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Michael Faint

@ansolasoir.com

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Photos. Birds. Occasional words. . New book 'Orasaigh' out now . Prints here👇 https://www.ansolasoir.com/store

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · Jan 5

The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social

Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

More here 👇
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Orasaigh | An Solas Òir

Orasaigh is a collaboration between poet Steve Ely and photographer Michael Faint, inspired by the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, South Uist The work of the artists combines and inter...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · Aug 4

Uig Storm, 2025

#Skye #Uig
#Storm

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 1d

1776: One swallow.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 23h

Grove IV by Brice Marden, 1976
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137550

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Purchased with funds contributed by the National Endowment for the Arts, in Washington, D.C., a Federal agency; matching funds contributed by Sidney Singer, 1976

© 2016 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 1d

Cnoc Soilleir, 2020.

#otd

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 1d

This photo was the catalyst for my commission to document the Phase 1 build at Cnoc Soilleir. Phase 2 is nearing completion.

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cnoc soilleir | An Solas Òir

An exhibition commissioned by Ceòlas and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.

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Cnoc Soilleir, 2020.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 2d

Salthouse, 2015

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 3d

1776: Numbers of swallows & martins playing about at Faringdon, & settling on the trees. If hirundines hide in rocks & caverns, how do they, while torpid, avoid being eaten by weasels & other vermin?

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Salthouse, 2015

#otd

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 3d

South Uist, 2021

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 3d

Thanks Shona, down by the Ludag slipway.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · Jan 5

Orasaigh | An Solas Òir

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 3d

Thanks Mick 👍

Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 3d

South Uist, 2021

#otd

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Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social · 3d

Art. The alternative to despair.

Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social · Nov 15

"The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light."
~ Seamus Heaney

Towards Another Summer.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 4d

1776: Black snails are more sluggish than in the summer; but in sight all day at this season of the year. Rooks steal wallnuts off the trees. Some wallnut trees naked of leaves. Saw one hornet. When mice eat nuts, they perforate a round hole in the shell: but squirrels split their nuts in halves...

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 5d

Eriskay, 2024

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Eriskay, 2024

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 6d

North Uist, 2022.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 7d

You might want to clear that with the new residents 😉

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 7d

Benbecula, 2021

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 8d

1776: Swallows & martins, before they withdraw, not only forsake houses, but do not frequent the villages at all: so that their intercourse with houses is only for the sake of breeding.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 7d

Benbecula, 2021

#otd

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 9d

1776: Martins, but no swallows. Bat appears.

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