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  1. A drone image of an area of fire-damaged forestry on a hillside. The ground has been burnt black.

  2. Situated on the rugged Caithness coast is the white Dounreay dome, housing for a nuclear reactor. There are also two chimney stacks. In the foreground is the sea. The sea is rough and waves crash against the rocky shore.

  3. A collection of banknotes of different denominations, including £10 and £20. The colours of the notes include brown, pink and purple. On top of the banknotes are £1 coins.

  4. A large white road sign at Invershin. The sign has the community's name in English and Gaelic. There are also the words: "Please drive carefully". The roadside has a thick growth of wildflowers and a white car travels down the nearby road. There are low, tree-covered hills in the distance.

  5. The college is a complex of white-walled buildings with grey roofs. The tallest is a turret like building. Next to the buildings are two small greenhouse-like glass domes. The site is on the coast and overlooks the sea.

  6. A farmed salmon is held in the hands of a fish farm worker. The fish is silver in colour with black speckles.

  7. A hospital building in Inverness over a number of storeys with cars parked outside and people walking about nearby

  8. An elderly woman walks down a corridor in a care home with her back to the camera. She is using a walker for support and is wearing a blue cardigan and a long blue flowery skirt. The walls are cream and the carpet is blue.

  9. The church is a small, single-storey building with a peaked roof and white walls. There is a long window in the gable end. The church is on a little hill above a road and there is a sign below it that reads St Finnan's.

  10. A brown sign for the North Coast 500 route. There are direction pointers and illustrations of a car pulling a caravan, and a campervan. The sign also has the words: "NC500" and "alternative route". The sign is next to a rural road with trees and a hill in the distance.

  11. Aviemore resident Sally Devlin pictured riding her bike

  12. An aerial view of Fort William showing the houses on a hillside and buildings on the waterfront of Loch Linnhe.

  13. An architects' visualisation of the allotments. It show people, represented as white silhouettes, working at rows of leafy, green vegetables. There are also the faint shaoes of greenhouses. Trees line and hedges line the allotment area.

  14. Police Scotland officer in uniform

  15. Ed Smith

  16. A Co-op sign

  17. A model of the Loch Ness monster with its humps on the surface of the water. The monster is green and yellow and wearing a tartan hat.

  18. Ben Nevis

  19. The A82 road is shown heading towards Glencoe with mountains in the background

  20. A male roe deer sticks its head above a field of ripening wheat. The deer is light brown in colour and has short, brown antlers and large black nose.

  21. Looking down the carriageway of the Cromarty Bridge. There is one car in the distance. The firth's water are grey, reflecting dark clouds above.

  22. Fire engines on a road near wildfires

  23. A woman wearing a red jacket is helped along a railway track by a man who is wearing a blue and grey jumper and grey trousers. Their faces are blurred out.

  24. An old, sandstone-block church with a slate roof covered in mosses and lichens. There are gravestones in the foreground and trees surround the church.