The Green Isle of the Great Deep

If it rains tomorrow - blame Ruth, originally uploaded by ccgd.

Fun watering in this years vegetables.

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Spring Sunrise Clouds 2007, originally uploaded by ccgd.

Sunrise through the Sutors. It would be cliche is the colours were not so good.....

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Oblivious, originally uploaded by ccgd.

This shot has been used by the Spanish Supermarket chain Eroski to illustrate an article in their on0line magazine about cruise ships.

The trouble is they never asked me first.......

Not sure to be please or grumpy. Currently 65% Grumpy.

It has a creative commons licence, which they have stretched significantly.

Bad

But they have also linked back to my web site.

Good

Mmmm - Confused of Cromarty.

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Magnus in the air, originally uploaded by ccgd.

As a XC racer, air shots are unsual for the lad. However I caught him as he trained at our local track this afternoon, his first weekend home for a month.

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Betty Hourston, originally uploaded by ccgd.

With her Royal Humane Society Medal Plaque - she saved three men when their boat struck a rock a 100 yards from the shore, just behind where this photo was taken.

I'm working on a series of portraits of Cromarty people, as part of a book about the town and it's relationship to the sea, which will be published this summer.

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Ronald at the controls, originally uploaded by ccgd.

I'm working on a series of portraits of Cromarty people, as part of a book about the town and it's relationship to the sea, which will be published this summer.

Here is Ronald Young, one the Cromarty Rose's two skippers.

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Bill Campbell, originally uploaded by ccgd.

I'm working on a series of portraits of Cromarty people, as part of a book about the town and it's relationship to the sea, which will be published this summer.

Here is Bill Campbell, who farms at Newton, standing beside an early 19th Century Carronade which was used as a cattle hitching post.

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Hugh Millers and shadows, originally uploaded by ccgd.

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Ben Wyvis and Cromarty, originally uploaded by ccgd.

The sun setting over the Cromarty Flickr Meet 24/3/07

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Lighthouse, originally uploaded by ccgd.

The setting sun is just behind the Cromarty Lighthouse, providing its only light since it was de-commisioned 16 months ago. Now up for sale at £60K....

According to the Invernes Courier article there may be a number of competing bids for the building, as a holiday house, part of the Aberdeen University Outstation, or an as yet unspecified community use.

I wonder if Nightingale has a right of pre-emption over the building?

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Reflected Cloud, originally uploaded by ccgd.

Low tide, on the sandbar, looking back to Cromarty type shot.

Has a UFO feel....

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Charlie in his new kilt, originally uploaded by ccgd.

He was 21 last week, and home for Easter. Trying on his new kilt outfit and posing in the sitting room.

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and the photographer home from the hill, originally uploaded by ccgd.

Flickrmeet Cromarty 24/3/07 - walking back from the Sutor, with Ben Wyvis in the Background.

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