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A Poetic Take on Scotland’s Landscapes with @jamwrights

To see more photos and videos from Scotland’s landscapes, follow (@jamwrights) on Instagram. To see more celebrations from Burns Night, browse the #burnsnight and #burnssupper hashtags on Instagram.

Every year on the evening of January 25, Scots all over the world sit down to a traditional meal of Scottish dishes and celebrate the poetry of Robert Burns. The event is known as “Burns Night” or “Burns Supper.”

Photographer James Wright (@jamwrights) offers a poetic take on the landscapes of Scotland, on Instagram. “What I take away from Burns’s poetry is that humans are human and nothing more,” he says. “We both seek perspective and to remind people that they are but a small part in a big world.”

Based in Oban, James says he finds inspiration in the shifting light and colors around him. “The light here is always slightly sideways, which gives the landscape a three-dimensional feeling when you look in the right direction,” he says. “Some of the mountains appear to shoot straight up out of the sea as you drive along the side of a sea loch. You’ll be passing over Rannoch Moor admiring the empty bleakness and the distant mountains and suddenly you’ll have millions of tons of ancient rock looming over you. It does make the heart skip a beat or two.”

James also has fond memories of Burns Night suppers: “A group of friends gathered to read a couple of his short poems as a preamble to dinner. We paid more attention to the pronunciation of old Scots than we did to the actual meaning of the poems. It was more of an excuse to eat huge amounts of haggis, scoff a cranachan, drain a bottle of whisky and laugh until we fall over. Probably not too far from what Burns himself liked to do.”

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