Category: The Gallery

  • #TheGallery – Week 95 – Colour

    Tara, over at The Gallery HQ, has set us the theme of “colour” for this week.  Or “color” if you’re from the US and anywhere else that spells English words incorrectly. I enjoy photography. That doesn’t mean I’m any good at it, not by a long stretch of the imagination. I love it that my…

  • The Gallery – Light

    Very lucky up here on Shetland.  Very lucky indeed.  When it’s there, the light is fantastic.  We get the most spectacular sunrises and sunsets, crepuscular rays blasting through the clouds and illuminating sea and land, double-rainbows arcing across the sky.  But one of the best things about Shetland is the lack of light at night.…

  • #TheGallery – Landscapes

    A few miles down the road from my house, on the other side of the island completely, lies the bay of Wester Quarff.  It’s here that the Gulberwick and Quarff Yoal crew train (when the weather’s better).  Nothing better than the near-flat-calm of the bay, the hills towering over you, and 7 people shouting at…