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Spiorad àird nam Murchan
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A single image post from a woodland that holds a special hush; Ariundle ancient oak woods, Strontian, Sunart. #ThickTrunkTuesday

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#Photography #Woodland #Trees #Nature #Ancient #Hush #TreeLife #Ariundle #Ent #GhillieDhu #Mood #Forest #Uruisg #AosSidh #Tuesday
Ariundle Hush The hush in Ariundle is not silence but a held breath….. a pause braided through birch and oak, where light drips like honey onto moss. Water moves in sentences too soft for speech, threading silver clauses between stones. Ferns lean inward as if listening, and the air carries a grammar of green: vowels of leaf, consonants of bark. Here, time loosens its grip. The forest does not hurry; it folds you into its syntax, teaches you to read the margins of shadow. Every step is a syllable, every glance a line break. And when the wind turns the page, you understand: the hush is not absence, but presence written in the oldest ink. ____________________________________________________ Some Gaelic woodland lore: Birch – Beith (Gaelic for birch) • Symbolic of purification and rebirth; birch twigs were used at Samhain to cleanse and ward off spirits. • Guardian of the home: its protection extended to threshold and spirit of place. Oak – Cù-na-dair (“oak-guardian”) • Home to Oak-men; protective, sometimes mischievous beings who could appear human or offer enchanted food. • Guardians of wildlife and forest; deeply connected to wisdom and rooted strength. Scots Pine – Giùlan-na-coille (“wood-spine” or pine spirit) • Everlasting and wise; aged “Granny Pines” were named as landmarks and symbols of continuity. Woodland Fairies – Na daoine sìthe (“the fairy folk”) • Gaelic fairies are human-size, powerful beings; part of a vast Otherworld ecosystem, including tree sprites and guardians. • Among them: Lesidhe; woodland tricksters who might lead you astray if you disrespect their realm. References: Ritchie, J. (1920) The Influence of Trees in Scottish Folklore. Scottish Natural Heritage Papers. Green, Miranda (1992) Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art. McNeill, F. Marian (1959) The Silver Bough: Scottish Folklore and Folk-Belief. Glasgow: William MacLellan. Henderson, Lizanne (2016) Scottish Fairy Belief: A History.
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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A heartfelt update on Spiorad Àird nam Murchan.

Why part 21 is paused..... and why the spirit of this work remains unbroken.

Read → www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/12...

#ArdnamurchanSpirit #CreativeProcess #ElementalSeries #SlowArt #PlaceAndBelonging #HeartfeltThanks #TrollsNotWinning
The complexity of the woods, Ariundle Oak Woods, Strontian, Sunart.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Tonight at 8 PM: A heartfelt update on Spiorad Àird nam Murchan.

Why part 21 is paused..... and why the spirit of this work remains unbroken.

Read → www.rkphotographic.com/blog
#ArdnamurchanSpirit #CreativeProcess #ElementalSeries #SlowArt #PlaceAndBelonging #HeartfeltThanks #TrollsNotWinning
Joy & Wonder in the Light - Ariundle Oakwoods, Sunart.
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Thank you so much for all the kind messages of support and that sense of a virtual hug. It was truly needed and I appreciate it more than you’ll know folks x
The River Strontian, Ariundle Oak Wood. Strontian, Sunart.
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Apologies it’s been a quiet day on the creative front and sharing some images etc. The hurtful trolls knocked my confidence and did genuinely upset me, more than I’d realised too.
Especially as the writing is quite a raw and emotional share as it tries to reflect my true passion for the place (1/2)
Ariundle Oak Woods, Strontian. Sunart.
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Have really ‘enjoyed’ reading the ‘literary reviews’ of a couple of Facebook keyboard warriors on my writing today….

I’ll include a couple in the comments below. Writing and getting the confidence to try and finds ones voice and share words is not easy, some folk make you wonder if it’s worth it!
Ariundle Oak Woods, Sunart.
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“Silence here is not absence but grammar: the syntax that binds curlew calls, marram whispers, and the soft consonants of Gaelic names.”

Spirit speaks in quiet, and quiet is never empty.

Spiorad aird nam Murchan Pt.20 / Elemental V - Spirit

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#DeepTime #Place
Ariundle Oak Woodland, Sunart.
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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“Weather here is a dramaturge: veils of rain drawn & undrawn, light rehearsing amber lines across Ben Hiant.”

Spirit is choreographed by cloud & tide. Every day a new script, every hour a revision.

Spiorad aird nam Murchan Pt.20/Elemental V - Spirit

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Sanna, West Ardnamurchan from Portuairk.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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“I came as a geographer, stayed as a pilgrim. The land wrote me before I learned its language.”

The first time the road narrowed and the sea widened, Ardnamurchan began its quiet work.

Spirit starts in arrival — and deepens in return.

Pt.20 / Spirit

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The Strontian River, Sunart.
December 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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It’s here: Spiorad Àird nam Murchan – Elemental V: Spirit is out now!

“Spirit is not an idea but a texture: gneiss cold under my hand, indigo pooling in the Sound.”

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#ArdnamurchanSpirit #ElementalSeries #SlowArt #PlaceAndBelonging
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Tonight 8 PM: Spiorad Àird nam Murchan – Elemental V: Spirit.

“Spirit does not adorn me; it remakes me. My compass now is elemental, drawn always west, toward the quiet that composes me.”

Read more → www.rkphotographic.com/blog

#ArdnamurchanSpirit #ElementalSeries #SlowArt #PlaceAndBelonging
Ariundle Oak Woods, Sunart.
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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“I touch the sheeted rock and count back sixty million breaths.”

Revisit Elemental IV – Fire as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11/spiorad-ird-nam-murchan--elemental-iv-fire

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Fire #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace
Glenborradale, Ardnamurchan.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Tomorrow 8 PM: Spiorad Àird nam Murchan – Elemental V: Spirit.

“Spirit does not adorn me; it remakes me. My compass now is elemental, drawn always west, toward the quiet that composes me.”

Read more → www.rkphotographic.com/blog

#ArdnamurchanSpirit #ElementalSeries #SlowArt #PlaceAndBelonging
Reflections of light & life - Ariundle, Sunart.
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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“Air here is not absence; it is a sculptor, a voice threading the machair and combing the basalt lips with salt.”

Revisit Elemental III – Air as we prepare for ‘Spirit’ this Sunday 8pm (tomorrow).

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11...

#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Air #SenseOfPlace #DeepTime
Sanna, West Ardnamurchan. Setting sun way out west through the machair grasses.
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Also photographed some in Doncaster too prior to demolition.

I’ve always wanted to photograph / maybe drone photograph the towers at Willington in Derby too, although not sure what the status of these ones are now.
Thorpe Marsh Power Station, Barnby Dunn. Doncaster.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I grew up with Ratcliffe towers on my visual horizon every day, they were strangely comforting. I then moved to Sheffield for Uni and remember the Tinsley towers before demolition.

Have photographed Ratcliffe as part of my 12x12 project (12 photographs, all 12 sec expo, 12x12 format, 12/12/2012).
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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“Water here is not passive; it is a sculptor, a restless artisan carving basalt lips and whispering through machair grass.”

Revisit Elemental II – Water as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

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#Ardnamurchan #ElementalSeries #Water #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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“The land here does not shout its strength; it holds it quietly, like stone cupping the weight of centuries.”

Revisit Elemental I – Earth, the first in the Elemental series, as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

#Ardnamurchan #Earth #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace
Sedge grasses / Loch Grigadale, West Ardnamurchan.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The Scottish river basins map
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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“The land here does not shout its strength; it holds it quietly, like stone cupping the weight of centuries.”

Revisit Elemental the intro, the first in the Elemental series, as we prepare for Spirit this Sunday.

👉 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/10...

#Ardnamurchan #Earth #DeepTime #SenseOfPlace
The Small Isles under setting winter sun from Portuairk, West Ardnamurchan.
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Some match day celebrations for #fsprintmonday
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Taken pitch side for Alfreton Town on a long away day to Merthyr Tydfil. The reds shot into a 2-0 lead only to be put to the sword by a dynamic Merthyr side and a striker giving Haaland a run for his money goals wise in Ricardo Rees.
Ofton celebration as Siya Ligendza makes it 2-0 to the Alfreton before Merthyr blitzed their way to a 6-2 win!
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Last Sundays Spiorad aird nam Murchan piece, part 19, and Elemental IV - Fire.

Part 20 ‘Spirit’, the fundamental building block of my work of the last decade and on going will be released, after a wee pause, this coming Sunday (30th) at 8pm.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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“Fire is not only what made this land; it is what makes us attentive.”

Carry the ember into your own creative practice, what will you kindle?

Pt.19 Spiorad aird nam Murchan | Elemental IV - Fire

👉 Full essay: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11...

#CreativeResponse #DeepTime #VisualStorytelling
Sanna, West Ardnamurchan.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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“I touch the sheeted rock and count back sixty million breaths.”

A single gesture against aeons—what does deep time teach your own craft?

Spiorad aird nam Murchan pt.19 / Elemental IV - Fire

👉 Read the essay: www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/11...

#ElementalSeries #Fire #Ardnamurchan
Loch Caorach, West Ardnamurchan.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Part 20 of Spiorad Àird nam Murchan | Elemental V: Spirit, will now arrive Sunday 30 Nov.

A week’s pause to honour its weight: after a storm of work and a long away day to South Wales (football), I need time to let this piece breathe.

Spirit deserves stillness before the spark.

Apols for pause.
Lochan na Crannaig, West Ardnamurchan.
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM