Scottish Field Large Calendar 2024

SCOTTISH FIELD

THE PREMIER SCOTTISH CALENDAR

Lochan na h-Achlaise and Black Mount, Rannoch Moor Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

I came on a cluster of lochs – grey, cold, vagrant lochs –still to some degree in the thrall of frost. John Splendid, Neil Munro

Loch Ard, Stirlingshire Stephen Ball Photography / stephenballphotography.com

I leant upon a coppice gate, When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate, The weakening eye of day. The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy

Loch Duich and the Five Sisters of Kintail mountain reflections, Highland John Bracegirdle / Alamy Stock Photo

Kintail, the original seat of the MacKenzies, or rather McKenneths, from their great ancestor Kenneth, son of Colin Fitzgerald, of the house of Desmond in Ireland.

1772, Thomas Pennant

Forest with bluebells, Perth, Perth and Kinross Westend61 GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo

In and out the dusty bluebells, Who will be my master? Children’s rhyme first recorded in The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by folklorist Alice, Lady Gomme

Fairy Pools in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye TWS / Alamy Stock

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The superstitious opinions of the ancient Highlanders seem to have borrowed their tone, in a great measure, from the nature of the country which they inhabited.

Tour in the Highlands & Western Islands, 1800, Dr John Leyden

Fringe by the Sea festival at North Berwick Harbour, East Lothian Andrew Smith

In the old days all the grain in East Lothian was stored in Berwick, and was shipped south; but the attics are empty now. In Scotland Again, HV Morton

Ceannabeinne Beach on North Coast 500 route in Sutherland Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo

What a wilderness it is, this northern coast of Sutherland! I felt – as I invaded it –more remote from civilization than when I crossed the Sierra Nevada. In Scotland Again, HV Morton

Lachlan Bay, Castle Lachlan and looking up Loch Fyne past Bàrr an Longairt at sunset Neil Barr

‘The herrin’ wass that thick in Loch Fyne in them days,’ recalled the Captain, ‘that you sometimes couldna get your anchor to the ground, and the quality was chust sublime.’ In Highland Harbours with Para Handy, Neil Munro

The Hermitage, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross Margaret S Sweeney

On approaching Dunkeld, the vale becomes narrow: at last leaves only space for the road and the river, which runs between hills covered with hanging woods. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to The Hebrides; 1772, Thomas Pennant

Creag an Duilisg, Plockton Damian Shields Photography

Sweetheart Abbey and magnificent Oak tree, New Abbey, Nithsdale Allan Wright / Alamy Stock Photo

Be thine the Tree whose dauntless boughs Brave summer’s drought and winter’s gloom! Lines On Captain Wogan. To An Oak Tree, Sir Walter Scott

River Etive, Glen Etive, Highland Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

All this is the storied land of Deirdre with the heroes of Ossian and haunted by the bitter-sweet story of Deirdre and The Three Sons of Uisneach. The Land of Lorne, T Ratcliffe Barnett

Enjoy the beauty of Scotland throughout the year, with twelve stunning images from all corners of the country. Brought to you by Scotland’s premier glossy lifestyle magazine Scottish Field.

COVER: Lachlan Bay, Castle Lachlan and looking up Loch Fyne past Bàrr an Longairt at sunset Neil Barr