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Chris Swan

@christopherswan

Photographer, author, landscape architect. Never seen a whale. www.christopherswan.co.uk

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It’s nice to see other people’s images but Bluesky is just another online place my work can be ignored. Really doubt it’s worth the time spent on it, and that goes for instagram, twitter, facebook and any other social media. 2026 is about real life for me.

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Remember that time when folk had that wee 3D gallery you could look around and see the NFTs they’d bought 😂 Is that still a thing?

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Great to contribute to this. Trees for Life do incredible work in restoring Scotland’s Caledonian forest.

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I named the island Ealabhaigh.

I don’t belong to a place in the Hebrides, so I’ve created my own. This ongoing series is how I imagine it. Impressions of an island that only I have seen. Memories of a place I’ve never been to.

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When I was deep in the midst of my Hebrides books I’d dream of the islands. A recurring dream of one island in particular. It wasn’t an actual island, or even a place on a specific island. But I always knew that in the dream it was the same distant island.

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Beautiful Shambles | Opens Tomorrow 5pm | The Glue Factory | Glasgow | RSVP In Bio

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The Inner Hebrides - Top Ten Locations The finest places to visit in The Inner Hebrides

christopherswanphotography.substack.com/p/the-inner-...

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Fantastic image

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Beautiful Shambles - Group Art Exhibition | ARTSVP Book for Beautiful Shambles - Group Art Exhibition by Beautiful Shambles

Private View
Friday 28th November, 5 pm to 10 pm (RSVP required)
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Open Hours
Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th November, 11 am to 5 pm

Venue
The Glue Factory
22 Farnell Street
Glasgow G4 9SE

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Christopher Swan Photography-Blog - news, trip reports, photography, reviews, announcements and projects. -Beautiful Shambles - Group Art Exhibition - Glasgow Beautiful Shambles - A Visual Love Letter to Glasgow 28th – 30th November 2025 Private View Friday 28th November, 5 pm to 10 pm (RSVP required)

I am absolutely buzzing to announce Beautiful Shambles, a visual love letter to Glasgow with all its character, charm and contradictions. For one weekend, four Scottish artists come together to share what this city means to us, each in our own language of image, colour and place.

01.11.2025 21:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you

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Beach with sand dunes at sunset

Beach with sand dunes at sunset

Findhorn beach

12.05.2025 22:27 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nice one!

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Loch Morlich

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Ayr

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A traffic cone peaks out from beneath flattened blue hoarding with wasteground beyond. On the horizon is the Riverside Museum with the Science Centre Tower and Tall Ship beside it.

A traffic cone peaks out from beneath flattened blue hoarding with wasteground beyond. On the horizon is the Riverside Museum with the Science Centre Tower and Tall Ship beside it.

A path through parkland to a blue lorry next to blue hoarding. Beyond is the Riverside Museum with the Science Centre Tower, Tall Ship and new Govan Bridge.

A path through parkland to a blue lorry next to blue hoarding. Beyond is the Riverside Museum with the Science Centre Tower, Tall Ship and new Govan Bridge.

Blue hoarding boards with a dismal block of student flats peering over the top.

Blue hoarding boards with a dismal block of student flats peering over the top.

Glasgow Harbour

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I live in a very agricultural area with big open fields, so it's always a bit of challenge photographically. Abstracts shapes are one way round it.
#ruralabstracts #abstract #photography #Aberdeenshire 📷

04.02.2025 09:57 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
Colour photograph of a detached stone village in front of a much larger block of flats.

Colour photograph of a detached stone village in front of a much larger block of flats.

Recent wandering...

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Ayr beach. Bleak grey sea and sky. Dogs run past on the sand. A red bench. Empty.

Ayr beach. Bleak grey sea and sky. Dogs run past on the sand. A red bench. Empty.

Ayr

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Thank you!

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Cheers. Yeah, I don’t expect to be winning it!

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Thank you

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Delighted that my books have been nominated for Favourite Scottish Nature Photography Book in the Scottish Nature Photography Awards.

If you would like to vote for them, that would be lovely.

scottishnaturephotographyawards.com/bookvote/

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Close up of birch trees next to a building

Close up of birch trees next to a building

Birch trees next to a building

Birch trees next to a building

Birch trees next to a building

Birch trees next to a building

Birches beside the Riverside Museum, Glasgow

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Ayr

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Thank you

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