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Bob Kerr

@shetbob.bsky.social

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Island life at 60 degrees North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 #Shetland #Photography #FujiFilm #FujiLove #Archery #RNLI #IslandGames #UpHellyAa #SMUHA

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Nov 16

A peace offering to friends 🍫🍬 in this new social space ☺️

No walk up a #Shetland hill is complete without a sweet treat and a rejuvenating coastal view at the top ☺️ #MyFirstSkeet

A chocolate sweet wrapped in foil, held between thumb and finger, held up with a coastal landscape in the background.

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Nielanell @nielanell.bsky.social · Mar 16

Spectacular South Mainland Up Helly Aa (SMUHA) procession and boat burning on Friday night.

The sty above Mail Beach was lit up.

#Shetland #UpHellyAa

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Simon R @artyfartypandabear.bsky.social · Mar 16

#shetland one of my most favourite places that I’ve visited #photography #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #mindfulness #mentalhealth #spacetobreathe

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Mar 15

For the penultimate weekend in the #UpHellyAa season in #Shetland it was glorious weather for the procession of 500 torches and galley burning in Cunningsburgh last night 🔥 And it’s always good to connect with friends in community halls across the South Mainland through the night 🚌🕺🍻🥳 #SMUHA

Viking galley moments before being set alight

Viking galley well alight with crowds standing around watching the flames

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Mar 14

Large and tiny #Shetland seaglass wish bottles added to my Ko-Fi. Smallest is 3cm! Link in bio

Large and small clear bottles filled with seaglass

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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · Feb 15

Out along the beach, and back through the links #Quendale #saturdaymood #Shetland

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Feb 13

I love when sheep pose for the camera #Shetland

A line of brown and black sheep with sea in background and a brown sheep looking at camera

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Feb 15

As the days lengthen, we turn our heads toward Springtime and ahead, the long days of #Shetland in summer 😎

Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’ve been blessed with clear skies day and night this last few days. Tonight we can enjoy this month’s #FullMoon - the #SnowMoon that rose behind #Lerwick Town Hall earlier. Away from the streetlights of town, the bright moonlight spills across the landscape and open sea 😎 #Shetland

February’s full moon - the Snow Moon rising behind Lerwick Town Hall

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · Feb 12

Tonight, Hare would look up to her #SnowMoon contemplating all the new beginnings that were hers for the taking.
By morning, this potential would reveal itself, but for now, there was nothing to do but wait;
gaze upon the Moon and wait for the magic to start.
#MoonGazingHare

Hare gazing at the snow moon. Oil painting

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Feb 11

Shetland pony foals are born in May when we have near constant daylight and the hills are filled with wildflowers. I always wonder how winter must feel for them and imagine they are relieved when the days lengthen and the sun reappears #Shetland

Chestnut shetland pony foals standing in the sun with sea behind

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Matt Bruce @mattjbruce.bsky.social · Jan 1

The sky just exploded with colour above our Shetland house. One of the best displays I've seen. Many colours visible to the naked eye and it was dancing and flowing and changing constantly. Breathtaking! #AuroraBorealis #NorthLights #MirrieDancers #Shetland

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Jan 1

The #NorthernLights are dancing over #Shetland 🤩 Always amazing to see and what a palette of colour tonight 🎨 #MirrieDancers #AuroraBorealis

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Dec 23

Today the wind dropped and I think everyone was glad of the sunshine and stillness #Shetland

Sheep lying down looking at camera with golden sunshine behind

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 23

It’s been a gloriously clear and windless winter day in #Shetland ☀️ With limited daylight, you have to take the chance to savour the low winter sun at midday ☺️ #Lerwick #JimmyPerez #Lifeat60North

Coastal view of Lerwick with low winter sun on the horizon

Coastal view of Lerwick with Bressay in the distance

A view along a footpath look towards the Bressay lighthouse in the distance

The Lodberries - Lerwick, home of the fictional TV detective, Jimmy Perez

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Dec 22

Only a few seconds extra daylight today but what beautiful light it was #Shetland

Image shows beach with golden sunlight reflecting off sea

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Dec 22

Happy winter solstice! As we head into the longest night of the year, may your holidays be filled with warmth and light. 🕯️🌲

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The Kilted Photographer @thekilted.photo · Dec 22

Happy Sunday. Something a little different from me, I think the black and white works with this one :)

#Scotland #Coo #Coosday #VisitScotland #TheKiltedPhotographer #TheKiltedPhoto

🐮💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💛

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 22

Had a walk out today at noon 🕛 and amused myself for a moment by creating possibly the longest shadow of the year? 🤩 At a rough guess, possibly 30 yards long 😯 #Shetland #WinterSolstice #Lifeat60North

Long winter shadow laid out on a road through a Shetland landscape with houses on a hill in the distance

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 21

Seven degrees 😯 At noon today, that’s all the sun rises above the horizon in #Shetland. May the walls of your #broch feel ever warmer with sun rising higher in the months ahead 😎 Happy #WinterSolstice 🌅 #WinterSolstice2024

Sunlight shining through the doorway of a Neolithic stone Broch

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · Dec 20

Walking towards the rainbow #Shetland

Image shows road with rainbow in distance and fields around

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 20

Fading midday light at the museum by Hay’s Dock, Lerwick today. At noon 🕛 in December the sun is barely seven degrees above the horizon and there’s less than six hours of daylight in #Shetland 🌅 #LifeAt60North #WinterSolstice

The sun sets behind a tall building, reflected on
water in the foreground.

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Da Potting Shed @dapottingshed.shetland.social · Dec 14

Plane or made up wreaths available at the shop. Open Sunday 11-5, #Lerwick #Shetland #Christmas

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Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 14

I will miss #StateofHappiness: the characters, the storyline and the historical context 😢🇳🇴 What a watchable series - all three of them 👏 An another emotional finish this evening. I might have something in my eye, again 🤧 #Lykkeland

Bob Kerr @shetbob.bsky.social · Dec 11

For the record… There may be clear skies and low winter sun elsewhere but today #Shetland is the warmest place in the UK 🇬🇧🌡️ 🤗 It’s also the most driech ☔️ though I’m not sure the @metoffice.bsky.social keeps records of ‘dreichness’ 💦☺️