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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

This week I'm talking to two sisters, Kate Stevenson and Claire Hart of Scottish Sisters photography.

Together, they travel around Scotland and they photograph wildlife and landscapes, and their work is really beautiful.

But I'd spotted them on social media, and the immediate question in my mind was,

how was this come to be two sisters working together like this and why?

I met up with them in a bird hide at the RSPB, Baronshock Reserve, near Motherwell.

And Kate started off by telling me how the love of photography had begun.

I guess you could say that it's in our DNA.

Our great-grandfather, Edwin, Arthur Baker, was an astro photographer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.

So his responsibilities were experiments in measuring light through stellar dust, I think, trying,

not something that we know very much about, but interesting that's where we've kind of traced

the photography journey back to grandma and grandpa, where keen photographers, amateur photographers,

taking pictures of their travels around Europe and Scotland.

They were involved in hosteling, so we're kind of all over the country growing up with my dad.

So the photography, Jean, passed over to Dad, and he actually studied at Napier University in Edinburgh.

When he came out at university, he moved into doing portraits, family portraits and actually taking pictures of victims for the police.

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