We dropped the hammer on a Photo Fun Challenge.

Go to the Photo Fun Challenge 6 story, pick a few favorite photographs, and VOTE!!!.

So, here's the deal.

[editor's note, by ana]Note new, extended deadline!

sorry guys had a lot on and forgot about this. I was even too busy to write a WFC entry. I'm busy doing pre-production for a short film for this

BUT ON WITH THE PFC

The theme is "friend". Rules over the fold Update [2007-9-26 19:46:10 by fleece]: EXTENDING THIS TIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER SO I'VE GOT TIME TO TAKE A PHOTO FOR IT. THIS IS WHY TRADITIONALLY THEY DON'T LET EMPLOYEES ENTER COMPETITIONS BECAUSE THEY'LL DIDDLE THINGS TO ADVANTAGE THEMSELVES

Today we have some photos illustrating the weaving done in the living museum of Gearrannan, a formerly inhabited "blackhouse village" on the Isle of Lewis. In this case these houses were occupied until the late sixties. (The name "blackhouse" comes from the difference between the older stone houses and the newer white-painted modern housing.)

The weaver here is creating a tweed cloth - the (relatively) famous Harris Tweed.

Another shot taken at the northern-most tip of the Isle of Lewis.

Okay, so I think I was pretty lucky with this one. Taken off the northern-most point of Lewis, where the gulls hover in strong updrafts from the wind rushing up the steep cliffs.

Stolen from the beaches on the Isle of Lewis.

This is a shot of Traigh Losgaintir, a beach on the west coast of the lower half of the Isle of Lewis.

(For some reason, at this point it's actually the Isle of Harris, despite the two areas being the same island...)

and other folks who enjoy a bit of Photoshop fiddling.

After the break, the original version of the Callanais Stones photo. I hope it might be interesting to compare this with the altered version.

Today's photo is taken on a recent holiday to the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. I'll post a few more over the next week or so.

The subject is the Callanais Standing Stones, an astonishing collection of slabs of rock on a small hill on the west coast of the island. The one in the center is just under five metres tall.

Unfortunately not taken in Tewkesbury.