Secret Handshake

Stones of Stenness

Orkney, UK

June, 1982

Photo: Lisa Hirsch

"The Orkney archipelago possesses a singular aura—luminous, changeable, dreamlike."

Alex Ross, The New Yorker, Nov. 24, 2025

 

Stromness

Stromness, Orkney

June, 1982

 

Kirkwall

Bishop's Palace

Kirkwall, Orkney

June, 1982

 

Stenness

Stones of Stenness, Orkney 

June, 1982

 

Stones of Stennes

Over at The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross has posted a photo of the Stones of Stenness, a Neolithic monument on the island of Orkney. Click the photo to enlarge it, so you can see the Stones of Stennes in their full glory.

I previously posted my own photos from a long-ago trip to Orkney:

• October, 2020
• August, 2019

Friday Photo

Stones of Stenness

Orkney

June, 1982

Photo by Lisa Hirsch

I have the negative and should get a new print made. You can just see the Arctic skua flying off the top of the standing stone.