriors #ArchitecturalPhotography #SenseOfPlace #CommercialArt

Mesa Arch at Dawn

The First Aperture
Me
An architectural meditation on light and threshold, suited to corridors, entries, and shared spaces where orientation and structure quietly guide movement.

#HospitalArt #ArchitecturalPhotography #EnvironmentalDesign #SenseOfPlace

Mudflats and meandering stream - Kentra, Moidart.

“Consider your own practice. Where is your place, the landscape that entrances you? How do you respond?”

Join the conversation:

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/12...

Spiorad aird nam Murchan - Part 22 'Response / freagairt'

#CreativePractice #Photography #SenseOfPlace #SpioradAirdNamMurchan

Sanna Bhaeg (Little Sanna), West Ardnamurchan.

“Finding the place, a landscape, that so entrances and moves that one’s creative journey roots there is rare. Ardnamurchan is that for me.”

Spiorad aird nam Murchan Pt.22 - Response (Freagairt)

Read more: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/12...

#Ardnamurchan #Photography #SenseOfPlace #Writing

Patience, light, and a sense of place. This category rewards photographers who can turn scale and atmosphere into emotion.

Enter your work online at europeanphotographers.eu

#FEPawards2026 #LandscapePhotography #SenseOfPlace #LightAndLand #LandscapePhotographer

Here's the video from Ann de Forest's walking-art project "The Thing to Be Known Grows with the Knowing," shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards. The project records her experiences in the Western Ghats of India.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L14c...
#walking #India #senseofplace

The Thing to be Known Grows with the Knowing: Walking in the Western Ghats from Ignorance to Intimacy. “The Thing to Be Known Grows with the Knowing” reflects on my experiences walking in the rich and fragile environment of India’s Western Ghats propelled by the question: What does it mean to be a gue...

We've posted before about the adventures in India of our walking artist, Ann de Forest, editor of our book WAYS OF WALKING.

Now Ann's slide essay about the project is shortlisted for an award by @walklistencreate.

walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece...

#walkingartist #india #senseofplace

A trunk of deadfall and its reflection in symmetry juxtaposed against sunset glow reflected on calm river water. Intense telephoto compression. On camera fill flash.

Ann Arbor, MI 11/1/25 #Photography #SenseofPlace #Sunset #Stunday Canon FD300 2.8 #Vintagelens

Glenborradale, Ardnamurchan.

“I touch the sheeted rock and count back sixty million breaths.”

Revisit Elemental IV – Fire as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11/spiorad-ird-nam-murchan--elemental-iv-fire

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Fire #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

Sanna, West Ardnamurchan. Setting sun way out west through the machair grasses.

“Air here is not absence; it is a sculptor, a voice threading the machair and combing the basalt lips with salt.”

Revisit Elemental III – Air as we prepare for ‘Spirit’ this Sunday 8pm (tomorrow).

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11...

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Air #SenseOfPlace #DeepTime

An 8-point buck in autumn forest

Ann Arbor, MI 11/15/25 #Photography #ForestFriday #Nature #SenseofPlace Canon FD300 2.8 #Vintagelens

“Water here is not passive; it is a sculptor, a restless artisan carving basalt lips and whispering through machair grass.”

Revisit Elemental II – Water as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Water #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

Sedge grasses / Loch Grigadale, West Ardnamurchan.

“The land here does not shout its strength; it holds it quietly, like stone cupping the weight of centuries.”

Revisit Elemental I – Earth, the first in the Elemental series, as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

#Ardnamurchan #Earth #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

The City as Collective Memory: How Places Remember and Why It Matters Cities are often described as engines of economy, centers of culture, or networks of infrastructure. These descriptions are accurate, but they miss a deeper truth: cities are also repositories of memory. They hold the stories of the people who built them, lived in them, and shaped them across generations. This memory is not stored in books or archives alone. It is embedded in the city’s very form—in its streets, buildings, landmarks, and even patterns of everyday life.

Your city remembers you—even if you don’t notice. 🏙️
Every street, building, and park holds stories of the past, shaping how we live and connect today. From historic theaters to corner shops, urban memory surrounds us.

Read more: https://wp.me/p2M8ej-1JO

#SenseOfPlace #UrbanDesign #Architecture

The Small Isles under setting winter sun from Portuairk, West Ardnamurchan.

“The land here does not shout its strength; it holds it quietly, like stone cupping the weight of centuries.”

Revisit Elemental the intro, the first in the Elemental series, as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

#Ardnamurchan #Earth #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace

Camera: LOMO LC-A+ #filmexperiments #streetfilm #japanstreetphotography
#foundbeauty #senseofplace
#everydaydetails #urbanpoetry #filmphotography #35mmfilm #analoguephotography #shootfilmstaybroke
#filmcommunity #filmgrain
#nostalgicvibes #moodygrams
#storyteller #quietmoments #everydayjapan

Achateny, West Ardnamurchan. Towards a snow capped Rum Cuillins and the Isle of Eigg.

“Achadh an Teine….. field of fire. Say it and the grass warms.”

Gaelic names glow like embers, carrying centuries of memory across the moor.

👉 Explore the essay / part 19 of Spiorad aird nam Murchan:

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11...

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Fire #SenseOfPlace

'All Souls Day' watercolour, gesso, sepia ink
26 x 32cm
#AllSoulsDay #landscape #watercolour #SenseOfPlace #woodland #AncientPlaces #countryside #HabitatLoss #ClimateCrisis

Ann Arbor, MI 10/23/25 #Forestfriday #Photography #Autumn #SenseofPlace

Daily walks to capture the upward glance - mostly magpies, but also corvids & parrots #senseofplace

Original photos colourised with Procreate