Friday, 28 February 2014

Fancy a Friday Foto Fling?

"What a handsome hill!" I hear you cry.

"I should like to climb it immediately. Where is it?"

The answer readers is we do not know. Upon looking for an elusive Tom Kent copy, I stumbled upon a folder of his photographs entitled simply '?'.

Within is a few photos, like the one above, for which we have no information. Some have guesses on the back such as 'meteorite?' for a photo of a crumbly old stone or 'Egilsay? Octocentenary?' for this one:




Again, there is a guess of Egilsay for this photo of an escapee from some manner of procession:


Other images include what looks like an open-air church meeting, the skeleton of what may be an otter still in the grip of a steel trap, and this:









What is this.


WHAT IS THIS? Best answer receives a Unison stress pig and an item of Orkney Library and Archive merchandise.

2 comments:

  1. I think it's a Chest Burster from the Alien films http://jokerdesigns.com/alienhost/xenomorph/index.html#chestburster

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  2. I think the first photo might be Grut Fea on Hoy - see the tenth photo down on this link: http://www.scottishhills.com/html/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=14135

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