For 4,500 years these giant blocks of Gneiss have stood in a field by the village of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis. Local tradition says that giants who lived on the island refused to be converted to Christianity by Saint Kieran and were turned into stone as a punishment. It’s a mysterious and mystical place - the more so in the late afternoon light beneath brooding skies.

Date: 14 April 2010
Location : Isle of Lewis, Hebrides
Nikon D300, Tokina lens 14mm. 1/50s f16 ISO200
Image reference bw90. © Angus Bruce, Ullapool.