Hundreds turned out on a rainy morning to take part in Danny Boyle's Armistice Pages of the Sea on Ayr beach today.
Six beaches across Scotland were chosen as locations for the special project commemorating the end of the First World War.
Among them were St Ninian's Isle beach in Shetland, West Sands in St Andrews, Scapa beach in Orkney, Ayr beach, Roseisle beach on the Moray Firth and Culla Bay Beach on the isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides.
All had a large scale portrait of a casualty from the conflict drawn in the sand before it was washed away by the incoming tide.
Boyle said: "Beaches are truly public space, where nobody rules other than the tide. They seem the perfect place to gather and say a final goodbye and thank you to those whose lives were taken or forever changed by the First World War."
And outside Scotland beaches from Cornwall to Pembrokeshire and Donegal, also displayed portraits of the fallen in the sand.
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