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Canon EOS 5D Mark II | f/11 | 1/60 | 090910

Carloway Broch

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

f/6.3

1/160

090710–extremely windy today…tripod blew over at Callanish

The Broch at Carloway formed with two concentric walls – is the best presrved broch in The Western Isles. Dating from the Iron Age, it has actualy seen occupants over the centuries. Brochs were built as defensive residences for either important tribal leaders and their families, or for a really important member of the community at that time. Brochs were drystone circular buildings, formed by two concentric walls – fastened together with flags at varying heights – galleries were formed in the interspace, connected by stairs. There were no openings in the wall, except a low door at the entrance to a passage to the inner court which was open to the sky – usually there was a guard cell in this passage.

It isnt know exactly how long the Carloway Broch was in use, however it is known that it was in use in the 1500's. Originally, the walls might have been about 13 m (43 ft) high. The broch's double wall is well preserved, showing how tiers of galleries were linked by a stone staircase within the hollow wall.

a place of palpable manna

5616×3744 (original)

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

f/11

1/100

090710

a place of palpable manna

The Callanish "standing stones" (site 1…taken today at Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides)

Actor Brian Cox

Oxford University

Brian Cox gave a half-hour talk about acting for the British American Drama Academy at Oxford where my wife Susan was enrolled. His lecture was remarkable for its levels of inspiration and humility. (That summer she, Rosalinda Perron, and Asta Hansen-Nelson–also enrolled in BADA then–determined to produce a film together. They finally did so last summer, and we will go to the Poppy Jasper Short Film Fest (thanks, Rosalinda!) to see it featured in November.)