Alex Boyd
@alexanderboyd.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, academic, PhD. Mountains, Scotland and other such things. Current academic work: Ukraine and the war on the environment. Environmental historian. www.alex-boyd.com (Location: Scotland / Australia) #MDANT
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Alex Boyd
@alexanderboyd.bsky.social
· May 22
Ride for Glen Rosa
Help Alex Boyd raise money to support National Trust for Scotland
www.justgiving.com
Hello all! Myself and two friends are cycling 250 miles along the Caledonian Way this Saturday. We are hoping to fund efforts to replace some of the 15,000 trees lost after a devastating wildfire on Arran in April. If you are able to donate or to share this post it would be hugely appreciated ❤️
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
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Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
I'm honestly terrible at social media. The self-promotion thing seems like an absolute grind these days. Instead I've been writing and spending time with the kid, slowly working on photography projects. The usual. Disgustingly wholesome stuff. You?
August 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I'm honestly terrible at social media. The self-promotion thing seems like an absolute grind these days. Instead I've been writing and spending time with the kid, slowly working on photography projects. The usual. Disgustingly wholesome stuff. You?
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Masha
Маша
From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.
Маша
From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.
August 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Masha
Маша
From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.
Маша
From ‘The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue’.
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A childhood dream come true! My drystone worked featured in the July/August issue of world-renowned Smithsonian Magazine.
I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/my-dryston...
#Scotland #Writing #Culture #History
I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/my-dryston...
#Scotland #Writing #Culture #History
My Drystone Work Featured in The Smithsonian Magazine
I am beyond pleased to share that I am featured in the latest issue of world renowned publication, The Smithsonian Magazine (July/August 2025).
kristiedegaris.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A childhood dream come true! My drystone worked featured in the July/August issue of world-renowned Smithsonian Magazine.
I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/my-dryston...
#Scotland #Writing #Culture #History
I was so proud to show my daughters this article. Click through for link to the online post.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/my-dryston...
#Scotland #Writing #Culture #History
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G. K. Chesterton
June 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." - G. K. Chesterton
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New work: A picture of my friend and fellow photographer Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social taken in London May 2025
“The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “
“The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “
June 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New work: A picture of my friend and fellow photographer Alex Boyd @alexanderboyd.bsky.social taken in London May 2025
“The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “
“The symbol is my clan gesture 'confido' i trust - and the tattoo is from the Hugh MacDiarmid book ' Scottish Eccentrics' “
Hello all! Myself and two friends are cycling 250 miles along the Caledonian Way this Saturday. We are hoping to fund efforts to replace some of the 15,000 trees lost after a devastating wildfire on Arran in April. If you are able to donate or to share this post it would be hugely appreciated ❤️
Ride for Glen Rosa
Help Alex Boyd raise money to support National Trust for Scotland
www.justgiving.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hello all! Myself and two friends are cycling 250 miles along the Caledonian Way this Saturday. We are hoping to fund efforts to replace some of the 15,000 trees lost after a devastating wildfire on Arran in April. If you are able to donate or to share this post it would be hugely appreciated ❤️
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Today at 1pm @alexanderboyd.bsky.social ✨
I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.
May 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Today at 1pm @alexanderboyd.bsky.social ✨
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I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.
April 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I am so excited that @alexanderboyd.bsky.social is coming to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social on the 12th May! He will give the talk 'A Hidden History of Violence', Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square - 1pm to 2:30pm.
I'm currently working through 20 years of photographic work, scanning images that feel like they are from several lifetimes ago. From Scottish mountain tops to burning forests in Australia, I'll slowly start sharing this archive over the coming year. Oh and some new work!
April 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I'm currently working through 20 years of photographic work, scanning images that feel like they are from several lifetimes ago. From Scottish mountain tops to burning forests in Australia, I'll slowly start sharing this archive over the coming year. Oh and some new work!
Today is another reminder of why Universities just aren't suited for people with ADHD. The unrelenting bureaucracy is absolutely crippling when you just want to put pen to paper. It would also help if online forms weren't designed by the most misanthropic members of society.
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Today is another reminder of why Universities just aren't suited for people with ADHD. The unrelenting bureaucracy is absolutely crippling when you just want to put pen to paper. It would also help if online forms weren't designed by the most misanthropic members of society.
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Academics take note.
“Er, my question is really in two parts…”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
April 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Academics take note.
@mikewozniak.bsky.social hello Mike - are you still planning to release a recording of Zusa?
March 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
@mikewozniak.bsky.social hello Mike - are you still planning to release a recording of Zusa?
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Today someone was telling me about the domestic squalor Maggie Smith lived in, all smashed windows and broken doors, and wondering how his various wives put with it, and only afterwards did I realise they had been talking about Mark E Smith.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today someone was telling me about the domestic squalor Maggie Smith lived in, all smashed windows and broken doors, and wondering how his various wives put with it, and only afterwards did I realise they had been talking about Mark E Smith.
I often ironically think of this Wilde quote which possibly anticipates the genre of Nature writing, and the somewhat endless quotations some authors are prone to using:
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
March 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I often ironically think of this Wilde quote which possibly anticipates the genre of Nature writing, and the somewhat endless quotations some authors are prone to using:
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
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Also: North Sea Poets' first Substack - what is poetry *for?
March 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Also: North Sea Poets' first Substack - what is poetry *for?
Inspired by @marcwilson.co.uk
Today:
Sign off paperbacks of Isle of Rust / Hirta books.
Prepare prints for group show in Scotland
Meet collaborators for new exhibition in Australia.
Prepare notes for interviewing Ukrainian photographers
Fight university bureaucracy
#whatdophotographersdoallday
Today:
Sign off paperbacks of Isle of Rust / Hirta books.
Prepare prints for group show in Scotland
Meet collaborators for new exhibition in Australia.
Prepare notes for interviewing Ukrainian photographers
Fight university bureaucracy
#whatdophotographersdoallday
February 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Inspired by @marcwilson.co.uk
Today:
Sign off paperbacks of Isle of Rust / Hirta books.
Prepare prints for group show in Scotland
Meet collaborators for new exhibition in Australia.
Prepare notes for interviewing Ukrainian photographers
Fight university bureaucracy
#whatdophotographersdoallday
Today:
Sign off paperbacks of Isle of Rust / Hirta books.
Prepare prints for group show in Scotland
Meet collaborators for new exhibition in Australia.
Prepare notes for interviewing Ukrainian photographers
Fight university bureaucracy
#whatdophotographersdoallday
Current state of mind. [Still from Down By Law , dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1986]
February 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Current state of mind. [Still from Down By Law , dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1986]
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My book 'Drystone – A Life Rebuilt' is out for pre-order!
If you would like to know how to pre-order, why pre-orders are so important to authors, and why no cover (yet), read on at the link below.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/pre-orders-f...
#Writing #Books #Scotland
If you would like to know how to pre-order, why pre-orders are so important to authors, and why no cover (yet), read on at the link below.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/pre-orders-f...
#Writing #Books #Scotland
Pre-Orders For My Book Are Live—Now We Just Need a Cover
Pre-Orders for My Book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt Are Open! But What About the Cover?
My book, Drystone – A Life Rebuilt, is now available for pre-order! (If you don’t want to read through my chat ...
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My book 'Drystone – A Life Rebuilt' is out for pre-order!
If you would like to know how to pre-order, why pre-orders are so important to authors, and why no cover (yet), read on at the link below.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/pre-orders-f...
#Writing #Books #Scotland
If you would like to know how to pre-order, why pre-orders are so important to authors, and why no cover (yet), read on at the link below.
kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/pre-orders-f...
#Writing #Books #Scotland
I've been keeping a diary here in Western Australia, and it's increasingly a catalogue of very strange happenings. Saturday's entry included spending several hours guiding the police through the bush in the dark to the edge of a quarry. Thankfully a happy ending. Life is stranger than fiction.
February 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I've been keeping a diary here in Western Australia, and it's increasingly a catalogue of very strange happenings. Saturday's entry included spending several hours guiding the police through the bush in the dark to the edge of a quarry. Thankfully a happy ending. Life is stranger than fiction.
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Clydebuilt - Great to have had the new zines featured recently in #Glasgow media. This coming Saturday they get featured in arts section of national bradsheet. Had great interview this morning about them. Exciting to get the work out there. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2488632... #shipbuilding
'Forgotten' shipyard photos give rare glimpse into Glasgow's River Clyde history
NEVER-before-seen photos that give a rare glimpse behind the scenes of Glasgow’s shipyards have been published this week.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Clydebuilt - Great to have had the new zines featured recently in #Glasgow media. This coming Saturday they get featured in arts section of national bradsheet. Had great interview this morning about them. Exciting to get the work out there. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2488632... #shipbuilding
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Another book you need to see — @alexanderboyd.bsky.social's "The Point Of The Deliverance" is a staggering body of work. I'm biased: I'm a fan of Alex's photography and I love these pictures. Landscape folks, you'll dig this. Buy this book!
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I don't always agree with art awards, but Charlotte Prodger winning the Turner Prize for her work BRIDGIT was so well deserved. I've been thinking about it again recently.
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Reminded of the art-archaeology genius of Charlotte Prodger on this grey cold Friday morning by the brilliant @alexanderboyd.bsky.social! Watch it, hold on to it, it’s important!!
Reminded of the art-archaeology genius of Charlotte Prodger on this grey cold Friday morning by the brilliant @alexanderboyd.bsky.social! Watch it, hold on to it, it’s important!!
Charlotte Prodger, BRIDGIT, 2016 - excerpt
Single-channel HD video 1min46sec excerpt (Duration of entire piece: 32min)
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February 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I don't always agree with art awards, but Charlotte Prodger winning the Turner Prize for her work BRIDGIT was so well deserved. I've been thinking about it again recently.
I've been quiet on here for the last month, but I have been out and about working - experimenting with new film, field development and starting a longer term project. I'm hopeful that 2025 will be a creative year.
February 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I've been quiet on here for the last month, but I have been out and about working - experimenting with new film, field development and starting a longer term project. I'm hopeful that 2025 will be a creative year.