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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 6h

We now only have one single space remaining across our Ardnamurchan Creative Retreat dates available for the remainder of 2025 and the whole of 2026.

Join for autumn 2026 for an inspirational week photographing Scotlands remote peninsula of fire and ice.

www.rkphotographic.com/ardnamurchan...

Glenborradale ancient Caledonian rain forest, Ardnamurchan.

Autumn ferns and vibrant light, West Ardnamurchan.

Portuairk to the Small Isles, West Ardnamurchan.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 6h

Will look forward to it.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 7h

It certainly gives a really expansive feel to the images.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 19h

“Bourblaige belonged to its people—in the sense of dùthchas, the inherited right to live and work one’s native ground. The Clearances set dùthchas against the commercial logic of estates.”

Part 14 in my writing & photography series:

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

#Duthchas #Community

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 11h

Oh the fold out page looks superb 👀

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 11h

I've received a small set of advance copies of ‘The Edge of Ruin’. Excited that I will have some copies to show at BOP Bristol this weekend.
Opening the box is so nerve racking, but I’m so happy with the job that the printers & binders have done. Exactly as myself and @wayneford.co.uk envisioned it.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 11h

.... do people prefer the blog posts / writing / photography essays that are routed in a 'place'? are these two more abstract or is it something else?

Personally, I am really proud of these two and the wider conceptual nature of their subject matter and approach. Maybe these are slower burners?

Ardnamurchan Point Lighthouse / Taigh Solais

West Ardnamurchan - close to the official most westerly point of mainland Britain at Corrachadh Mòr.

RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 11h

So, just looking for a little feedback to help me understand some stats / data on my blog.
Pretty all posts in my 'Spiorad aird nam Murchan' series have done well engagement wise, two seems to have lower numbers:

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/...

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www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/...
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Spiorad Àird nam Murchan: The Sound of Ardnamurchan

Explore the spirit of Ardnamurchan through its land, sea, silence, and soundscape —an immersive journey into Scotland’s wild western edge

www.rkphotographic.com

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 13h

A very honest and open read, stay strong and keep pushing.

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Hinterlands @intothehinterlands.co.uk · 14h

Ive written some thoughts on landscapes and half marathons. Because why the hell not. Please give it a post with a repost if you like it.

open.substack.com/pub/intotheh...

Half Marathons and Indifferent Landscapes

I’m travelling up to Manchester today.

open.substack.com

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 18h

NEW! Episode 283 - Night trees of Boggle Hole (sleep safe)

Up the beach from Robin Hood's Bay to the Youth Hostel. A perfect location. No road noise, no planes.

Here's our first episode from this special place. Just the sounds of the trees at night.

bit.ly/LenBog

#FingerpostFriday

wooden fingerpost sign at night on the beach. Pointing inland along the Cleveland Way to Robin Hood's Bay and Boggle Hole YHA.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 18h

That’s a real beauty Steve, lovely time to be up and out.

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Steve Batch @stevebatch.bsky.social · 18h

Twin Oaks sunrise this morning 10th October 2025
#Scape #Sunrise #Dawn #Oak

One of my go to places to watch the sunrise - twin Oak trees in a recently planted farmers field in Southam Warwickshire. The foreground is inn heavy shadow with the green green shoots of a recently planted crop just visible. The Twin Oaks are just to the right of the centre of the image and the tops of the trees sit just beklow the middle of the image. A line of mist sits behind the Oak trees and other trees that are further away can be seen in and above the mist. Above these trees the sky changes from grey through orange, yellow, pink to blue at the top of the image. A thin line ofred clouds crosses the image just above the tops of the Oak trees and the reflected light from the clouds givinga pink tinge to the mist.

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 19h

On the blog today - my thoughts on the marvellous "Ring the Hill" by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

“There is nothing like climbing hills for perspective.” #ringthehill

Books can arrive in your line of sight and at your house in so many unusual ways, and that’s certainly the case of “Ring the Hill” by Tom Cox (first published in 2019). I was awar…

kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 19h

Ah yes you can see that influence in his personal work. Love how he handles black and white, leaning towards the shadow tonalist really imbues a sense of atmosphere and presence.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 19h

“Bourblaige belonged to its people—in the sense of dùthchas, the inherited right to live and work one’s native ground. The Clearances set dùthchas against the commercial logic of estates.”

Part 14 in my writing & photography series:

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

#Duthchas #Community

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 20h

A truly wonderful eye and master of light.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

Somerset saved my sanity. Don McCullin at 90 in pictures.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/09/somerset-saved-my-sanity-don-mccullin-at-90-in-pictures

‘Somerset saved my sanity’: Don McCullin at 90 – in pictures

Don McCullin spent decades photographing war and carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and l...

www.theguardian.com

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 20h

Monroe, Bardot … and a naughty elephant: iconic portraits – in pictures

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Monroe, Bardot … and a naughty elephant: iconic portraits – in pictures

From an eye-opening shot of David Byrne to footballers from a bygone era, a new exhibition focuses on portraits taken before the digital age

www.theguardian.com

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

“The Clearances are not history here. They are present in the very soil, in the way the land seems to hold its breath. In Bourblaige, the memory of eviction is not a story told—it is a wound felt.”

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

#HighlandClearances #Remembering #SpioradAirdnamMurchan

Bourblaige cleared settlement, West Ardnamurchan.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

Colours is missing from start of previous post 🤦🏻

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

….. are far too important to me to throw away as they shape so much of my connection to and the feel / sense of place.

This is echoed in much of the Gaelic toponymy of place and landscape feature names which have references to colour.

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it comes down to what in / how you connected with the landscape and how it shapes your sense of place?

It’s a very personal thing I feel, for example, and I talked about this extensively in my blog article here www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/... my connection to Ardnamurchan the…..

Spiorad Àird nam Murchan: The Colours of Ardnamurchan

Explore the vivid, shifting colours of Ardnamurchan through expressive writing, seasonal moods, and Gaelic place names—share your reflections too.

www.rkphotographic.com

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Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org · 1d

Just a week until the launch of our beautiful Flow zine...

An eclectic range of strikingly original work from across our diverse community of Dartmoor artists, printmakers and photographers accompanied by the words of Kirsteen McNish.

We're very proud of it.

dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...

A black and white image by Iain Murray of a still, dark pool in a high Dartmoor river - a bank of gravel is highlighted by the weak sun. The landscape beyond is hazy in mist. Some words by Kirsteen McNish appear on the page to the left of the image:

Daylight, a Skylark spirals
its song from gorse to cloud
- a tiny vortex rising like smoke
At night, under a full moon,
the wind sears into skin,
illuminating the flux
Swallowed, swaled,
a cacophony shaken
from an ancient dream

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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 1d

“The Clearances are not history here. They are present in the very soil, in the way the land seems to hold its breath. In Bourblaige, the memory of eviction is not a story told—it is a wound felt.”

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

#HighlandClearances #Remembering #SpioradAirdnamMurchan

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