Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is now available to buy or rent on DVD. The film is currently available in Region 2 (European) format with English, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic and Welsh subtitles.
Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit their mountain-themed photographs to the Banff Centre of Mountain Culture photography competition.
Entry deadline: April 30, 2008
Nice wee film with Alan Hinkes giving the flavour of a winters’ day on the Aonach Eagach.
Highland Print Studio, in collaboration with the Highland Council Exhibitions Unit, is staging an exhibition of original printmaking during Summer 2008. The exhibition will take place from June till October 2008, opening at the Iona Gallery in Kingussie, then touring to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (IMAG), Fergus Gallery, Wick and the Swanson Gallery, Thurso. The private view will take place at IMAG; date TBC.
The aim of the exhibition is to celebrate the diversity of work that can be created via printmaking. Submissions are welcome from artists working in any printmaking technique, or who are using any of those techniques in combination with other media. The exhibition is open to any artist, however priority will be given to artists who have lived or worked in the Highlands.
Please submit up to 3 works for selection by sending either jpegs or photographs of the work, along with a short biog to Alison McMenemy, Studio Manager, Highland Print Studio, 14a Seafield Road, Inverness, IV1 1SG . Electronic submissions can be sent to: info@highlandprintstudio.co.uk
Deadline for Submissions: 5 May 2008 Artists whose work is selected will be notified by: 12 May 2008 For further information on Highland Print Studio visit www.highlandprintstudio.co.uk
Excellent spoof news report on missing climbers in America…
Alpine Exposures are running a Mountain Landscape and climbing Photography competition, a chance for you to show off your best images and have a chance at winning a A3+ fine art print of it.
It’s open to all types of images as long as they are to do with the mountain environment. Every month we will pick our favorite top 5 images that have been submitted over that period and allow you to vote for them over the next week, with the winner receiving an A3+ print of their image through the post.
Every 6 months all the entries will be put into a draw with the winner receiving an A2 limited edition print.
If you want to know what thehighlands.com is all about then the 4 Talent website puts it very well in its feature on what to expect in the coming weeks and months.
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With a growing portfolio of images of the Scottish mountains photographer Richard Cross has launched a new gallery to display the images at a larger size.
New work and images from and the back catalogue will be added over the coming months.
A new national award celebrating long-term contributions to mountain culture has been set up to raise the profile of Mountain Culture within Scotland and beyond. It will celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of one inspiring individual and their outstanding contributions to Scotland’s mountains, encompassing sport, theatre, art, photography, film and literature.
Awarded at the Fort William Mountain Festival the inaugural recipient of the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture, 2008 is Hamish MacInnes: Mountaineer, Mountain Rescue Innovator and Author.
The main screenings of the Dundee Mountain Film Festival were on Saturday at the Bonar Hall. Arrived in good time to take my seat for the morning session which included 5 films taken from the Banff Mountain Film Festival’s World Tour, followed by a presentation from Will Gadd (adventure film maker and one of the judges at Kendal).
The afternoon session saw another 5 films from the Banff World Tour, plus rare some rare footage of Currie boys. Following this came a talk from Slovakian Marko Prezelj, alpenist, photographer and seeker of experiences - once of them being film Cayesh.
Along side the films were 3 exhibitions of images, the best of these were Peter Sandground’s photos of the HMS Gannet - Royal Navy Search and Rescue Team.
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