Lots Highland Gallery

[Ladyofthestorm]

Id just like to share some of my favourite photos I have taken with my rather inexpensive camera. It done me proud over the last three years and owes me nothing. I love sunsets and sunrises and many are taken from the bottom of the croft.

So please enjoy, when Skye is beautiful it is heaven on Earth.

The sunrise over the Bealach Na Ba, taken from our bedroom window looking east.

Next one Ben Na Callich From the Obbe, at Breakish, bottom of our garden! Thats hubby's boat!

A difierent time, a lazy mid summer sunset over the Red Cullins

I am spoilt for choice really!

Looking north towards Raasay and Scalpay.

and another

There are no filters on my camera.. too cheap just an automatic sunset mode...

Look at the colours in this one

The Red Cullins in May

Kyle of Sutherland at Sunset.... taken September 2008

The Beinns first Snow, taken October 2008... what it looks like today

The Obbe, a different sunrise!

Sunset Sonata

Looking North at Mid Summer sunset.

Circle in the sand

The aptly named Summer Isles

[Backtrack]

Wow!

Those pictures are amazing! Congratulations!

Have you considered publishing those into a calendar?

[Coast]

Some fantastic stuff their 'Lots', I've never been myself but this is a great advert and I should make the effort to see some of the stunning views.

[Pennine Ten Foot Drifts]

Agree with all the other comments. What a wonderful place to live.

[in the vale]

Fab photos LOTS, just goes to show that you don't need an expensive camera, the landscape does the work for you. Would you mind giving us a clue whereabouts you are? I have stayed on Skye quite a few times and that area looks vaguely familiar....

Just re-read - saw your location. I have always stayed in the North - a magical island!

[blitzen]

Just beautiful!

[Essan]

Great pictures LOTS! Must be awful having to walk all the way to the bottom of your garden to see views like that

I don't have any photos of Skye 'because last time I was there was so long ago I was taking transparencies ...... I suppose I ought get my slides converted to digital one day!

Have to admit I've never stopped off in Brecais though - always been Cuillin bound (or heading to Raasay)

[irishsnow]

Great photo's Lots

[Ladyofthestorm]

Aww thanks guys!

Ive got more where they came from.

Perhaps one of the mods could be so good as to move the thread to the other more pernament thread, I didnt realise this one was pruned after a while

xx

A summer sunset overLittle Gruinard Bay

Inverewe gardens in full sumer bloom

The Bealach Na Ba, at over 600m high is one of the highest mountain passes in the UK and the one with the steepest ascent..

Liachach, Part of the Torridon Mountains in Summer.

Armadale Castle Bluebells, where we got married.

although not native they are still very pretty

The crofts blossom tree

The Black Cullin... Bla Beinn at Sunset

Every sunset tells a different story

[johnholmes]

your rather inexpensive camera as you call it has certainly done you proud.

A really lovely selection of photos there.

[Ladyofthestorm]

A fujifilm finepix A610. 6.3 mega pix cost me£60

[mountain shadow]

Do you have any showing your more normal weather of horizontal rain?

[Ladyofthestorm]

nope camera gets soaked trying that one! lol

[Snow Cat]

I love sunsets and sunrises and many are taken from the bottom of the croft.

So do I, these are lovely thanks and that first one is a stunner.

[The watcher]

Amazing....have you got a spare room in your house. I could spend the rest of my life investigating the mysteries of the Isle of Skye.

[Ladyofthestorm]

Amazing....have you got a spare room in your house. I could spend the rest of my life investigating the mysteries of the Isle of Skye.

Spare room...lol we just built a new 3 bedroomed house for the four of us and then we decide that we should have twin boy and girl.... I have the byre? lol

Good place for a holiday! Come in May or september when midges arent so bad.

It is an amazing place, and most of it is because of the geology.

[NorthernRab]

Tha an t-eilean Sgitheanach cho breagha, tha gaol agam oirre! Co as a tha thu? A' Ghaidhealtachd no a'Ghalltachd no Sassain?

Edit: Oh agus 's toigh leam do dhealbh cuideachd! Moran taing!!

[Ladyofthestorm]

Lovely Rab, but would you be able to transalet it into English, Im a east coast native not a west coast. Gaelic wasnt fashionable to learn when I was at school.

[NorthernRab]

Tha an t-eilean Sgitheanach cho breagha, tha gaol agam oirre! Co as a tha thu? A' Ghaidhealtachd no a'Ghalltachd no Sassain?

Edit: Oh agus 's toigh leam do dhealbh cuideachd! Moran taing!!

The Isle of Skye is just so beautiful, I love it! Where are you from originally? The Highlands, lowlands or England?

Edit: Oh and I really like your photos too - many thanks

My apologies LOTS, I assumed that you were a Sgitheanach yourself or that like many of those who have moved there you'd learned a little bit of the language - thanks for sharing your photos.

[Ladyofthestorm]

Hi Rab, I come from the east coast of Sutherland, 60 miles north of Inverness orginally Moved over here a few years ago.. Ive never had any notion to learn the language, So many other things to do. Many incomers like to learn the mother tongue because its like a fad or fashion. Not for me though. Thanks for your comments on photos.

[NorthernRab]

Hi Rab, I come from the east coast of Sutherland, 60 miles north of Inverness orginally Moved over here a few years ago.. Ive never had any notion to learn the language, So many other things to do. Many incomers like to learn the mother tongue because its like a fad or fashion. Not for me though. Thanks for your comments on photos.

I would disagree that it's like a fad or fashion, it's ingrained in the culture and makes Skye (and the rest of the Highlands for that matter) what it is. Can't see the increasing trend in more Gaelic learners dying out any time soon - it's important that we have these rights.