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Be encouraged, it can be overcome. Thanks for watching!

Yes exactly. A slice in time of time.

It changed the way I fly. Every take off now I am like “here we go”, engines do the noise and now I smile. Knowledge is power

Thank you for this response. I think that is correct about our brains wired to protect us. With any fear or stress the question is whether it is rational or acceptable. In our cars we don’t enter a perpetual state of panic despite the inherent (and actually greater) risks. Drivers are less well trained and regulated, our cars not maintained as well. The challenge for our physiological response is trying to line up that perception of flying with modern reality. Especially that bit I mention after take off when the angle of ascent decreases (but remains upward) and we feel like we are falling. For me, it’s an ongoing process for myself rewiring the impulse to flee.

It’s a wonderful place to go and have an excuse to return there. Is your gran on the mainland or another island?

Thank you for watching. I dont think BA do Canada but others might. The book or online course will also be a great help but depending on level of fear going on plane with experts is a game changer.

Thank you for sharing this. I love that, rescued from the flux. I wrote a substack essay in summer about how photography liberates a moment for all time, here: kierandodds.substack.com/p/a-universe-made-of-stories

Thanks for watching, it is a truly remarkable place.

Thanks mate, really encouraging seeing your name pop up in the orders. Hope to dispatch tomorrow or Wednesday:)

@@Kieran_Dodds cool and no rush, if I had time I’d of stopped on my way past Saturday 😁👍 couldn’t agree more with the final process of printing, I say final, maybe the final final is when someone wants to buy said print.

@MaliDaviesPhotography yes that is true the work is best shared and even better if prints are collected. The photographic process succeeds, for me, by how it does at that point regardless of its life after, in print as a card, edition or in press. There is more to say on this! Sorry not to see you in passing! If you get marooned in Edinburgh let me know:)

Yes authentic neolithic tyres.😂

😂 may the Algo be kind to you in your quest for content! Appreciate the sub. I was at the Ness this week so that and more photo randomness to come.

All links were in the video description. Thanks for watching and sharing!

They were gathering places, although exact reason is uncertain. There were domestic sites nearby but these are altogether bigger.

Someone else asked that and I will have a better answer next week!

They are beautiful people. Just another few hundred thousands to track down.

Like you! Thanks for watching and saying

Yes and the altar stone of Stonehenge was from this geological area. People liked to travel, even then.

Thanks for watching, Gregor!

I admit that’s exactly my feeling on seeing this dotted grid. Humans like lines, nature is more squiggles. I would love to film a discussion by the parties involved on the aesthetics and plan. I assume the nature mortality and growth rates will mean it will thin out and become wild after the initial structure is put in place. Rewilding on industrial scales seems a contradiction on the surface of it. Thanks for watching and sharing.

Hi Paul, good to hear from you. The idea is it will remain safely covered for the future. 20 years of digs and they have enough material to fill a few museums. But then who knows? Great to hear how you found the video too, great name, story and island. Thank you.

Good question. Not as far as I am aware. The site is so layered and sea levels have varied so much then perhaps. The lower levels of the site are not far off the current sea level. I will ask for a more informed answer!

The cattle do love trees which is part of the problem! Planting more trees is a good idea but unless there is demarcation they will eat everything else. The land around is used for crops so the cattle exist between the two. So the best stop gap is to protect the church forest entirely.

Thank you for saying and watching. It can be very meditative, in many ways it is in response totally to the fragmented attention of online life.

Thank you for watching and sharing your enthusiasm for the past. I do wonder what is out there to discover. This site is an incredible place.

This is a fair point. I think that often. Especially in relation to the dark ages which were quite bright in many ways. To paraphrase CS Lewis we don’t look back on the past we look down on it. Chronological snobbery.

Apart from medical. Examination of still exstant human remains from early civilisations showed how riddled with parasites and disease they were. The short lifespans for most ended miserably.

It is a special place that stays with you. Were you visiting or working in the trenches?

Ha. Exactly. The past animating the present.

I think what Nick says at the start of it being a microcosm of the world, land wrapped in sea and land is an important point. There is the practical aspects of defence and a safe harbour but the aesthetic qualities of light and sky are very significant. Especially when you think how tied the other monuments are to light, stars and universal cycles. The 360 vista is dominated by the vast heavens above.

Why not, why anywhere...

In the same way there is clear choice of materials for tools that are aesthetic as well as functional, so the location has practical benefits for defence, farming and travel but it is hard not to experience a sense of awe. Humans are worshipful creatures, so that is a significant factor

I was looking more at the practical side. It's not all that easy to live in Orkney compared to other areas. You have to be really good at handling what I will assume to be primitive boats. You've come a long way too to get there. The weather can be fierce and is not as nice as places further south. Were these people driven there? What were the advantages that made them stay?

@@jeremywilliams5107 yes certainly a tough life but depends on the where they came from. The islands are milder than the arctic where people colonised early on, warmer than the ice age or even more southerly latitudes with continental climates due to the gulf stream. There are fewer diseases in cooler places too, like malaria, so that is an advantage. I sound like Neolithic real estate agent!

Thank you for taking the time to write. Humans are incredibly smart and geologically 5000 years isn’t that long. I suppose it shows we haven’t actually advanced very far.

"stellar visitors" We go into space. The intelligence to do so did not pop into existence just recently. Humans had been working stone for millennia before this site was built.

I think I follow, the steller visitors traveled dozens of light years only to crash and leave a crew of stone masons on Orkney.

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Exactly. No need for stellar visitors. They were probably just visiting from Aberdeenshire.

Thanks Liz! Much appreciated especially as algorithm doesn’t seem to like it 😂

It’s a serious fear to overcome but it can be overcome. People on the course were terrified before they arrived but through instruction and information they were able to progress to get on a plane. The question is: is the alternative acceptable? Is it worth driving across the world because you are afraid? Roads are, statistically speaking, more dangerous but I totally get that that in itself does not remove fear. Planes just seem more insane, until we understand the physics and our own psychology. Let me know if you take a step forward, in your own time of course.

Thank you! The world awaits. Currently enjoying Orkney and Highland explorations without planes.

Thank you yes that must have autocorrected. It was correct lower down and in the actual subtitles. The political situation seems so hard to comprehend. The conservation work continues despite this, growing a forest to benefit society in good times and bad. Thank you again for writing.

I am not sure. It is there, upside down.

@@Kieran_Dodds Hmmm thank you. I enjoy your work.

Thanks for following along. The car is bottom left. The underside with the wee wheels.

Thank you, always happy to have enthusiasts along for the journey!

Thank you!

That line was from a talk I was writing but it popped out in my ramble. Edinburgh is ideal for backdrops.