Hello from Stromness!

Davy Gray

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Hello everybody! I'm a native Orcadian (born, raised and live in Orkney) probably makes me a Viking or such...

I've been doing photography for the last 30 years or so, family in-between, studying, working... I'm sure you all know the score. I have put a few images up on the subsciber Gallery page, however I must say the quality of work here is outstanding.

Anyway, great to see your work and I feel privileged to be a part of APUG.
 

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Hello Davy and welcome to Apug. I am sure you will like it here.

Hans
 

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Davey - welcome. You live in my favourite place in the world. You are a lucky man. My aim in life is to one day live on one of the houses off the main street in Stromness with a little jetty into the sea ..... one day.
 

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Welcome from an island at the other end of the country!




Steve.
 

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Welcome to the APUG jungle!
 

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And a welcome from a distant relative (?) on the other side of the North Sea!
 

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Welcome! I sailed to Stromness once. We went up north afterwards to go down the Scottish east coast and home to Sweden. I was too frightened of the "grottekvarn" in Pentland Firth to choose that way through.
/matti
 

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Welcome from the dead centre of England. Well it feels like that at times Ole and matti are almost certainly closer neighbours than those of us South of the Border but are only related when they can point to the Scandanavian whisky distilleries.

PS matti. Sensible to avoid the Pentland Firth. A wave there allegedly bent a cruiser's gun barrel prior to the first World War. Others say it was an illusion caused by substituting a ration of "Highland Park" for the normal navy rum!

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And another welcome Davy, this time from the (relative!) fleshpots of Inverness. As luck would have these things, I tried to visit the Firth Cameras website only this afternoon and I see that they have stopped trading. I've popped in there a couple of times when I've visited Orkney in the past and he always seemed to have something interesting, but alas no more!
 

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welcome from vancouver and I hope your stay is enjoyable.
 
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Davy Gray

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Hi Peter,

Yes, sadly the gentleman that ran Firth Cameras passed away a year or two ago.
Thank you for your welcome all the same.
 

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pentaxuser said:
... Ole and matti are almost certainly closer neighbours than those of us South of the Border but are only related when they can point to the Scandanavian whisky distilleries.
Click to expand...

I could point to some of them, but that would make me a few unpleasant enemies. So in the meanwhile let's just say that the best whiskey is made on the other side; and that "Scapa" is one of my absolute favorites.
 

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Davy... welcome to APUG from western New England USA. I hope you visit this site often.

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Welcome from South Shropshire.

It was a holiday to Orkney 7 years ago that inspired me to load up my camera with black and white film and take up photography seriously again. I remember going to a small camera shop in Finstown which seemed to be in the garage of the owner's house and picking up a red filter and some film.

Like Leon I hope to eventually move to Orkney.

Cheers

Mike
 
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