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Foreshore photography

A ewe gathers her three lambs to her, they form a triangle.

Fank ewe

Blaeu map with Stone Built places overlaid

Mapping Moberg

Nature patterns

Portrait of Gunnie in t-shirt with slogan 'Greenpeac Save the seals'

Outstanding

A figure strides betwen two sections of a shipwrecked boat, he is dwarfed by its size. People gather to look at the debris, the white stripe of the boats hull leads you into the sentre of the image.

Dangerous shores

A finely dressed woman looks down at her tethered cow who sniffs her foot, black and white photograph taken using flash so that the couple appear out of the black.

Mary and Buttercup

Display case with Gunnie's cameras, film rolls, print boxes and projector

Closing remarks

This aerial shot of Maeshowe dusted with snow and thrown into 3D by the low winter sun, looks like a limpet clinging to a beach rock.

Walkie Talkie

Running wild

Swans crowd the foreground of a snowy blue scene of the white hills of Hoy

Swan vista

A double exposure of honesty in a vase, the transluscent seed heads creating the outline of the jug's handle.

New leaf

Aerial blacka nd white of Stromness covered in a light dusting of snow. In red pen written in Gunnie's hand 'varat hus' with a big arrow pointing down to 'our house'

God Jul

A man and woman sit in light from the window at the table of tea cups and baking. Behind them a box bed. The photograph is blacka nd white and taken from a high position, perhaps Gunnie was standing on a chair.

Thanks for visiting

Case Closed Exhibition Open

A miniature Faroese village of tiny brightly coloured model houses clings to a rocky mound in a field in Shetland.

Coming to a town near you

A man stands dwarfed by the gigantic fish he has caught. The vast white underside of a halibut takes up more than half of the frame of this portrait.

Catch of the day

An aerial black and white photograph of oat stacks9 sit in two rows, the low sun casts a dark shadow from each stack and they look loke buttons on a military jacket.

Across time

An almost conical island sits mid framne in the sea, rich greebn grass gives a velvet look to the rough isle.

news from here

Between the dark shapes of two houses a flagtone lane leads down to the sea. The narrow opening reveals shore shed's uneven roof and there in the sea a yole, its sail a narrow triangle.

It has to do with space

Orkney shore

Fishing nets dry in the wind on a washing line. A fishing community's version of sheets drying on the line.

More 24

A figure strides betwen two sections of a shipwrecked boat, he is dwarfed by its size. People gather to look at the debris, the white stripe of the boats hull leads you into the sentre of the image.

24 islands 24 hours

A triangle of steel contains red licking flames, the image is construcetd with the black traingle at the bottom of the frame, red yellow dancing flames central and the top of the frame is filled with grey smoke.

Flotta Flare

An island hangs mid frame topped by a small cloud and growing from sea fog. In the foreground seven geese sit and stretch on the grass, between them and the island a clear blue sea.

After Eight

In this black and white aerial photograph, a huge stone X sits like a kiss at the end of a love letter on the rough moorland.

An antidote to indifference

man diving into the harbour, his head hits the water and it looks like he is standing on his head

Hanging from the Earth

delicate cream flowers sway ghostily in this double exposure image. The image shows the artist's notes about the photograph including framing instructions.

Gunnie in her garden

Tight white buds scurry across the image over straps of variated long belts of leaves

Beach cove meets Beechgrove

Ceremony

Cover of the book Stone built

Stone Built Rebuilt

Shapes spread out on wired boards, sheep skins curing in the wind, propped up against a building. One brown sheepskin on a wooden frame pulls the attention, beside the white ones it looks liek a bearskin.

Hanging out in Shetland

They keep coming

An actress on stage in a rocking chair screaming and hands clasping the chair arm and back, she shows fear in her face. The costume looks early 20th century

Festival Open Day

Duncan McLean and Irvine Welsh lean into each other arms over shoulders

Young guns

In this black and white image the shapes are solid black shadows creating the space between and under things, broken walls and arches.

Go West

In a dressing room a photograph taken in the mirrow shows a woman in a opwdered wig, mouth open in converstaion with someone that the mirror can't see.

So many interesting people

A tufted sand dune reaches up to a clouded blue sky

Every picture a story

With the only light coming from a window, a man bends over a manuscript with his red pencil. In a stoneware jar on his desk some red flowers. The image is just these elements: man, pencil, flowers, window light.

Step forward

A lush green field, in it lie kye, two of the cows turn towards each other apparently in conversation.

Conversation of cows

Aerial photograph showing a mosaic of refuse at a dump, curving round the bootiom of the frame is a road with a lorry on it.

Ten from box six

Cover of Gunnie's raven journal with drawing of ravens in flight on left hand side against marbled blue background

Ravens waited for me

aerial image in black and white of a landscape of fields beside the sea, one field catches the eye, it has been harvested in a cross, the effect is suggestive of a giant st andrews flag

A found kiss

Rich golden stooks of oats are being gathered in by a woman in a blue head scarf and dress, behind her a man assists her with her old fashioned harvesting by hand.

Harvesting names

An archaeologist peers into a stone box with an open urn in one corner, the pit he stands in is above his shouldre height and is lined with stonework. Across the cist lie planks leading you into the photograph.

Unearthed

A man leans forward held up by the wind, his jacket fills with wind and his shape echoes the Hoy hills behind. The image is dark and storm clouds gather.

Photographing the wind

A shed is encrusted with shells in repeated patterns. Scallop shells give bold rectangular frames and a central circular design. In the house's only window hang three tiny lifebelts.

From Hamnavoe to Holyrood

A dark sky broods over a field of ripening barley, a fencepost in the foreground is clustered about by red clover.

Response

A group of people gather in a Stromness Street to catch up. A young man in flares turns to look at the camera and an older man peeks from behind his wife to smile

Looking back at you

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