Colonsay, Scotland
Taken on a day trip from Islay to Colonsay. A walk past Loch Fada to Carnan Eoin (the highest hill on Colonsay) and then back by Kiloran Bay and Beinn nan Gudairean.
A quick look at Balnahard Bay (Colonsay)
My favourite beach!
Recorded on the 16/4/2015
Colonsay time-lapse and bit more. 2017
I shot during a visit to this beautiful Scottish isle just for the hell of it. :o)
Cycle Inner Hebrides - Colonsay
Episode 3 of the Cycle Inner Hebrides series. We cycle to our hostel on Colonsay. Over several days we cycle around the island, visiting the Oronsay sands before leaving the island.
Music:
RiverSound ‘Final Fantasy V The Wander’ -
Isle of Colonsay Highest Point Carnan Eoin Panorama Hebrides Scotland
Summit panorama September 2013
Old Photographs Of Isle Of Colonsay Inner Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Colonsay, Scottish Gaelic: Colbhasa, an island in the Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull. During the 18th century the lairds of the island were Macneils, and included Archibald Macneil. Colonsay House was first built by the Mcneil family in 1722. Colonsay is the ancestral home of Clan Macfie and the Colonsay branch of Clan MacNeil. Little is known of the early history of the Clan Macfie, however, it is certain that the clan served under the Lords of the Isles, descendants of Somerled, who ruled the Hebrides from the 14th century to the late 16th century. Following the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles in the late 15th century, the clan still attached itself to powerful Macdonalds. In the early 17th century the last chief of the clan was executed as Colonsay was lost to the control of a Macdonald. Without a chief of their own to control their home lands the clan was considered a leaderless broken clan . From this point on the Macfies followed the Macdonalds of Islay, though a branch of the clan was dispersed to lands controlled by Clan Cameron In the early 19th century Ewen Macphee became a notorious outlaw, revered and feared by locals and despised by the authorities . Today the modern Clan Macfie is alive with nine associated clan societies located around the world. Donald MacKinnon, was born in 1839 on Colonsay. He was a Celtic scholar, the first elected Professor of Celtic languages, literature, history and antiquities at Edinburgh University, a chair he occupied from 1882 to the year of his death in 1914.
Scotland Travels 2009 Part XI Isle of Colonsay, Standing Stone, Balnahard, Riasg Buidhe
Scotland travels 2009 to Isle of Colonsay with Clan MacFie, the standing stone, hikes across the heather bogs to Riasg Buidhe and Balnahard
Around Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross, Scotland
Filmed on 20th March 2018, where in the world could you find a more tranquil place to make a springtime film. This is Scotland.
Coastrider; Sandwood Bay
A cycle out to Sandwood Bay in Sutherland, NW Scotland, on the SURLY Moonlander fatbike....
A remote beach accessable by a 4 1/2 mile rough track to 1 1/2 miles of white coral sand beach and a turquoise sea with cliffs either side and dunes behind, creating an ampitheatre place of beauty and tranquility...
Song is `Take My Soul` by Thievery Corporation
Walkers crossing Strand from Colonsay to Oronsay, Hebrides Scotland
Sept 2013
**Must only be attempted at low tide, get local advice**
Colonsay Book Festival 2012
A short film by Rachel Hendry charting the first ever Colonsay Book Festival in 2012. Authors include Alexander McCall Smith, James Robertson and Liz Lochhead.
This year's Festival runs from 26-28 April, featuring Ian Rankin, Candia McWilliam, Sara Sheridan, Angus Peter Campbell, Maggie Fergusson, Mairi Hedderwick and Ron Butlin. colonsaybookfestival.org.uk.
Colonsay approach
Landing on Colonsay
Royal Mail vehicle crosses Colonsay Strand to Oronsay Hebrides Scotland
Sept 2013
1/2 Inverness (Achnahaird Bay) 05/ 02/ 2014
Four day visit to inverness area with Eleanor and some friends
Stayed at the Columba hotel in the town.
1/2 Inverness (Achnahaird Bay), 2/2 Inverness (Cairn Gorm).
Colonsay birds
Colonsay birds
6th Feb Timelapse
Looking out over Ardentrive Bay from Oban Marina on the Isle of Kerrera.
Long Bay Beach Panorama
Long Bay Beach Panorama
Message from the skies 2020 - Chapter 5 - Robin Robertson - Ten Thousand Miles of Edge
Message from the skies 2020
Robin Robertson - Ten Thousand Miles of Edge
Nelson Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland
About the creative team
Writer: Robin Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland. After taking degrees in Scotland and Canada he moved to London and a career in publishing. He has written five collections of poetry, selected in Sailing the Forest (2014), and translated Euripides and the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. His narrative poem, The Long Take, won the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction and was the first poem to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Long Take has been optioned for film.
Designers and Filmmakers: Cristina Spiteri and Susanna Murphy of Bright Side Studios, connect the space between art and technology to create powerful human experiences. Together they create rich animated and interactive digital content and are established innovators in the creation of immersive environments. They have a passion for playing with illusion and visual wonderment to weave compelling stories that create emotional connections with their audience.
Composer: Alasdair Roberts is musician of mixed Scottish and German parentage, raised in the Trossachs, resident in Glasgow for a quarter of a century and currently temporarily exiled in London. Primarily a singer, guitarist, composer of new music and interpreter of traditional songs and ballads, he has released several LPs via Chicago-based label Drag City and has toured extensively in Scotland, Europe and beyond. He has collaborated with a diverse range of fellow musicians as well as with film- and theatre-makers, poets, poseurs, painters and puppeteers. His most recent LP The Fiery Margin was released in September 2019.
About this location
On the top of the highest point on Calton Hill, the Nelson Monument stands offering one of the best panoramic views of Edinburgh from its viewing platform. Originally built between 1807-1815 as a tribute to Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, an esteemed British officer in the Royal Navy, for both his role in the victory of the Battle of Trafalgar as well as his death in the same battle, this monument was also often used by ships in the port of Leith and the Firth of Forth to tell time and allow them to set their chronometers. Installed in 1853, a time ball still sits on top of the monument and is raised and lowered manually to mark the time.