Firefighters, teachers and voluntary workers from across the Highlands and islands have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year honours.
Inverness-born writer Ali Smith topped the list, being made a CBE for services to literature.
It follows her victory in the 2014 Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award for her novel, How to be Both.
The 52-year-old writer, who now lives in Cambridge, was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize this year.
She worked as a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde before becoming a full-time writer.
Feisean nan Gaidheal chief executive, Arthur Cormack is made an OBE for services to Gaelic education.
Mr Cormack won the coveted gold medal at the Royal National Mod in 1983, at the age of 18.
He is also a former chairman of Bord na Gaidhlig.
Part of the Gaelic supergroup Cliar, he also runs his own Macmeanmna label.
Former Highland Council social work director Harriet Dempster is also made an OBE for services to child welfare.
Ms Dempster left the local authority in 2010 after 36 years in social work, including 11 years at the head of the service.
Balintore firefighter William Paterson receives the Queen’s Fire Services Medal.
Mr Paterson was the founder of the Easter Ross fire unit in 1975. In the team’s first 30 years, not a single house was lost to fire.
He has played an instrumental role in preserving and recruiting more members to the unit and is a committed advocate of the community safety programme.
His colleague David Millward, the crew commander at Kilmelford, south of Oban, is made an MBE.
The 59-year-old has been a volunteer firefighter for 23 years and is also a community safety advocate for the fire service based at Lochgilphead.
A number of other people have been made MBEs, including Ann Lampard, a music teacher of Skye, for services to music education in Skye and Lochalsh; John Maciver, of Sutherland, for services to crofting; Ellen Muir, of Aviemore, headteacher of Pilrig Park School, Edinburgh, for services to education; Dr Alastair Noble, of Nairn, for services to Health Social Care and Conservation in Nairnshire; Fiona Sellar, of Inverness, principal music teacher at Nairn Academy, for services to education, music and charity in Nairn; and Bryce Wilson, a historian of Stromness, Orkney, for services to culture in Orkney.