Orkney: Fifteen textures

Fifteen textures collected on a two-day journey across Mainland, Orkney

Above: Study of rock sheets outcropping in the intertidal zone near Warebeth Bay, Stromness, Orkney (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

Above: Study of the roof texture of a World War Two searchlight emplacement near Links Battery, Stromness, Orkney (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

Above: Texture study of pebble texture found near the high tide line along the coast between Warebeth and Stromness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, 2019)

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Above: Texture study of fossil ripples found in flagstone beds on the foreshore near Stromness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson 2019)

Above: Texture study of a concrete and metal structure along the coast near Stromness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

Above: Texture study of a finely laminated flagstone cliff between Warebeth Bay and Stomness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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Above: Texture study of a section of sea defence along the coast between Warebeth and Stromness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

 

Above: Texture study of a dry stone wall along the coast near Stromness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, 2019)

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Above: Texture study of the weathered wooden door of the RNLI's first boathouse in Stromness, constructed in 1867 (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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Above: Texture study of a section of stone walling at the 16th century Earl's Palace, Birsay, Orkney (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, 2019)

Above: Study of beach pebble texture on the shoreline near the Neolithic sites of Skara Brae, Skaill Bay (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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Above: Texture study of one of the standing stones at the Neolithic stone circle, the Stones of Stenness (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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Above: Texture study of rippled sand, Waulkmill Bay (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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Above: Texture study of a section of dry stone walling within the chamber of the Neolithic chambered cairn of Cuween Hill (Photogrammetry: Aaron Watson, September 2019)

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