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Blackness is a village on the shore of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies within the council area of Falkirk, and the former county of West Lothian. Best viewed large. The village originally served as a port for nearby Linlithgow (incidently, the town where I was born and grew up), with a harbour on Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Forth. As a port it was superdeded by Bo’ness, and fell into decline from the 17th century. The small village is today dominated by Blackness Castle, situated on a promontory overlooking the bay. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Blackness or Lowland Scotland.
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The river Clyde, at New Lanark World Heritage Site, a beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village in Southern Scotland. The village first rose to fame when Robert Owen was mill manager from 1800-1825. Owen transformed life in New Lanark with ideas and opportunities which were at least a hundred years ahead of their time. Child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and villagers were provided with decent homes, schools and evening classes, free health care, and affordable food. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland. Best viewed Larger.
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Dunkeld Cathedral Bell Tower. Dunkeld Cathedral is a building of two very distinct halves. Its east end is a rather attractive parish church; its west end, apart from the bell tower and chapter house, a roofless ruin with a grassy carpet. The chapter house, under the bell tower at the west end of the Cathedral contains a museum with a graphic display outlining the history of the church and its community from Celtic times to the present day. Other interesting exhibits include the Apostles’ Stone, a fine 9th Century example of Pictish art, the Cross Slab from the 9th Century monastery, the Old Bell, removed during the 1975 restoration and marble statues of the 4th Duke of Atholl and Sir Donald Currie the 1908 restoration benefactor. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Highland Scotland.
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The inside of the ruin of Carriden Old Church has become part of the graveyard. This thought provoking marker is against the North wall. The ruin of Carriden Old Church is at Carriden, Bon’ess, Falkirk District, Scotland. Carriden Old Church was built in 1766 to replace the medieval church adjacent to Carriden House. It is T-shaped in plan and finished in simple Georgian style. An aedicule was attached to the north side of the building in 1771 to protect the monument to Sir William Maxwell of Carriden. A tower with a spire and a session house were added around 1840. When the new church was opened in 1909 the roof was taken off the old one and it is now a picturesque ruin. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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Carriden Church, Carriden, Bon’ess, Falkirk District, Scotland. Carriden new Church was opened in 1909. When the new church was opened the roof was taken off the old church and it is now a picturesque ruin next to the new church. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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The High Street in Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, looking South West. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots. /
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A typical view on the beautiful Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sometimes referred to in Gaelic poetry and song as Eilean a’ Cheò (The Misty Isle), Skye is renown for its natural beauty, history and wildlife. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Skye and Highland Scotland.
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princess street & Weaverly station Edinburgh
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This wonderful row of shops and houses with a turret on each end is located on Perth Road, Birnum, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Highland Scotland.
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The Birnam Hotel is located on Perth Road, Birnum, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Highland Scotland.
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The Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally opened in 1902 it was designed by architect W. Hamilton Beattie and was known as the North British Hotel, a traditional railway hotel built for the North British Railway adjacent to their Waverley Station. It kept the same name until the late 1980s when it was renamed the Balmoral Hotel after refurbishment, despite being located over 100 miles south of Balmoral Castle. For travellers arriving by train, the hotel provided comfortable and elegant lodgings, before they continued their journeys. The building’s architecture is Victorian, influenced by the traditional Scottish baronial style. The hotel is located in the very heart of the city at 1 Princes Street, the main shopping area overlooking Edinburgh Castle. The Balmoral is a landmark in its own right, its clock tower can be seen from all around. Given that the hotel is adjacent to the station, the clock is always set two minutes fast to ensure that people don’t miss their trains. In February 2007 it was confirmed that author J.K. Rowling finished the last book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at this hotel. Rowling left a signed statement written on a marble bust of Hermes in her room saying; “JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (552) on 11th Jan 2007”. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh and Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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The terrace above West Bow and Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh and Lowland Scotland.
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The Hub, at the top of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, is the home of the Edinburgh International Festival, and a central source of information on all the Edinburgh Festivals. Its gothic spire – the highest point in central Edinburgh – towers over the surrounding buildings, including the adjacent castle. The building was designed in collaboration by Edinburgh architect J Gillespie Graham, and the famous gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin, and constructed between 1842 and 1845. The inside houses the Hub Cafe; Hub Tickets, the central box office for the International Festival, which also sells tickets for a wide range of other events; a Main Hall with a capacity of 420, used as a venue for concerts and so on; and two smaller venues, the Glass Room and the Dunard Library, suitable for smaller events. Prior to the completion of the new Scottish Parliament Building at Holyrood in 2004, the Hub was occasionally used for meetings of the Scottish Parliament when the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly Hall was unavailable. The Parliament returned to the Hub for two weeks following the collapse of a beam in its debating chamber on 2 March 2006. What is now “The Hub” was built for the Church of Scotland both as a parish church and as a purpose-build General Assembly Hall. It was originally known as the Victoria Hall. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland last met here in 1929, when the Church of Scotland united with the United Free Church of Scotland, thereafter using the former United Free Church’s Assembly Hall on The Mound (and continuing to this day.) In 1979 the Highland Tolbooth St John’s Church building was closed, the congregation uniting with the nearby Greyfriars Kirk. The congregation had been notable for its services in Gaelic as well as English. The building was then virtually unused until becoming “The Hub”. According to an employee at the “Camera Obscura”, there is a true story of a student who climbed the Hub and placed a traffic cone on the very top. According to the account, it took police, with the assistance of professional climbers, 3 days to get the cone back down! Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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Holy Trinity Church, Dean Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. / / John Henderson was the architect, and the church was built in 1838 following the earlier construction of the Dean Bridge in 1832. The church was originally Scottish Episcopal but closed and was converted into an electricity transformer / sub-station. The church is currently home to: / Christian Centre Ministries; incorporating / - RHEMA Church / - RHEMA Bible College / - Kingdom Christian School / - Women On the Word / - Frontline Youth The church is located at the North side of the Dean Bridge which crosses the Water of Leith at Dean Village. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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The building on the corner of Queensferry Street and Belford Road at the south end of Dean Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland. This area of Edinburgh is called Dean Village (from dene, meaning ‘deep valley’). It was known as the “Water of Leith Village” and was a successful grain milling hamlet for more than 800 years. At one time there were no fewer than eleven working mills there, driven by the strong currents of the Water of Leith. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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The best free view of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo is from the corner apartments of Ramsay Garden. It has been known for some of the residents to offer their apartments for (exorbitant) rent during the Festival while they escape to the sun on the proceeds. The Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual Military tattoo given by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth and International military bands and display teams in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. The event takes place annually in August, as part of the Edinburgh Festival (a collective name for many independent festivals and events in Edinburgh in August). High above Princes Street, nestled beside Edinburgh Castle, there have probably been dwelling houses for well over 1,000 years. The present buildings, however, only go back to a redevelopment in the 18th century. Since there were no official planning controls in those days, there is a delightful mix of architectural styles, including an octagonal “Goose-pie” house built by Allan Ramsay the poet. There is a beautiful spacious flat, with a panoramic 360 degree view, designed by Sir Patrick Geddes (regarded as the “father” of town planning) which was created to encourage the University professors to return to the “Old Town” of Edinburgh. The apartments, with their magnificent views over Edinburgh to the river Forth and Fife on the other side of the river, are now privately owned, high priced, luxury dwellings but visitors to Edinburgh Castle will find wandering around on the outside of the complex a rewarding experience. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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The ruin of Carriden Old Church at Carriden, Bon’ess, Falkirk District, Scotland. Carriden Old Church was built in 1766 to replace the medieval church adjacent to Carriden House. It is T-shaped in plan and finished in simple Georgian style. An aedicule was attached to the north side of the building in 1771 to protect the monument to Sir William Maxwell of Carriden. A tower with a spire and a session house were added around 1840. When the new church was opened in 1909 the roof was taken off the old one and it is now a picturesque ruin. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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A view towards the West End from Inverleith Gardens
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A row of former Mill Worker’s houses at New Lanark World Heritage Site, a beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village in Southern Scotland. New Lanark is open to the public and is a wonderful living museum which in its heyday was a shining example of the benefits of treating your workers as people. Most of the village is part of the museum, but these houses are lived in. The village first rose to fame when Robert Owen was mill manager from 1800-1825. Owen transformed life in New Lanark with ideas and opportunities which were at least a hundred years ahead of their time. Child labour and corporal punishment were abolished, and villagers were provided with decent homes, schools and evening classes, free health care, and affordable food. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lanarkshire or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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Rolling farmland to the North of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, taken from the banks of the Union Canal, a little bit East from the Railway station. The tower of the Grange (a large country house) can be seen in the centre of the shot. Incidently, Linlithgow is the town where I was born. I lived there until I married. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Linlithgow, Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots.
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Black Castle House on the High Street, South Queensferry, Scotland is a three storey building, harled and painted black with the date 1623 on the facade. The upper floor has three windows with carved and scrolled detail. Black Castle House is an Historic Scotland Category: A listed building. HB Number 40386. It is the oldest remaining bulding in the town. The dormer pediments are all inscribed: the east one with the date, a love knot and hearts; the centre one with WLMS; the west one with WL and a love knot. The initial WL and MS refer to William Lowrie and his wife Marion Speddie. William’s sister-in-law, Janet Lowrie, was condemned to death as a witch and was probably burnt at Ferry Muir, which was where many witches were executed in the 17th century. The house has been much altered: in the 1950s it was used as a Mission Hall; in the 1970s it was owned by a design consultancy; and in the early 1980s it was converted into 3 residential units. It is probable that the front of the house was once arcaded and it is rumoured that there is a secret stairway and tunnel leading to the shore which would have been used by smugglers. However, no sign of this stairway exists today. Formerly in the county of West Lothian, South Queensferry lies on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, 10 miles (16 km) west of Edinburgh. It has been an important crossing at least since 1071 when Malcolm III granted free passage at the ‘Queens Ferry’ for pilgrims on their way to St Andrews. A ferry service operated until 1964, the year the Forth Road Bridge was opened. South Queensferry was created a burgh of regality in the 13th century and made a Royal Burgh in 1636. It traded actively with Europe in the 17th century. Buildings dating from this period include Laburnum House, the Hawes Inn, the Tolbooth Tower, the Black Castle, the Old Parish Church and Plewlands House. St Mary’s Episcopal Church (from 1441) was a monastery and hospice before the Reformation. The Hawes Inn features in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel ‘Kidnapped’. Today, South Queensferry is a dormitory settlement for Edinburgh and a yachting centre with electronics, oil storage and whisky industries. Shot taken during the redbubble day out in South Queensferry on Sunday 31 May 09. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: / South Queensferry, Lowland Scotland and HDR. Click here for a random page of photographs
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A glimpse of the River Forth and the Forth Bridge from the Vennel steps looking through one of the gaps in the buldings on the High Street in South Queensferry, Scotland. Formerly in the county of West Lothian, South Queensferry lies on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, 10 miles (16 km) west of Edinburgh. It has been an important crossing at least since 1071 when Malcolm III granted free passage at the ‘Queens Ferry’ for pilgrims on their way to St Andrews. A ferry service operated until 1964, the year the Forth Road Bridge was opened. South Queensferry was created a burgh of regality in the 13th century and made a Royal Burgh in 1636. It traded actively with Europe in the 17th century. Buildings dating from this period include Laburnum House, the Hawes Inn, the Tolbooth Tower, the Black Castle, the Old Parish Church and Plewlands House. St Mary’s Episcopal Church (from 1441) was a monastery and hospice before the Reformation. The Hawes Inn features in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel ‘Kidnapped’. Today, South Queensferry is a dormitory settlement for Edinburgh and a yachting centre with electronics, oil storage and whisky industries. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: / South Queensferry, Lowland Scotland and HDR. Click here for a random page of photographs
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Jenners on Princes Street is not just a large department store, it is an Edinburgh institution – the Harrods of Edinburgh. Up until 2005 when Jenners was purchased by House of Fraser, Jenners was the oldest independent department store in the world, founded in 1838 and run as a family concern. Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington were sacked after they skipped work to attend Musselburgh Races, so they decided to set up their own drapery store. On 1st May 1838, ‘Kennington & Jenner’ open their doors for business. By 1892, the store had expanded greatly to become the largest retail business in Scotland, but in November of that year a fire burned the store to the ground. Architect William Hamilton Beattie was commissioned to create a grand new building, built in the Renaissance style using pink sandstone and lavishly decorated. The building opened in 1895 and incorporated every modern convenience, including extensive electrical lighting, hydraulic lifts and air conditioning. Jenners is an Historic Scotland Category A Listed Building (HB Number 29505). Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4.5 / ISO 200 / Focal length 28 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Edinburgh or you can look at all my HDR shots. Featured in : HDR Photography : 23 July 09 Click here for a random page of photographs
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The Torphichen Arms Hotel is a late 18th century former posting house in Mid Calder, Scotland. These days it is a popular village pub. Torphichen Arms is an Historic Scotland Category B Listed Building (HB Number 14150). Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4 / ISO 200 / Focal length 18 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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