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The Naysmith Bridge (built 1800) crosses the river Almond in Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, West Lothian, Scotland. The park is a semi wild nature retreat open to all. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland. Best viewed Larger.
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The oldest building in Muthill, by far, is the tower of the old church. This probably dates back to the 1000s and would originally have been a free standing tower designed as much for protection as for worship. Muthill is three miles south of Crieff, Scotland. Muthill itself was founded by Culdee Monks who had established a community here by the 700s. The name comes from the Gaelic word “Maothail”. This is said by some to translate as skin softening and to imply that Muthill was seen by the Culdees as a comfortable place to be based. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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A young lowland gorilla shows his youthful curiosity by sniffing a leaf which had fallen in the water
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The Bridge Inn is a nice restaurant located by the Union Canal at Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland. The bridge in question carries the main road into Ratho. This 31.5 mile contour canal travels from The Falkirk Wheel to Edinburgh. Popular features of this gentle lock-free waterway include the Avon, Almond and Slateford Aqueducts, which are among the finest in Britain. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland. Best viewed Larger.
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A western lowland gorilla lovingly carries her infant; strength and gentleness combined. Romina is the mother and she is carrying her little fella, Namoke, who is 3 years old
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The Almondell Viaduct (built 1820) in Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, West Lothian, Scotland. The park is a semi wild nature retreat open to all. This is an HDR version. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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One of the many small picnic areas in Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, West Lothian, Scotland. The park is a semi wild nature retreat open to all. Three JPGs converted into an HDR shot in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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About the year 1840 the Stirling family, owners of Muiravonside Estate, (now Muiravonside Country Park, near Whitecross, Falkirk District, Scotland) constructed two large capacity lime kilns near to the Union Canal and hid them behind a classical facade of masonry. Although they were in operation for around only ten years their remains still loom over the small stream below in which the lime would have been treated. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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St. Abbs is a small fishing village located on the southeast coast of Scotland, in the committee area of Berwickshire, Scottish Borders region. The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name was changed in the 1890’s to St. Abbs. The new name was derived from St Abb’s Head, a rocky promontory located to the north of the village, itself named after St. Aebbe. St. Abbs is a popular site for Scuba Divers. The sea around the village is unusually clear, in contrast to the more silt-laden coastal waters further to the north or south. These clear waters and the spectacular underwater scenery resulted in Britain’s first Voluntary Marine Reserve being established at St. Abbs. The Marine Reserve was established on 18 August 1984 by David Bellamy. 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. Some more shots in this series can be viewed by clicking in the thumbnails below. /
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St. Abbs is a small fishing village located on the southeast coast of Scotland, in the committee area of Berwickshire, Scottish Borders region. This view is from the harbour looking out to St. Abbs Head, a landmark site for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. This National Nature Reserve is home to thousands of guillemots, kittiwakes, razorbills, shags, fulmars, puffins and herring gulls nesting on narrow ledges from April to August, and the cliffs here offer a spectacular vantage point for observing their behaviour. The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name was changed in the 1890’s to St. Abbs. The new name was derived from St Abb’s Head, a rocky promontory located to the north of the village, itself named after St. Aebbe. St. Abbs is a popular site for Scuba Divers. The sea around the village is unusually clear, in contrast to the more silt-laden coastal waters further to the north or south. These clear waters and the spectacular underwater scenery resulted in Britain’s first Voluntary Marine Reserve being established at St. Abbs. The Marine Reserve was established on 18 August 1984 by David Bellamy. 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. Some more shots in this series can be viewed by clicking in the thumbnails below. /
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St. Abbs is a small fishing village located on the southeast coast of Scotland, in the committee area of Berwickshire, Scottish Borders region. This view is from the harbour looking out to St. Abbs Head, a landmark site for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. This National Nature Reserve is home to thousands of guillemots, kittiwakes, razorbills, shags, fulmars, puffins and herring gulls nesting on narrow ledges from April to August, and the cliffs here offer a spectacular vantage point for observing their behaviour. The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name was changed in the 1890’s to St. Abbs. The new name was derived from St Abb’s Head, a rocky promontory located to the north of the village, itself named after St. Aebbe. St. Abbs is a popular site for Scuba Divers. The sea around the village is unusually clear, in contrast to the more silt-laden coastal waters further to the north or south. These clear waters and the spectacular underwater scenery resulted in Britain’s first Voluntary Marine Reserve being established at St. Abbs. The Marine Reserve was established on 18 August 1984 by David Bellamy. 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. Some more shots in this series can be viewed by clicking in the thumbnails below. /
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Lying about three miles west of South Queensferry, Scotland, is the tiny hamlet of Abercorn. Abercorn House is the largest house left in the Hamlet. Abercorn (Gaelic: Obar Chùirnidh) is a village and parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around 5 km (3 miles) west of South Queensferry. The Bede mentions Abercorn as the site of a monastery and seat of Bishop Trumwine. This is now known to have existed close to the present day church. The church itself dates partially from the 12th century, although its most interesting features are the private aisles created for the three major families of the area, the Dalyells, the Hamiltons, and later the Hopes, who had their own enclosure behind the altar built by architect William Bruce. The Hope mausoleum, designed by William Burn, is located in the kirkyard. Older burial monuments include Viking “hogback” stones, and fragments of 7th century crosses. A castle also existed here from Norman times, although it was demolished in 1455 by James II during a siege against the “Black” earls of Douglas. The House of the Binns, seat of the Dalyell family, is within the parish. The lands of Abercorn were granted to Claud Hamilton in the 16th century. His son was created earl of Abercorn. In the 17th century the estate was sold to the Hope family, who were created earls of Hopetoun, and built Hopetoun House to the east of the village. Abercorn’s population was recorded as 1,044 at the time of the 1821 census, although it has since declined. Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Camera: Canon EOS 450D BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots. Sold a Card on 1st Jul 08 Other shots in this series can be viewed by selecting any of the icons below: /
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Vogrie House forms the centrepiece of Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian, Scotland. It is the former home of the Dewar family and was built in 1876 by Andrew Heiton, the town Architect for Perth. The house is an example of Victorian baronial splendour and is said to be one of the best surviving examples of Heiton’s work. The house was a typical country house with a library, servants’ quarters and many bedrooms. Transformed in the 1920s into a nursing home for the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, the house was sold on to local government in the 1950s and had a role during the Cold War as a control centre for communications. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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This shot shows two ways of producing oil, one for cooking and the other to power industry. The yellow crop in the field is Rape. Oilseed rape, or canola, is the world’s third most important oilseed crop. Plant breeders developed it from the ‘weed’ rapeseed (B. napus oleifera). The first variety was marketed 1974, and the bright yellow fields of oilseed rape in flower are now a familiar sight in the countryside. Not good news for Asthma sufferers (like me). In the background can be seen Greendykes Bing towering over the town of Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, Greendykes Bing (95m in height) rises to 195 m above sea level. It is the largest of the counties post-industrial spoil-heaps. Bing, a Scots word meaning pile or heap, is derived from Old Norse ‘bingr’: a heap. The word has been in use from the 16th century and is still common in the every-day language of central Scotland. The result of retorting mineral oil from deep-mined carboniferous shale beds at a time when Scotland was the major oil producing nation in the world. They tower above the naturally low-lying landscape of West Lothian. In 1851, James Young opened Britain’s first commercial mineral oil refinery in Bathgate using cannel (parrot) coal. “Paraffin Oil” was a brand name and initially more than 4,000 litres a week of lubricants and naptha were manufactured for the paint and rubber industries. As the retorting process improved, lighting oil was produced and the Bathgate works provided 25% of the lamp oil used in London. When the cannel coal seam ran out in 1858 Young discovered that oil was also extractable from oil-shale found near Broxburn and West Calder. Crude oil was retorted from shale mined at Westwood and Winchburgh then refined at Pumpherston into paraffin oil. The maximum output from the industry in Scotland was in 1913 when 27.5 million barrels of crude oil were produced. BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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The King Vulture The King Vulture, is a large Central and South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. The adult King Vulture is the most strikingly colored of the New World Vultures. King Vultures have lived up to 30 years in captivity, though their lifespan in the wild is unknown. This vulture uses urohydrosis, defecating on its legs, in order to lower its body temperature. Despite its bill and large size, it is relatively unaggressive at a kill and will normally back down rather than fight.The King Vulture lacks a voice box, though it can make low croaking noises and wheezing sounds.Its only natural predators are snakes, which will prey upon the vulture’s eggs and young, and large cats such as jaguars, which may surprise and kill an adult vulture at a carcass. The King Vulture feeds solely on carrion and, unlike some New World Vultures, is not known to kill sick or dying animals for food.It often eats stranded fish along river banks, but does not come to village refuse dumps for food.Though it has keen eyesight which can help it locate food. There is evidence that suggests a decline in population, though it is not significant enough to cause it to be listed.This decline is due primarily to habitat destruction and poaching.
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One of the many old bridges over the Union Canal. This one is close to Old Philpstoun, West Lothian, Scotland. This 31.5 mile contour canal travels from The Falkirk Wheel to Edinburgh. Popular features of this gentle lock-free waterway include the Avon, Almond and Slateford Aqueducts, which are among the finest in Britain. BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Lowland Scotland.
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Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns. Bongos are the only Tragelaphid in which both sexes have horns. Bongos have a complex social interaction & are found in African dense forest mosaics. / The Western or Lowland Bongo, (Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus), is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species. / The Lowland Bongo faces an ongoing population decline and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus, to be Lower Risk & is classified as Near Threatened on the conservation status scale. / / / / The Eastern or Mountain Bongo, (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci), of Kenya has a coat even more vibrant than that of Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus. The Mountain Bongo is only found in the wild in one remote region of central Kenya. The Mountain Bongo is classified by the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group as endangered with more specimens in captivity than in the wild. / In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) upgraded the Bongo to a Species Survival Plan (SSP) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year. / Source: Wikipedia. Picture taken in Burger’s Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands
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West Lowland Silverback Gorilla in captivity Critically Endangered Captured from behind glass enclosure Shot with Canon 1D mk3
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The view looking west from the end of Beecraigs Loch in Beecraigs Country Park in the Bathgate Hills of West Lothian, Scotland. 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: Lowland Scotland or you can look at all my HDR shots. Click here for a random page of photographs
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High in the Lowther Hills to the west of the M74 in Dumfries and Galloway, is Wanlockhead, Scotland’s highest village at 467m (1531 ft). It owes its existence to the lead, gold and other minerals found under the surrounding countryside. These mineral deposits were probably first exploited by the Romans and from the 1200s they were being worked again by groups of miners who gathered here each summer. The first permanent settlement appeared in about 1680, when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers’ cottages that could be occupied all year round. Although lead was for many centuries the mainstay of the village’s economy, it was not the only mineral found here. What became known as “God’s Treasure House” also produced zinc, copper, silver and gold. Some of the world’s purest gold, at 22.8 carats, was found locally and used in the Regalia of the Scottish Crown. Today’s Wanlockhead depends primarily on tourism. The Southern Upland Way long distance footpath passes through the village, but the main attraction for the motoring tourist revolves around the village’s industrial past. Information from Undiscovered Scotland. 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: Wanlockhead and Lowland Scotland. Featured in : Sets of Two : 12 July 09 Click here for a random page of photographs
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High in the Lowther Hills to the west of the M74 in Dumfries and Galloway, is Wanlockhead, Scotland’s highest village at 467m (1531 ft). It owes its existence to the lead, gold and other minerals found under the surrounding countryside. These mineral deposits were probably first exploited by the Romans and from the 1200s they were being worked again by groups of miners who gathered here each summer. The first permanent settlement appeared in about 1680, when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers’ cottages that could be occupied all year round. Although lead was for many centuries the mainstay of the village’s economy, it was not the only mineral found here. What became known as “God’s Treasure House” also produced zinc, copper, silver and gold. Some of the world’s purest gold, at 22.8 carats, was found locally and used in the Regalia of the Scottish Crown. Today’s Wanlockhead depends primarily on tourism. The Southern Upland Way long distance footpath passes through the village, but the main attraction for the motoring tourist revolves around the village’s industrial past. Information from Undiscovered Scotland. 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: Wanlockhead and Lowland Scotland. Featured in : A Place To Call Home : 11 July 09 / Featured in : Sets of Two : 12 July 09 Click here for a random page of photographs
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Church Street in Wanlockhead village. The Miner’s Church is further down the street. High in the Lowther Hills to the west of the M74 in Dumfries and Galloway, is Wanlockhead, Scotland’s highest village at 467m (1531 ft). It owes its existence to the lead, gold and other minerals found under the surrounding countryside. These mineral deposits were probably first exploited by the Romans and from the 1200s they were being worked again by groups of miners who gathered here each summer. The first permanent settlement appeared in about 1680, when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers’ cottages that could be occupied all year round. Although lead was for many centuries the mainstay of the village’s economy, it was not the only mineral found here. What became known as “God’s Treasure House” also produced zinc, copper, silver and gold. Some of the world’s purest gold, at 22.8 carats, was found locally and used in the Regalia of the Scottish Crown. Today’s Wanlockhead depends primarily on tourism. The Southern Upland Way long distance footpath passes through the village, but the main attraction for the motoring tourist revolves around the village’s industrial past. Information from Undiscovered Scotland. 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: Wanlockhead and Lowland Scotland. Click here for a random page of photographs
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Burnside Cottages in Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. High in the Lowther Hills to the west of the M74, Wanlockhead is Scotland’s highest village at 467m (1531 ft). It owes its existence to the lead, gold and other minerals found under the surrounding countryside. These mineral deposits were probably first exploited by the Romans and from the 1200s they were being worked again by groups of miners who gathered here each summer. The first permanent settlement appeared in about 1680, when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers’ cottages that could be occupied all year round. Although lead was for many centuries the mainstay of the village’s economy, it was not the only mineral found here. What became known as “God’s Treasure House” also produced zinc, copper, silver and gold. Some of the world’s purest gold, at 22.8 carats, was found locally and used in the Regalia of the Scottish Crown. Today’s Wanlockhead depends primarily on tourism. The Southern Upland Way long distance footpath passes through the village, but the main attraction for the motoring tourist revolves around the village’s industrial past. Information from Undiscovered Scotland. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/5 / ISO 200 / Focal length 44 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Wanlockhead and Lowland Scotland. Click here for a random page of photographs / /
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Beecraigs wood at the south side of Beecraigs Loch which is a well stocked man made fishing loch situated in Beecraigs Country Park in the Bathgate Hills of West Lothian, Scotland. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / 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. Featured in : HDR Photography : 18 July 09 Click here for a random page of photographs
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