Diarmid Weir Photography

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Orkney Islands

Genres: Colour, Landscape, Seascape Places: Orkney Islands, Scotland

The Orkney Archipelago lies north of the Scottish mainland and has been occupied by humans for at least 6000 years.

Derelict stone barn at Clestrain, Orkney Islands. OR001

Stones of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Islands. OR002

Boats pulled up at the side of the Loch of Harray, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR003

The Point of Buckquoy, near Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR004

Cattle grazing on farmland near Twatt, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR005

Palm tree growing in a garden in Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR006

Boulders at Rackwick Bay, Hoy, Orkney Islands OR007

Rackwick from the slopes of Moor Fea, Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR008

Rackwick from the Old Man path, Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR009

The Old Man of Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR010

Rock formation at the Brough of Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR011

Marwick Head and the Kitchener Memorial, from the Brough of Birsay, Orkney Islands. OR012

The Stevenson lighthouse on the Brough of Birsay, Orkney Islands. OR013

The Point of Buckquoy, near Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR014

Sunset view across the Loch of Harray toward Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR015

Dusk view across the Loch of Harray toward Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR016

Wooden piles and beached boat between Burray and Glimps Holm, Orkney Islands. OR017

The hills of Orphir on the Mainland and of Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR018

Rough seas at the cliffs of Deerness, Orkney Islands. OR019

Rough seas around a sea stack at Deerness, Orkney Islands. OR020

On the road from Kirkwall to Houton and Stromness in the Orkney Islands. OR021

Rainbow over Eynhallow Sound from Evie, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR022

Brough of Birsay, from above Northside, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR023

Derelict farmhouse, Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Islands. OR024

Ring of Brodgar and Loch of Harray, Mainland, Orkney OR025

Part of the Ring of Brodgar neolithic stone circle, Mainland, Orkney OR026

Dusk view across Hoxa Sound from South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands. OR027

The sea breaking on rocks at Mid Howe, Rousay, Orkney Islands OR028

Lobster creels and buoys on a slipway in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. OR029

Dramatic weather over Scapa Flow and the island of Hoy, Orkney Islands. OR030

Dramatic weather over Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth OR031

The Ring of Brodgar neolithic stone circle, Mainland, Orkney OR032

Tractor and fishing boat at Birsay, Mainland, Orkney Islands OR033