Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Wishing that I had my Duck Wings on, my big painted Bill and my great bi...

Wishing that I had my Duck Wings on, my big painted Bill and my great big Galoshes out there with them, but I am not sure that They would like that

It starts terribly dark and it stays quite dim,

but the light available does get eke a way in.

There’s a wee trickle of goodly bird noise

and my voice hopefully discreetly deploys

a sound stratagem whisper friendly poised

so that the extremely fine feathered now gathered wild wonders

within their reed, sedge and slightly muddy safe splendid slumbers

and my wondrous hide joining and together enjoying bonded pleasance
continue heedless of my film embracing photographic personal presence


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RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven



Thursday, 27 March 2025

In here there’s a rhythmic almost heart beating door A secret sauce to i...

In here there’s a rhythmic almost heart beating door A secret sauce to improve the light source RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve


A Secret Source to improve the Light Source.

The camera settings record a brighter scene than that which is seen by the human eye and I can be heard saying the above, “A Secret Source to improve the Light Source,” at the end of the film. Pixel power searches into the dark to treasure receive the waiting wonders so as to best record them for later and for further enjoyment. Almost nothing to see here and what is to be seen is scene generated by A Secret Source to improve the Light Source with a wider eye to take in what is flying by and an electronic ear saving the wings on air and on water with hidden honk and silhouetted cry and a more sensitive sensor for experiencing the loch the shore listening in without reply and everything and all together under the intense colours of the sky.


The whole experience is the whole experience, with wonky horizons and shaky movements. I am now an ambassador of the wonky as I am at the permanent potential to go to the wonk and to glory in the results as age and injury grip me tighter and longer than loved ones ever have. The bad filming here is intentional for this to be a true record of the experience that still stirs me as I look back on it like a slice of repeatable immersive Electro Shamanism.


The end of the day is a fabulous break down. Everything of light that has been completed and the gentle encroach of night offers some respite before the glorious wonders woken before dawn all start again into the more active hours of the day. Please be gentle on my classification of, “repeatable immersive Electro Shamanism,” that is what I am experiencing on looking back into the fantastic after glow and fabulous sound garden of twilight. This is after sunset at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve.


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RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven



Sunday, 23 March 2025

Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Murmuring and Mutterings upon a...

Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Murmuring and Mutterings upon an entrance and life well defended and shared


There is a cloud with an unbelievable luminescence, you may wish to watch the proceedings witch include the progress in and up the Broch all the way to view the both amazing and as stated unbelievable cloud. This is an awe inspiring place, passed by many on the busy A9 and also enjoyed by lots too as these time worn stones are in a prime location now from the busy highway for the motor vehicle traveller and always upon the sea routes for raiding and trading, for living and loving within this once vibrant community firmly established here. Visible from the structure is the bay that most likely caused the Broch to be built and just a little further along from some centuries later there is the still imposing Dunrobin Castle & Gardens in view just to the South weaving a fantasy air bourne drifting notions of lineage from Brochs to Castles via shared safe dwellings to Clan Centres of influence and strategic importance throughout a much changing history shaped out potential history.


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Carn Liath Broch Near Golspie Sutherland Historic Environment Scotland https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/carn-liath-broch/


Carn Liath Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/6546/carn-liath


Dunrobin Castle & Gardens
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF THE HIGHLANDS

https://www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/



Friday, 21 March 2025

Now is the film time of our Garderobe of discontent adjunct to the now s...


Now is the film-time of our Garderobe of discontent adjunct to the now sealed Garderobe of discontent Rosslyn Castle in Roslin Glen Scotland


There have been modifications and new building work at Rosslyn Castle in Roslin Glen and the heavens above are no longer visible up through the Garderobe of discontent from the former midden below. The Sallyport contains root words of jump and door and the jump door was close to this dump shute. From former midden and possibly the groaning moat sometimes answered with a wash of the Roskelyn the swirling waters that carved out the foundational rock for the castle all the way with a fall to the stars.

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Historic Environment Scotland Rosslyn Castle, Roslin SM1208
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,SM1208

Canmore Roslin Castle Rosslyn Castle; Old Roslin Castle Canmore ID 51811

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Nothing less than dim spectacle to spectate upon here With a large winge...


Nothing less than dim spectacle

to spectate upon here.

With a large winged flight

of fancy at the end...


It might be too late for many and far too early for some. The quiet bird noises have been left quiet and distant. The window movement is mentioned before the sound of the movement, not at all dissimilar to an indicated Musical Movement and stop there on movement comparisons please. The whole experience is the whole experience, with wonky horizons and shaky movements. I am now an ambassador of the wonky as I am at the permanent potential to go to the wonk and to glory in the results as age and injury grip me tighter and longer than loved ones ever have.

The end of the day is fabulous break down. Everything of light has been completed and the night offers some respite before the glorious wonders all start again. This is after sunset at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve.

© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com


RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve

https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven



Friday, 21 February 2025

Abercorn Museum next to Abercorn Church

Saint Columba is also known as Saint Colmcille of Iona.


Saint Ninian is also known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, further he is also known as Ringan in Scotland and as Trynnian in Northern England.


Abercorn Church and the site of a noted Anglian Monastery are recorded in the small stone museum. The building is made of stone and it houses stone. Records left in stone speak through symbols and style across history to inform our minds.


In looking for further information I did find this,
COLUMBA AND NINIAN: TWO SCOTTISH SAINTS

Thesis : St. Columba is commemorated for having a greater influence on the spread of Christianity in Scotland than St. Ninian because Columba died better than Ninian.

Cindy Turner, 1758 Prof. Brad Doerksen HIST 237 A 26 November 2012

https://www.academia.edu/25553476/COLUMBA_AND_NINIAN_TWO_SCOTTISH_SAINTS


Do scroll to find the above link, if you wish and feel sure that it is available through other sites with the information above to guide you.

© PHH Sykes 2024


Outlander locations - Abercorn Church and Cemetery / Graveyard

Filming for season 4 took place at this churchyard in Linlithgow. The graveyard played the part, in ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’, of Frank’s final resting place after his fatal car crash. We see Bree visiting Frank’s grave shortly after his death.”

Abercorn Church and Graveyard is one of several Outlander locations in the surrounding locality. Barely a mile south is Midhope Castle (Lallybroch), and the much used Hopetoun House is an equal distance to the east. Blackness Castle, used as Fort William in season 1, is also nearby, less than 5 miles away.”

http://www.outlanderlocations.com/locations/abercorn-church/


Abercorn Church And Anglian Monastery

https://canmore.org.uk/site/49123/abercorn-church-and-anglian-monastery


Abercorn Kirk

https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/abercorn-kirk/


Abercorn Church, carved stones in Session House SM7545

https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,SM7545


Church and church museum, Abercorn, West Lothian

https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11831


Hog's Back Viking Graves

PDF Download – short and illustrated

NOTICE OF UNPRESCRIBED HOG-BACKED MONUMENTS AT ABERCORN

AND KIRK NEWTON.

BY THOS. ROSS, F.S.A. SCOT

http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/download/6982/6951



Friday, 29 November 2024

Lens Test 1, 2, 3 and 4 Testing 4K

Was there a tripod used, did I remember which lens took which pictures? There are pictures and they do tell me something, not in any science way as the pictures have been edited beyond testing the lenses. Now to go back and do it all for science and the opportunity to quest on a test and discover what is expressed not confessed.


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phhsykes@gmail.com