and promotes the interests of crofting in Scotland
to secure the future of crofting.
Click your croft winner announced
22/07/2014
Registers of Scotland (RoS) has announced the winner of their ‘click your croft’ photography competition.
Heather Gray of Shetland won with her photo ‘Hentin Totties’, which shows a family of all ages working the land.
The competition, run in association with the Scottish Crofting Federation and the Crofting Commission, set out to explore what this traditional way of life means to crofters in 2014.
Miss Gray said: “I suppose my main inspiration for the photo is family. Seeing the extended family from grannies to toddlers coming together and helping out with the yearly crop – it just makes you smile.”
John King, Business Development Director at RoS and one of the panel of judges, said: “One of the key aims of the Crofting Register is to protect and secure croft land for future generations, and the entries we have received for this competition have highlighted just how important that is to crofters.
“We received a large number of fantastic photos taken by people of all ages from across Scotland’s crofting regions. What really comes across in these images is how much crofters love what they do, and how central family still is to this traditional way of life. ‘Hentin Totties’ stood out for its depiction of everyone mucking in and having a great time doing so.”
Second prize was awarded to ‘Checking the Sheep with Grandad’, submitted by Ria Macdonald. Taken on the Isle of Lewis, it shows Cormac Sandison with Mac the dog checking the sheep waiting to lamb on his grandad’s croft.
In third place was Fiona MacKay’s photo of haymaking in the Lewis sun, entitled ‘Summer Bales’.
Miss Gray has won a Canon EOS 700D digital SLR camera with lenses and accessories, while the two runners up will receive a framed print of their image.
The Crofting Register was introduced in 2012 and provides crofters with legal certainty over their crofts. More information is available at www.crofts.ros.gov.uk.
