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#islands

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Monissa

In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.

St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)

Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)

If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:
bsky.app/profile/islandhopping

A large, flat green-grey body of water. In the foreground is a bank covered with scruffy grass and some grey rocks covered with white lichen. In the background is a long strip of grassland curving around the loch. A huddle of stone buildings are just visible on the far side. Behind them is a blue strip of sea and beyond that, another low island. There are some white dots on the water, which are actually swans but too far away to see.
#Orkney#PapaWestray#Lakes
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Anarko

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️
-THE BITCOIN BORACAY ISLAND LIFE-
https://image.nostr.build/5e623540add5c30ccf00907463c3bdb1e42ed0ffed84b6e9e39f779c1ae8791d.jpg
Francesco Queirolo’s Masterpiece: Carving the Impossible in Marble.

In the 18th century, Italian sculptor Francesco Queirolo created Il Disinganno (The Release from Deception), a breathtaking marble sculpture housed in the Sansevero Chapel in Naples. The piece depicts a man struggling to free himself from an intricately carved net—an astonishing feat of craftsmanship, considering both the figure and the net were sculpted from a single block of marble.

Queirolo's mastery of stone defied expectations, achieving a level of detail so precise that the net appears almost weightless. His work remains one of the most technically challenging and visually stunning sculptures in art history.

Fine Art Prints & Originals: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jason-padgett

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jasonquantum1?si=5AzhOIZrG_s0DRfh

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jason.padgett81


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Wen

The islands putting the brakes on the rural exodus of Scottish youth

A great article (for people outside the islands who may be unaware of the challenges) on the issues and maybe some of the opportunities.

thenational.scot/politics/2501

archive.today/2025.03.16-07463
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Photo: the empty stone dwellings on Hirta, St Kilda - evacuated in 1930 condemned as unsustainable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda%2C_Scotland
#Scotland#Islands#TheNational
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