Alltan Dubh Photography

Sunset on the Cromarty Firth

2012-01-19T15:58:00.002Z

Strathgarve

2012-01-12T19:39:00.002Z

49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011

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49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011

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Vintage Trailing winner at the 49th Scottish ploughing championships 2011 at Tore Ross-Shire was Michael MacKay of West Greenland Farm Castletown Thurso. With is 1929 International 10.20 Michael restored this tractor over twelve years ago after finding at a farm in Wick. The tractor was originally taken to the county when it was new by Michael great great grandfather.

49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011

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Neil MacPhail , Ceili & Tommy, Michael Mayberry

49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011

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Winner of Whole furrow David Duncan Montrose and is two horses left Marty and Tobby

49th Scottish Ploughing Championships 2011

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Richard MacWilliam (Muir of Ord ) with is grandson Callum Matheson (4) Inverness sitting on is Grandads 1940 Fordson M

Richard and Callum with Callums mum Jill dad Robert and sister Eva

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool

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Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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The Jolie Brise is owned, maintained and sailed by the pupils of Dauntsey's School.

Dauntsey's is a leading independent co-educational day and boarding school in the heart of Wiltshire. Unusually for a land-locked school, Dauntsey's has a long association and passion for sailing. The School Sailing Club was founded in 1970 and its association with the Jolie Brise began in 1977.

The world famous gaff pilot cutter was the last boat to carry the Royal Mail under sail and has won the Fastnet Race three times, including the first race in 1925. She has twice been the overall winner of Tall Ships Races, including the Transatlantic Races to the USA and Canada in 2000.

This Summer 2011, Dauntsey's pupils will be joining Jolie Brise to race with the Tall Ships fleet around the west coast of Ireland, through Orkney and the Shetlands to Stavanger in Norway.They will then race on to Halmstad in Sweden followed by an extensive cruise of the Baltic visiting Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Poland

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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MV Isle of Lewis was built at Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow on the Clyde and entered service in 1995. Her crossing time was very impressive – around 2 hours and 45 minutes - at least 45 minutes off the duration of her predecessor, MV Suilven.

The Royal Netherlands Navy has owned a sail training ship, Urania, since 1830. The name comes from Greek mythology where Urania was the muse of astronomy. Her crest represents this with the signs of the zodiac and her motto means ‘vigilance without fear’.

The current Urania is the sixth and was built in 2003/2004. The lines of Urania are based on the lines of the former Urania to a design of Olivier van Meer, but built to the 2004 standrds. She has accommodation for a crew of seventeen and is rigged as a ketech. Urania is used as a training ship for training of midshipmen.

Urania competed in the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009 and won the Firendship Trophy for this race series.

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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The Gloria is the official flagship and sail-training ship of the Colombian Navy, and her home port is Cartagena. Purpose-built in 1968 as a sail-training ship in the Celeya shipyard in Spain, the Gloria is over 56 meters (257ft) long - one of the biggest tall ships still afloat. She is steel-hulled, but there is plenty of polished wood and brass and her four masts and 23 sails give her an appearance of being even older than she is (every step on the ship has the name Gloria embedded in the solid brass escutcheon scuff-plates). Her figurehead, coated in glittering gold-leaf, is called Maria Salud, reputedly after the sculptor's daughter.
The Gloria has a full crew of 176, of whom up to 120 can be cadets. Our guide told us the last voyage, completed just a few months previously, was an anticlockwise circumnavigation of the South American continent via the Panama Canal and the Strait of Magellan; on that occasion the Gloria carried 6 female cadets.

Although from the outside the Gloria appears to be somewhat outdated, once inside the guest will be amazed. The Gloria can motor under her own power with her MAN diesel engine if so required. Computer monitors and electronic navigation instruments are used in the steering room, and air-conditioned coolness is but one surprise awaiting visitors to the officer's mess at the rear. Around the beautifully polished wooden bar, set into glass display cabinets like museum exhibits, are scores of pre-Colombian gold and ceramic artefacts. Since the ship is often invited to Tall Ship regattas around the world, the Colombian Government uses the ship to showcase its history to the foreign dignitaries who step aboard.

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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Wylde Swan Wylde Swan is the world largest topsail schooner, rebuilt in 2010. She will be a potential winner of Tall Ships Races, fitted out as a sail training vessel and crewed by sailors who have been professionally prepared to act as sailing tutors. She is bought, rebuilt and managed by the same team as the Swan fan Makkum. There are also little sloops on deck to sail when it is possible when she is in the harbour or anchoring close to a beach or nice isle.

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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De Gallant was launched in 1916 under the name Jannetje Margaretha in Vlaardingen. She served as a herring lugger in the North Sea until 1936. In 1982 she was used as a cargo vessel by her Danish owner. Then in 1987 she returned to the Netherlands and was fully restored by a teaching and work experience project for youth in Amsterdam.
She now sails in the North Sea, the Baltic and the English Channel as a sail training ship. She is a regular participant of the Tall Ships Races.

The Christian Radich is a 241 foot, 676 ton, full-rigged ship built in 1937 in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1938 she sailed to New York for the World Fair.

In design she has the moderate sail plan of the modern training ship, with a total area of about 11,700 sq. ft., while her hull profile follows that of the traditional sailing ship, although on much finer lines since she carries no cargo other than her own stores and equipment. Her normal complement consists of a captain, three mates, six schoolmasters or instructors, a doctor, engineer, steward, cook and 100 cadets.

Tall Ships 2011 Ullapool Friday 15/07/2011

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The Christian Radich sailed back to Norway late in 1939 and was placed under the control of the Norwegian Navy. She was seized by the Germans at Horten, near Oslo, and was used by them as a submarine depot ship. She was taken to Germany in 1943, and in 1945 she was found by the Allies at Flensburg in a capsized condition and without her masts or equipment. She was towed back to Norway and was rebuilt in the same yard where she was built in 1937.

She resumed her schoolship operations in 1947 and in 1956-1957 she went on a long trans-Atlantic cruise during which the wide-screen Cinerama film "Windjammer" was shot aboard. In the 1970's she also played a leading role in "The Onedin Line" television series.

In 1976 she took part in the American Bicentennial trans-Atlantic Tall Ships Race. After a major refit and accommodation modernization in 1983 she took part in the Quebec Tall Ships Parade in 1984. In 1986 she went to New York Op Sail marking the Centennial and re-dedication of the Statue of Liberty. In 1992 she took part in the Columbus Regatta, and will again be at Sail Amsterdam in 2000.

Karen and John Grant

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The Last Drop

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Up close

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HMS ARK ROYAL

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Daffodils close up

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LNER K4 Class 2-6-0 Steam Locomotive Number 61994 The Great Marquess

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Bute v Caberfeidh Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup updates

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http://www.flickr.com/groups/butesport/

Rogie Falls

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Loch Droma with An Teallach in the background

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Loch Glascarnoch

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New up dates for the School blog

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http://strathbank.blogspot.com/

Gaelic Football Competition Dingwall

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http://scoccer-sevens.blogspot.com/ Link for the rest of Gaelic Football Competition Dingwall

From the past

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The Ladies of the Glen

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Cromarty Firth

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By the sea

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From the hills of Sutherland

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" You looking at me"

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Winter Moon

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Service of Remembrance with the ATC 2405(Dingwall) Sqn

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The War Memorial Garve

HRH The Princess Royal

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Deaf Base in Dingwall

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Katy

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Boys

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Rio in the Black

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Just one drop

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"Red October"

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Sea Scouts at Chanonry Point

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RNLI at sea by Chanonry Point

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Loch Garve 'On the water'

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'Tear Drops'

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'Hairy Ass'

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"what end"

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"Last feast"

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"Tatties" Harvest end" " Hot Rod" "Pins"

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Strathconon Highland Games 2010

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http://strathcononcrack.blogspot.com/

A update with all the photos will be up at the weekend look out for some in the Ross-shire Journal. this week

Bog Cotton

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Chloe Gordon is the Gala Queen this year in Maryburgh 2010

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Socer Sevens at Maryburgh

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http://scoccer-sevens.blogspot.com/

Scottish Air Ambulance Service

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The Air Ambulance lifts a 62 year old man from Garve Hotel to Inverness Hospital as most of the road ambulances where on stand-by for Rock ness

http://www.scottishambulanceservice.co.uk/air_ambulance.htm

Strathpeffer and Dingwall battle it out

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for more Pictures please go to this link

http://caberfeidh.blogspot.com/

Dingwall High Street

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http://the-staggies.blogspot.com/

For photos from the opening of the revamped Dingwall High Street

Pony

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The Staggies

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Hi all the is the link for the pictures from Friday And Sundays street party
www.the-staggies.blogspot.com

" Spring 2010 "

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" Spring" 2010

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"Sand"

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" A burst of pink"

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"A hint of pink"

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" In the pink"

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"A splash of red"

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" With a hint of yellow"

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" A drop of blue"

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"In the black"

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" Ice Princess"

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"Ice Blue"

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Micro

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Happy New Year

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"The Ice Temple"

Pics are from Silver Bridge Garve

Happy Xmas

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"Nuts"

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Black Water River

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"Dinner"

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HM Costguard at Inchnadamph

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Winter Sunrise on Loch Garve

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A Highland waterfall

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At just over 40m high, Plodda Falls may not be in direct competition with Niagara, but they are still pretty impressive, set in the middle of a forest of giant Douglas firs. From the top, there's a lovely view down into the icy, clear water.

What's in your plants and garden ?

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Around the Village

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Wade Bridge at Little Garve + Black Water from Garve Bridge

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Free Travel

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Loch Glascarnoch and Loch Droma

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" The lost Road"

Ford Classic

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More from the Garden

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July

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July

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A wee bit of Colour

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Close up

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Butterfly

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Wildlife

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Black Water River

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Summer

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Summer

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Summer

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Garden in June

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Close-Up

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Sunset

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Garve

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