Tag: Orkney
Coffee Saloon?
- Aperture: ƒ/14
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Focal length: 29mm
- ISO: 400
Dr John Rae
Dr John Rae was a prominent Orcadian and surgeon who made his name in Canada. He is noted for learning and adopting the ways of the indigenous Arctic people and using this for cold-climate travel and survival. This combined with his stamina and his ability to live off the land meant that he was able to discover the final link of the North-West Passage.
Pig–Sheep Hybrid …
…well that’s what you might believe if you trusted your tour coach driver for the day on Orkney, but this hairy pig is a Mangalica, or a cross from one. Mangalicas are a Hungarian breed of pig that grows a thick woolly coat which is pretty useful in Orkney!
Now I wonder what other “porkies” we were told?
- Aperture: ƒ/13
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 39mm
- ISO: 1000
Churchill Barrier and Block Ships
Churchill Barrier 3 linking Burray and Glims Holm with stern and separate bow of the Reginald, a iron motor schooner built in 1878 and sunk in 1914.
The sheltered harbour of Scapa Flow surrounded by five of the Orkney Islands was the principle port of the Royal Navy in both World Wars. The block ships were sunk to protect the eastern approaches during World War One. Between the wars the tides moved and broke-up the block ships making them less effective. On the night of the 13th October 1939 a German U-Boat managed to enter Scapa Flow and torpedo HMS Royal Oak. Following the attack Winston Churchill ordered the construction of four causeways to seal the channels, the Churchill Barriers.
- Aperture: ƒ/11
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 54mm
- ISO: 200