Our online magazine is now in a brand-new format, giving much more space to its great range of stories and images. There are scenes of Orkney wildlife and journeys to distant places, lives of people past and present, news of green energy developments and projects helping the environment, and a rich store of work by writers and artists and photographers.
Photography By Charles Tait
The Ring of Brodgar: photo Tristan Cameron-Harper
New features include a portrait of photographer Charles Tait, producer of guidebooks for Orkney and elsewhere, and the story of a new development for electric cars: motors in the wheels by the Slovenian company Elaphe. You can read how you can make your garden more friendly for wildlife. For making a journey to Orkney, this is the ideal preparation; or just for sitting back and enjoying sights and sounds on a winter’s night.
Among this year’s Festival programme presentations was a look at direct action being taken by communities around the Highlands and Islands, ranging from planting woodland to developing renewable energy. Dr Bobby Macaulay’s talk on Communities for Climate was the 2021 Grimond Lecture, with an introduction by Magnus Grimond.
Communities can take actions that make a difference, ranging from developing renewable energy schemes to planting woodland, and particularly if they have been able to acquire land of their own to work on.
Frontiers magazine has insights about living in Orkney islands, from a painter's perspective of waves and shore with Bill McArthur in Sanday and Ian Scott in North Ronaldsay to Len Wilson's account of fishing in Graemsay and Martin Gray's stories of Orkney beachcombing, with many others to explore
The Festival featured a new film on the life of the Orkney coast by wildlife photographer Raymond Besant. There were dramatic scenes of the force of the waves, and some scenes of seals with their young.
Award-winning wildlife cameraman and photographer Raymond Besant has been looking into his archive, to bring us some scenes of life along Orkney’s coast and places inland, including some footage not shown before.
Meanwhile we are looking for more feedback on the Festival to help us with our planning for 2022. If you can complete this brief feedback form, we would be very grateful!