Rosie
Introducing me: #Photographer and #artist on the Isle of #Skye. Mum to two teens & 3 rescue #dogs . #adoptdontshop Wild (often livid) about social justice. Sweary. I specialise in photographing #weddings and #elopements and sharing the #isleofskye with travellers. Sidekick to @SkyeWoody
Nov 8, 2022 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadPatrick HadfieldNov 8, 2022
@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody good to see you here, too!
Show threadRosieNov 8, 2022
@patrickhadfield @SkyeWoody hi! Feels like walking through a maze!
Show threadCllr Math Campbell-SturgessNov 9, 2022
@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody beautiful photos from a beautiful island (finally made it to Skye this summer after 18 years in Scotland. Going again next summer. Herself would move us there in a heartbeat and she loves Argyll almost as much as I do!)
Show threadRosieNov 9, 2022
@mathcampbell @SkyeWoody thank you! We lived in Argyll for years. In Whitehouse nr Tarbert. It’s beautiful but Skye blows it away! I grew up here so a tad biased!!
Show threadCllr Math Campbell-SturgessNov 9, 2022
@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody it is beautiful but I can also see the challenges the increased tourism has brought. So many local facilities that are overburdened. So many houses that are just airBNB etc. People often think places like Skye that are popular tourism destinations are amazing to live (and they are) but don’t see the problems that remain when the holiday makers have gone home…
Show threadRosieNov 14, 2022
@mathcampbell @SkyeWoody couldn’t agree more. We are seeing a second clearance in our village as our children are completely priced out of the housing market. We need innovative approaches to crofting and rural development to reverse this urgently
Show threadCllr Math Campbell-SturgessNov 14, 2022
@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody I think the changes to planning making it a bit harder to open up an Airbnb will help, but it needs vigorous enforcement from councils and the trouble there is whilst everyone will acknowledge that having half the village solely occupied as holiday homes is bad and needs to stop, a lot of people will a breath later say “but not MY wee cottage that’s on AirBNb, that’s different”.
We need the build more rural homes but with legal protection to stop them being buy-to-let
Show threadCllr Math Campbell-SturgessNov 14, 2022

@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody we need councils to get serious about “no more holiday homes in x village”, set limits eg no more than 20% of residences; there need to be taxes on the short-term lets which at the moment pay absolutely no local tax at all most of the time.

The islands and highlands are not a holiday park. Everything cannot just be tourism tourism tourism. Locals have to come first. Guests are important and contribute a lot to the economy but community comes before tourism.

Show threadRosieNov 14, 2022
@mathcampbell @SkyeWoody absolutely! And we nerd to reopen small rural school and be innovative in delivering learning rather than mothballing schools and creating retirement villages
Show threadCllr Math Campbell-SturgessNov 14, 2022

@portraitsskye @SkyeWoody yep. People (wrongly) say a pub is the heart of a village or a post office or a church etc.

All have their place but the real heart of a village is it’s school. Without one, children grow up, leave and will not return. Families will never move somewhere without a school. You can get stuff delivered from elsewhere, you can pray in your head, you can even have folk round for a pint. Kids need a school and without one close-by a community slowly dies.

Show threadBobtasticNov 9, 2022
@portraitsskye looks stunning Rosie
Show threadRosieNov 9, 2022
@Bobtastic thank you
Show threadHoney and the Moon PhotographyNov 10, 2022
@portraitsskye these are beautiful!
Show threadRosieNov 10, 2022
@honeyandthemoonphoto thank you so much!