I’ve borrowed a beautiful book from the library: Hebrides by Peter May with photography by David Wilson.

In the introduction Peter May writes “This is not an official travelogue taking you on a journey around the tourist high points of the Outer Hebrides. It is a highly personalized account of the islands as I experienced them.”.

Both text and imagery are delightful and fit well with an idea I have for a new print project over coming months, the initial title being Remote. The word Abandoned also seems appropriate.

Too hard to choose just one image this week so I’ve restricted myself to two instead – with the bonus of the front cover above.

Boat at Cnip. Further around the loop at Valtos at Cnip, this old fishing boat lies rotting.

Gershader. The remains of curtains still hanging in the window of this abandoned shieling at Gershader, near Stornoway, suggest it might last have seen human habitation in the 1950s.

Resources:
Hebrides, Text by Peter May, Photographs by David Wilson, ISBN 978 1 78206 238 7, 2013, published by Quercus Editions Ltd, 55 Baker St, London.
Images and text from pages 30 and 216