New Year's Day 2009
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It was icy in the north of the Union, mostly cold but dull elsewhere, blue skies were very rare.
I've arranged my selection from the images in more or less (map) north to south order, and added a brief description where there was none.
1 south of Durness
Pegmatite intrusions within the Lewisian Gneiss, reflecting 'Laxfordian' deformation and resultant injection of molten material.
by Uamhair
Looking West with Kirtomy Bay in the middle ground and Farr Point in the background.
by Mike Dodman
One of a few buildings alongside the long track from Loch More to The Glutt and beyond to Braemore Lodge.
by Calum McRoberts
Not much land in this square but this composition caught my eye as I tried to negotiate the fence/cliff combination!
by Donald Lawson
Two crofts with no houses growing reasonable grass which will probably be cut for haylage. If there are stock associated with these two holdings they are probably away on the community grazing.
by John Haynes
Long shadows on the beach, even at midday at this latitude. Shadows, plus the blue reflection on the wet sand, indicate sunshine.
Looking north-east towards Gairloch
by Becky Williamson
On a cold first day of 2009. Compare with NG4670 : Lochan nan Dùnan and NG4670 : Lochan nan Dùnan.
by Dave Fergusson
New Year's Day 2009. Dreich, dull, damp and drizzly in Duff Street. In addition there was sheet ice on some of the road and pavement surfaces. Not a day for being out and about.
by Anne Burgess
Sornaichean Coir' Fhinn are the stones that supported Fingal's cooking pot in which whole deer were cooked over a fire.
The houses on the far side of Loch Snizort Beag are in Aird Bernisdale.
The houses on the far side of Loch Snizort Beag are in Aird Bernisdale.
by John Allan
The forest in question covers Glen Tungadal, behind the camera. The view is hard to see because of the sunshine. The peaks of The Cuillins are visible in the left background.
Former hotel at Conchra viewed from Bundalloch across Loch Long.
by Callum Black
Jack Russell on the frozen Loch Dubh after days of sub zero temperatures - it would have been safe for the photographer to walk at the edge of the Loch too.
by Adam Ward
Ice and frost outline the bridge on a cold winter's day. The bridge is almost 300 years old.
by Robert Struthers
Boggy sections of this rough track on the north side of Carn na Guaille have frozen solid after a week of hard frost.
by Dorothy Carse
The whole loch was covered in ice, of various thicknesses, on a day with an overcast sky and mist swirling around, making everything appear grey.
by Andrew Spenceley
The railway from Fort William stopped at Fort Augustus. A steamer then provided a service up the loch.
by djmacpherson
There are sinister blue blobs on the map and an uncomfortable lack of contours in the area. Fortunately the bogs that this signifies were frozen.
by Richard Webb
The first sight I got of the water of Loch Ness in a week due to extensive fog over any body of water in the Great Glen caused by severe frost.
by Sarah McGuire
Looking down Leana Mhor's ridge towards Brunachan.
by Colin Kinnear
Much evidence of recent heavy rain in this set of images.
A lovely looking cottage just up-river from Loch Doilet. It's labelled Stagg Cottage on the 1:25000 OS map, but the same map says it sits next to Loch "Doilean", so who can tell?
by Richard Laybourne
Frosted bales and ploughed fields beside the Isla.
by Mike Pennington
Ironharrow well is next to the shelter in a roofed enclosure.
Glamis Angus adds - It's a lunch hut for shooting parties. This hut has a division by means of which the landed gentry could be separated from the beaters. This hut has graffiti inscribed therein reputed to go back to between the wars.
Glamis Angus adds - It's a lunch hut for shooting parties. This hut has a division by means of which the landed gentry could be separated from the beaters. This hut has graffiti inscribed therein reputed to go back to between the wars.
by Dan
A derelict farm cottage with superb views over Loch of Butterstone and Loch of Lowes.
by Russel Wills
The lochan is an artificial pond. Creag Each on the right, Torlum Hill in the distance.
by Dr Richard Murray
An isolated property near the entrance to Loch Feochan.
This cup- and ring-marked surface lies adjacent to the line of the original track up the hill from Ford.
by Patrick Mackie
A somewhat murky sunset, reflected in Gare Lock. Taken from the Three Lochs Way above Garelochhead.
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