Elgin lighthouses helping to Light the North
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Three colourfully decorated lighthouses are doing their bit to raise the profile of a cancer charity in Elgin.
Sited on the Plainstones, in Cooper Park and at Johnstons of Elgin, the trio are part of the CLAN's Light the North project, which is being officially launched today.
The project has seen a total of 140 such lighthouses dotted around the areas of Scotland where the charity works.
Smaller than its two 8ft-tall cousins, the lighthouse at Johnstons has been designed and decorated by five pupils from Buckie High School.
Innes Reid, Shannon Paterson, Freya Skene, Danielle Grieve and Autumn Taylor chose to depict a sunrise as a symbol of hope.
Meanwhile, the bunting on their lighthouse represents the coloured ribbons of awareness for different types of cancers.
A spokesperson for the charity said: "We've often heard people affected by cancer describe CLAN as a light in the dark during their cancer journey.
"It makes the symbolism of a lighthouse the perfect fit."
The lighthouse on the Plainstones is called 'Orca' and is being sponsored by Colin Lawson Transport.
It's been created by Stallan, an artist who goes under a single name having graduated from Gray's School of Art.
'Arista' is the name of the lighthouse in Cooper Park.
Its creator is Shelagh Swanson who's another graduate from Gray's.
