Life through a lens Clickimin Broch sat atop Clickimin Loch old, new and still in progress North Lerwick Shetland 2 of 2

Clickimin Broch sits atop Clickimin Loch here seen casting bright reflections upon the rippling water creating a shimmering scene. Water for defence of life and water for the continuation of life. Everything drawn in from the land could be guarded and tended to in the stone tower of the broch. Just up the far Westerloch shore new building work is still in progress. Our ancestors built here for protection and for connection to the water. Sometimes we build over our older sites and sometimes we build around them. Here in each of these photographs there are homes from a thousand years apart standing in sight of each other and joined together in reflection as one.

An amazing fortified homestead preserved from the past and still a part of now standing tall and proud with a rebuild. The shape and size of any broch is dictated by the need for it and the ability of the builders. Here there appears to have been an amazing development made for strength and for beauty. Once the tower rose into sky and released the smoking signs of life, now the bright preserved ruin remains as a celebration of earlier ways of living.

© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com

Clickimin Broch
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clickim...

Broch of Clickhimin
canmore.org.uk/collection/1312157

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Lerwick (show map)

Taken on: June 2, 2023

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7C, f/11.0, 1/500 sec, 75mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-7C
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Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	75mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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