IanStuartPhotography

16/02/2026

Cherry amber burial beads from 5,700 years ago, Funnelbeaker culture, made of Conifer self healing tree bark resins since 90 million years ago. Neolithics animistically compressed cyclical time by firing resin in crucibles or sand pits. In the conifer marshes the deceased were garlanded with the trees creation and passing there. Their blood projected into permanent globules alongside vessels. Poeticised as tears of the sea and sun: “gemstones dropped
in the peat floe
like the bearings of history”, Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out.
Today, Conifers are celebrated as Christmas trees!

21/04/2023

13/09/2022

09/09/2022

Girl with heart shaped balloon, blued detail.

28/08/2022

Tapirs’ closest relatives are Rhinos. Their noses scent and grab for vegetarian foraging - or for snorkling swims! There is a world Tapir day for these unassuming and endangered forest and, here, Amazon jungle dwellers. Its thick coat protects from predators.This tapir looks like the recently identified Kabomani tapir, the first such, of five,species, since 1865.

12/10/2019

Adam's Peak is a pilgrimage for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians which children to grandparents do with wonderful community spirit.

07/10/2018

Kutts live Manchester

Bands

02/09/2018

10/03/2018

Nehanda, spirit medium, Elysium Magna Dance Theatre, Zimbabwe.

29/01/2018

To save her unwell child, the mother has just reached a Christian care centre.

23/01/2018

Yes, you can do horse riding here across the highlands!