Looking North

I'M not the only one who is taking pictures without a flash , at nighttime.
There is one here , from Graemsay , one of the islands a little to south west of Orkney mainland.

But I happened to be out  one night and was driving back from Kirkwall  and was here

its looking more-or-less due North . but in July, In Orkney , At midnight
its this .
On the right are the lights of Hatson Industrial Estate and  the terminal for the Aberdeen and Lerwick ferry

Simmerdim its called.

Midnight

The sun sets late in this part of the world at this time of the year -  not quite a day without a sunset, but very nearly. Last night   was a clear night - the first i think we have had since the longest day , so I went outside with a camera and took are series of photos , starting looking over the Bay  of Isbister  with the Island of Shapinsay  behind it and the light of the Shapinsay lighthouse, with in the distance  the receding lights from the ferry on its way from Kirkwall to Lerwick .

 And then as you look round to the North towards Rousay, the sun is just  starting to become visible. It won't officially rise for another couple of hours

Of course the corollary of this is that at the end of December its dark until  after 9am and the sun sets at 3pm.