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**The Smartphone Photographer** @AverageS@pixelfed.social · 2d

The Smartphone Photographer @AverageS@pixelfed.social

Mountainscape Curves. #mountainroad #atlasmountains #morocco #scenicdrive #highlands #mountainpass #windingroad #landscapephotography #roadtrip #smartphonephotography #photography

A high-angle shot shows a long, winding paved road cutting through a vast, hilly, and mountainous landscape under a partly cloudy sky.

#photography

**MartinTaudio** @MartinTaudio@mastodon.scot · 2d

MartinTaudio @MartinTaudio@mastodon.scot

Cool sunset behind Ben More tonight
#sunset #sunsetphotography #Scotland #Highlands #ScottishHighland

The sun dipping behind hills on the horizon with a bright orange glow

**Fitheach** @fitheach@mstdn.io · 3d

Fitheach @fitheach@mstdn.io

The midgie season has officially started.

#Highlands #Scotland

**Franz Graf** @hikingdude@mastodon.social · 5d

Franz Graf @hikingdude@mastodon.social

Just wanted to share this photo from our vacations in the Scottish #highlands
We have it as a print on the wall as well. I really want to go there again ... just doing some hillwalking - exploring the rugged landscape, the wind in the face ....

yes, that would be fine now ...

Some more #Scotland #photos and stories are on my blog as well: https://www.franzgraf.de/topic/scotland-23/

A serene landscape featuring a path winding through a lush grassy area, flanked by two trees. The dominant colors in the scene are various shades of grey, creating a peaceful and calming atmosphere. The image showcases a beautiful outdoor setting with a clear sky and clouds in the background. The trees, one located in the foreground and the other in the distance, add a touch of wilderness to the scene. The composition highlights the natural beauty of the environment, with mountains visible in the far-off horizon. The overall feeling is one of tranquility and connection with nature.

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography

**Fitheach** @fitheach@mstdn.io · 5d

Fitheach @fitheach@mstdn.io

"For Heaven's sake, darling, put your smelly clogs outside the campervan."

12 hours later...

A pair of clogs left on the grass where a campervan was parked overnight.

#Highlands #Scotland

**ChrisR** @carusb@mastodon.scot · 5d

ChrisR @carusb@mastodon.scot

Fabulous writing as always by Annie O'Gara Worsley (https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/yellow/). She doesn't appear to be on here, used to be on the bird site IIRC. But if you like to celebrate the north west #Highlands of #Scotland and see some wonderful photos on the way, have a look at her blog and stick it in your RSS reader!

Annie O'Garra Worsley · 5dYellowApart from a few spells of wintry showers, the dry and bright weather which began in March continues. Even with an occasional wetting the track to the sea has remained dustily hard. Fire risk is ex…

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · 6d

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

Telling Their Stories: Researching & Writing Highland Lives
17 May, Waterstones Inverness – free

Historians Jennifer Morag Henderson & David Worthington will be chaired by Shona MacLean to discuss their approach to researching and writing about the history of the Highlands and its people

https://www.waterstones.com/events/telling-their-stories-researching-and-writing-highland-lives/inverness

#Scottish #literature #history

**Alexander Reyne** @AlexReyne@pixelfed.social · May 5

May 5

Alexander Reyne @AlexReyne@pixelfed.social

Glenfinnan viaduct with the historic steam train driving over it. #viaduct #train #scotland #steamtrain #highlands #outdoor #photo #glenfinnan #background #gayphoto #uk #britain #art #architecture

#architecture

**Catherine // Iceland Travel** @Icelandicbliss@pixelfed.social · May 5

May 5

Catherine // Iceland Travel @Icelandicbliss@pixelfed.social

Somewhere in the highlands. Almost that time of the year again!

#iceland #highlands #naturephotography #travel #photography

#photography

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**Fitheach** @fitheach@mstdn.io · May 3

May 3

Fitheach @fitheach@mstdn.io

@tkenben
Slightly off-topic.

The company with the contract to maintain one of our major roads is called Bear Scotland. A few years back the road was full of potholes (since repaired). The potholes became known as Bear Traps.

#Highlands #Scotland

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**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · May 1

May 1

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“Fire must be put out and created afresh or it, too, grows old and full of trouble and sin.”

In Neil Gunn’s 1941 novel THE SILVER DARLINGS, set in the post-Clearances Highlands in the early 19th century, a cholera outbreak prompts villagers to kindle a need-fire.

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https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571090419-silver-darlings/

More sparks, obscured by moving dark bodies, and then—flame. A little tongue of flame, dancing flame, whiter than the new moon. Finn could see the congested faces in those newborn wisps of fire, fire paler and brighter than ever he had seen before, dancing in glee like sprites.

The brightness and whiteness seemed a pure miracle and struck the men themselves indeed with awe. All of them, that is, except Rob, who was always matter-of-fact and soon had the gay tongues leaping up inside a ring of close-standing black peat. Then he hitched the iron pot to the crook.

"It beats everything!" said Henry. "From the rubbing of two sticks!"

"You need two things," said Rob practically, "before you can get a third."

They smiled in a benign humour.

"I certainly never saw a birth so pure and innocent before," murmured Callum.

They were in the wonder of mirth beyond laughter. Finn saw the flames dancing on their faces.

"That's the whole thing," Rob nodded. "Fire must be put out and created afresh or it, too, grows old and full of trouble and sin. Did you notice how dark-red, like blood, was the fire over David Sutherland's house?"

Roddie broke the silence by saying, "My mother's father used to do it every year. Then they would make two fires outside and drive the cattle between them."

They all, it seemed, knew something of the same kind, as they sat round the hearth waiting for the kettle to boil. But Rob knew most.

#Scottish #literature #Highlands

**Fitheach** @fitheach@mstdn.io · Apr 28

Apr 28

Fitheach @fitheach@mstdn.io

A monstrous number plate.

Nessie is the affectionate diminutive for the Loch Ness monster.

A black BMW car with the number plate:
NES 51E
which looks like NESSIE.

#LochNess #Highlands #Scotland

**Wen** @Wen@mastodon.scot · Apr 27

Apr 27

Wen @Wen@mastodon.scot

Silent Sunday

A winter walk above Glencoe

Two walkers with axes and helmets walk up from Glencoe, partially snow covered hills in the background with a combination of sun and clouds dappling the mountains.

#SilentSunday #Walking #Glencoe

**Pete Walkden** @petewalkden@mastodon.scot · Apr 26

Apr 26

Pete Walkden @petewalkden@mastodon.scot

Pine Marten

A close encounter from a couple of weeks back. Such a treat to be able to observe these creatures in the wild.

#pinemarten #wildlife #photography

**GM In DM's Clothing** @DMHaikers@dice.camp · Apr 25

Apr 25

GM In DM's Clothing @DMHaikers@dice.camp

Plus, one of the best cloud inversions I've ever seen in person (which, again, deserved a better photographer) #Scotland #Highlands #Nature #Mountains #cloud

In the foreground, rocky terrain as you'd expect to find atop a mountain. Above, perfectly blue skies. Below, what looks like an undulating sea of cloud carrying on as far as the eye can see. In the distance, a range of peaks poke through the cloud looking like a distant island

Another cloud inversion, looking back to a rocky, pointy ridge that seems to descend into the endless cloud sea. Blue sky sits above the cloud uninterrupted to the horizon. Some bright rays of the sun are peeking in to the image pron the top right

**GM In DM's Clothing** @DMHaikers@dice.camp · Apr 25

Apr 25

GM In DM's Clothing @DMHaikers@dice.camp

My phone camera has never been particularly good but very pleased to find the one Ptarmigan in #Scotland that wasn't camera-shy on my walk yesterday!
#nature #wildlife #highlands

**Pete Walkden** @petewalkden@mastodon.scot · Apr 23

Apr 23

Pete Walkden @petewalkden@mastodon.scot

Mountain Hare Video

A few clips of the beautiful mountain hare I spent time watching yesterday, in the Scottish Highlands.

#video #mountainhare #highlands

**Pete Walkden** @petewalkden@mastodon.scot · Apr 22

Apr 22

Pete Walkden @petewalkden@mastodon.scot

Mountain Hare

Having a good scratch today, while enjoying the spring sunshine on the hills of the Scottish Highlands.

#mountainhare #hare #wildlife

**Tiff** @iatetheyeti@pixelfed.social · Apr 22

Apr 22

Tiff @iatetheyeti@pixelfed.social

Took a short break out in the Highlands with some friends and took a total of one photo for the entire week, and this is it! Honestly though, I'm not too upset, I was having a good time regardless.

Taken on an Honor X6b

#nature #naturephotography #landscape #forest #trees #highlands #pine #moss #spring #outdoors #hiking