#arisaig

1967

Acrylic on board , 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. 31 x 21 cm.

📸 by @damianshieldsdotcom

Camusdarach Sands | Arisaig, Scotland

Mrs Catherine MacDonald spinning at a wheel, watched by granddaughter Peggy, at Kinagarry on the West Coast of Scotland. Grandmother MacDonald is using a simple but strongly-built 'little' or 'Saxony' wheel. This was a static form of spinning, but the ancient mobile form of spinning with a distaff and spindle would still be being used in the late nineteenth century by girls tending the flocks. This photograph was taken by MEM Donaldson around 1905. She was a skilled photographer and specialised in topographical scenes and in portraits of her neighbours at Sanna, of people in Morar and Arisaig, and of the people she met on her travels around rural Scotland. ~ From Stories of Scotland Podcast

Camusdarach Sunrise by Christopher Swan Via Flickr: Camusdarach is one of my favourite beaches. It's got it all - white sand, dunes and a cracking view to Eigg, Rhum and Skye. It was also where the beach scenes from Local Hero were filmed. Despite visiting this beach many times, I've never seen it at sunrise - mainly due to the fact I thought that as it is west facing, it would be a better location for sunset, but also due to laziness - normally I'm here in summer and the early rises are just that bit too early! But yesterday (seems ages ago now) I got up early-ish and headed round. I'm glad I did! It was a lovely morning and I had the beach to myself. The sunrise developed exactly how I hoped it would with the growing colour in sky spreading from the east to pick out the wee clouds drifting over Eigg and Rhum. www.christopherswan.co.uk

Going through our drone footage, I miss when the world was normal.

Latest 150 x 100cm is Eigg and Rum from Morar. #Arisaig #morar #isleofeigg #isleofrum #ontheeasel (at Morar)