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Print Story Photo Friday: Weaving
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By stark (Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 11:01:18 PM EST) photos, photo of the day, weaving, tweed, lewis (all tags)
Today we have some photos illustrating the weaving done in the living museum of Gearrannan, a formerly inhabited "blackhouse village" on the Isle of Lewis. In this case these houses were occupied until the late sixties. (The name "blackhouse" comes from the difference between the older stone houses and the newer white-painted modern housing.)

The weaver here is creating a tweed cloth - the (relatively) famous Harris Tweed.


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Print Story Photo Thursday: Sea
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By stark (Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 09:43:58 PM EST) photos, photo of the day (all tags)
Another shot taken at the northern-most tip of the Isle of Lewis.

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Print Story Photo Thursday: Gull
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By stark (Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 07:13:39 AM EST) photos, photo of the day, gull, bird (all tags)
Okay, so I think I was pretty lucky with this one. Taken off the northern-most point of Lewis, where the gulls hover in strong updrafts from the wind rushing up the steep cliffs.

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Print Story Photo Tuesday: Shells
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By stark (Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 02:58:30 AM EST) photos, photo of the day (all tags)
Stolen from the beaches on the Isle of Lewis.

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Print Story Photo Friday: Beach
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By stark (Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 12:42:11 AM EST) photos, photo of the day, beach (all tags)
This is a shot of Traigh Losgaintir, a beach on the west coast of the lower half of the Isle of Lewis.

(For some reason, at this point it's actually the Isle of Harris, despite the two areas being the same island...)


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Print Story Attention greyrat infidel
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By stark (Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 12:20:39 PM EST) photos, photo of the day (all tags)
and other folks who enjoy a bit of Photoshop fiddling.

After the break, the original version of the Callanais Stones photo. I hope it might be interesting to compare this with the altered version.


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Print Story Photo Tuesday: Stones
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By stark (Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 03:44:21 AM EST) photos, photo of the day (all tags)
Today's photo is taken on a recent holiday to the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. I'll post a few more over the next week or so.

The subject is the Callanais Standing Stones, an astonishing collection of slabs of rock on a small hill on the west coast of the island. The one in the center is just under five metres tall.


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Print Story Photo Friday: Wet Paint
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By stark (Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 12:08:33 AM EST) photos, photo of the day, wet (all tags)
Unfortunately not taken in Tewkesbury.

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Print Story Photo Wednesday: Ship
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By stark (Tue Jul 24, 2007 at 11:15:38 PM EST) photos, photo of the day, ship (all tags)
Yesterday we had the tackleblock, now we have the entire vessel...

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Print Story Photo Tuesday: Rigging
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By stark (Tue Jul 24, 2007 at 03:27:42 AM EST) (all tags)
There was a ship staying briefly in one of the docks near to where I work, so I went to take some photos.

I use the term rigging to refer to the subject of this photo as I have no idea what the correct terminology is...


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