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.
©
PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
You sir are a magnificent Bull in Bo’ness near Carriden The Witches Stone and Roman Antonine Wall Sites here with Pictish Burghead in Moray overlay
This magnificent Bull in Bo’ness had me thinking of Pictish Art and their Symbol Stones. Their animal symbols survive to this day where their language is now none existent. The wonderfully evocative decorated stones are found at Pictish Sites with the striking lines flowing and curling like waves of energy form both the outlines and internal structure of the subjects. At Burghead in Moray several Bull symbols were found leading some to believe that the Bull was a symbol venerated here, maybe a marker not unlike those later used in Heraldry to tell a story of identity that is linked to landscape and to those who control it. The notion of totems as good luck and potent identifying markers of person and of people, of individual and of tribe to set a motif of identity within this material world and an icon within all spiritual realms too.
This particular carved stone is displayed in London in The British Museum and thought so highly of that a replica cast is held in Edinburgh at The National Museums Scotland. This Bull is also incorporated into the current Logo for The Moray Society Elgin Museum. There is a cast in The Elgin Museum amongst other Pictish Symbol Stones. The symbol stones from Burghead are numbered 1-6 and this one is catalogued as,
Burghead 5, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: 0.53m, W 0.53m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 109 691
Present location: British Museum, London (1861.10-24.1) (cast in Elgin Museum)
Evidence for discovery: one of many bull carvings said to have been found during quarrying of the wall of the upper citadel to find building stones from around 1800 onwards, of which six have survived (Macdonald 1862). This stone was found sometime before 1809, when it was exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and it was in private hands in London for many years before being presented to the British Museum.
Present condition: good.
Description
The triangular shape of this slab may indicate the preferred form for these bull stones from Burghead. One broad face is incised with the most ferocious image of a bull to have survived, pacing angrily towards the right with his head lowered far down and his tail swishing across his rump.
Date: seventh century.
This is a cast of a stone found at Burghead in Moray. It is one of a number of stones carved with bull symbols, found in and around the site of the Pictish fortress at Burghead. They date from between 500 and 800.
Like the other stones, the bull is naturalistically depicted, with scrolls defining the joints where the limbs meet the body.
The large fort at Burghead was a major Pictish settlement. A number of carvings have been found there, many depicting bulls. Various theories have been put forward to explain their significance, including religious, territorial emblems or clan totems.
“Interpretation of the stones' original role has varied. Some scholars have suggested they were displayed on the fort's ramparts as symbols of power; others have seen them as having a votive role in a frieze as part of a pagan fertility cult; while others argue they were standing stones lining a processional route through the ramparts, a role suggested by their likely original kite-shaped form.”
Noble, Gordon (2019). “Fortified settlement in northern Pictland,” Noble, Gordon; Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh. Quote p.54, ISBN 178027551X. 1788851935, 9781788851930
Exhibited:
2001-2002 12 Dec-28 Feb, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, The Unidentified Museum Object
1998 18 Apr-12 Jul, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Celtic Art
Elgin Museum Carved Stone Collection
Burghead 5, cast of syMbol stone with bull (ELGNM 1892.1)
https://youtu.be/liuNaY-glfI?si=JLiGMcyf6O-yZ8Uo
Burghead Bulls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghead_Bulls
Burghead Bull (cast)
https://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-104-159-C
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1861-1024-1
The Burghead Bull Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/319205/burghead
Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North, The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2019.
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-king-in-the-north-2/
A moment in the tower of the church erected upon Egil’s island, Egilsay, Egilsey and even Eagleshay where Saint Magnus Erlendsson an Earl of Orkney was martyred
The island has been recognised under several names and the church here has been venerated as the site of the martyrdom of Saint Magnus. The legend of Saint Magnus Erlendsson an Earl of Orkney born in 1080 and died on 16 April 1117 has been passed down to us even if some believed it more and less. Please see the quote below for those that found a proof to substantiate the legend into history, the vita that is the living even holy writings of a hagiography.
© PHH Sykes 2024
“The island is largely farmland and is known for St Magnus Church, dedicated or re-dedicated to Saint Magnus, who was killed on the island in 1117 by an axe blow to the head. For hundreds of years the story of St. Magnus, part of the Orkneyinga saga, was considered just a legend until a skull with a large crack in it, such as it had been stricken by an axe, was found in the walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.”
Egilsay Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egilsay
Maybe a Manic either Bunny or Bear Shadow Feature Creature on the wall with Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating
I do
not wish to dwell on the traits and fates of Gladiators. The history
of Murmillo and their opponent does show the Roman attitude of
barbarian til the Gauls in this case were subdued and turned into a
Client Kingdom so their former bestial character was withdrawn from
the Arena and the Murmillones needed a new opponent in their live
action and potential death games. The helmet here has a history and a
continuing present.
Using a Sinar camera with artistic lens and a Sony digital mirrorless camera gives a warm feel to to the pictures. The Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45 SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating is great older lens. It has features and characteristics developed from previous models and made wonderful in this incarnation of the lens. “Fujifilm also pioneered Electron Beam Coating (EBC) which according to Fujifilm, represented a new high in lens precision and performance*.” Up to 18 coatings can be applied by Fujinon to improve lens capabilities reducing and even eliminating flare whilst improving contrast. In old lens debates the coatings are heated topics of conversation, discussion and complete disagreement. The coating debate can get hotter and less controlled that Fujinon’s once fame platinum crucibles designed and used to obtain the purest glass. Many photographers are finding that old lenses and camera enclosures can work marvellous well with new digital cameras. Old cameras, lenses and equipment are current enjoy a second, third, fourth and more life as they are looked to again to produce the detail they were imagined for and the production of wonders that they were never designed for.
Murmillo
The murmillo (plural murmillones) or myrmillo wore a helmet with a stylised fish on the crest (the mormylos or sea fish), as well as an arm guard (manica), a loincloth and belt, a gaiter on his right leg, thick wrappings covering the tops of his feet, and a very short greave with an indentation for the padding at the top of the feet. They are heavily armoured gladiators: the murmillo carried a gladius (64–81 cm long) and a tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus.
Thraex
The Thraex (plural Thraeces, "Thracians") wore the same protective armour as the hoplomachi with a broad rimmed helmet that enclosed the entire head, distinguished by a stylized griffin on the protome or front of the crest (the griffin was the companion of the avenging goddess Nemesis), a small round or square-shaped shield (parmula), and two thigh-length greaves. His weapon was the Thracian curved sword (sica or falx, c. 34 cm or 13 in long). They were introduced as replacements for the Gaulish gladiator type after Gaul made peace with Rome. They commonly fought myrmillones or hoplomachi.
Hoplomachus
The hoplomachus (Romanised Greek for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore quilted, trouser-like leg wrappings, loincloth, a belt, a pair of long shin-guards or greaves, an arm guard (manica) on the sword-arm, and a brimmed helmet that could be adorned with a plume of feathers on top and a single feather on each side. He was equipped with a gladius and a very small, round shield. He also carried a spear, which he would have to cast at his opponent before closing for hand-to-hand combat. The hoplomachi were paired against the myrmillones or Thraeces. They may have developed out of the earlier '"Samnite" type after it became impolitic to use the names of now-allied peoples.
Some Sinar Camera Details
“The name SINAR is an acronym that encompasses the prime applications in the fields of still, industrial, nature, architectural and reproduction photography.”
At times the name SINAR is rendered into different titles the above quote and link is from an English version of a 2011 press release, “Sinar Photography AG Acquires the Brand Rights of Sinar AG,” Zürich: Sinar Photography AG. April 2011. The S in Sinar has also been stated as standing for studio, Sache, or science.
Whilst Sinar still make amazing cameras this is an older version and it is not the latest and greatest. In fine age it is still a picture taking marvel, but not easy, not handy and not great to transport. Then you luxuriate into the results and suddenly the struggles of lifting and moving of the all manual operation and friendly challenges of light metering seem to be gone for a few treasured moments of appreciation and even longer still as you think where next for a Sinar experience.
© PHH Sykes 2024
*Fujifilm also pioneered Electron Beam Coating (EBC) which according to Fujifilm, represented a new high in lens precision and performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujinon
Fujinon 75mm f5.6 - f45 SWD Super Wide Deluxe EBC Electron Beam Coating
http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/byseries.htm
Sinar
https://sinar.swiss/products/cameras/
List of Roman gladiator types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_gladiator_types
Artistic gentle focus lens Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 with a little history of the Murmillo Thraex as Gaulish replacement and Hoplomachus Gladiator
I do not wish to dwell on the traits and fates of Gladiators. The
history of Murmillo and their opponent does show the Roman attitude
of barbarian til the Gauls in this case were subdued and turned into
a Client Kingdom so their former bestial character was withdrawn from
the Arena and the Murmillones needed a new opponent in their live
action and potential death games. The helmet here has a history and a
continuing present.
Using a Sinar camera with artistic lens and a Sony digital mirrorless camera gives a warm feel to to the pictures. The Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 gives several versions of itself through itself without additions and then through aperture and diffusion discs sometimes referred to as sieve apertures and they are also called sink strainers. Many photographers are finding that old lenses and camera enclosures can work marvellous well with new digital cameras. Old cameras, lenses and equipment are current enjoy a second, third, fourth and more life as they are looked to again to produce the detail they were imagined for and the production of wonders that they were never designed for.
Murmillo
The murmillo (plural murmillones) or myrmillo wore a helmet with a stylised fish on the crest (the mormylos or sea fish), as well as an arm guard (manica), a loincloth and belt, a gaiter on his right leg, thick wrappings covering the tops of his feet, and a very short greave with an indentation for the padding at the top of the feet. They are heavily armoured gladiators: the murmillo carried a gladius (64–81 cm long) and a tall, oblong shield in the legionary style. Murmillones typically fought a thraex, but occasionally the similar hoplomachus.
Thraex
The Thraex (plural Thraeces, "Thracians") wore the same protective armour as the hoplomachi with a broad rimmed helmet that enclosed the entire head, distinguished by a stylized griffin on the protome or front of the crest (the griffin was the companion of the avenging goddess Nemesis), a small round or square-shaped shield (parmula), and two thigh-length greaves. His weapon was the Thracian curved sword (sica or falx, c. 34 cm or 13 in long). They were introduced as replacements for the Gaulish gladiator type after Gaul made peace with Rome. They commonly fought myrmillones or hoplomachi.
Hoplomachus
The hoplomachus (Romanised Greek for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore quilted, trouser-like leg wrappings, loincloth, a belt, a pair of long shin-guards or greaves, an arm guard (manica) on the sword-arm, and a brimmed helmet that could be adorned with a plume of feathers on top and a single feather on each side. He was equipped with a gladius and a very small, round shield. He also carried a spear, which he would have to cast at his opponent before closing for hand-to-hand combat. The hoplomachi were paired against the myrmillones or Thraeces. They may have developed out of the earlier '"Samnite" type after it became impolitic to use the names of now-allied peoples.
Lens
details Rodenstock Imagon 300 mm H=5.6 (for 13×18 cm)
In a
joint effort with the pioneering photographer Heinrich Kühn, who, as
a pictorialist, was artistically seeking for "romantic softness
without sugariness, blurring without a woolly effect"[1] in
images and had been experimenting with binocular lenses and soft
filters and rasters in the 1920s already,[1] the lens was technically
designed by Franz Staeble [de],[1][2] founder of the optical company
Staeble-Werk [de] in Munich, Germany.[1] The resulting lens was
marketed as Anachromat Kühn. Later in 1928,[1] the lens became the
Tiefenbildner-Imagon, which was introduced by Rodenstock in 1930/1931
and produced up into the 1990s. The unusual term Tiefenbildner is a
German composition, which can be best translated as "depth-of-field
creator, modulator or painter" in an artistic sense; this
designation was later dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenstock_Imagon
Some Sinar Camera Details
“The name SINAR is an acronym that encompasses the prime applications in the fields of still, industrial, nature, architectural and reproduction photography.”
At times the name SINAR is rendered into different titles the above quote and link is from an English version of a 2011 press release, “Sinar Photography AG Acquires the Brand Rights of Sinar AG,” Zürich: Sinar Photography AG. April 2011. The S in Sinar has also been stated as standing for studio, Sache, or science.
Whilst Sinar still make amazing cameras this is an older version and it is not the latest and greatest. In fine age it is still a picture taking marvel, but not easy, not handy and not great to transport. Then you luxuriate into the results and suddenly the struggles of lifting and moving of the all manual operation and friendly challenges of light metering seem to be gone for a few treasured moments of appreciation and even longer still as you think where next for a Sinar experience.
© PHH Sykes 2024
Rodenstock Imagon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenstock_Imagon
Sinar
https://sinar.swiss/products/cameras/
List of Roman gladiator types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_gladiator_types
Too much eye colour, I put my iris into some mono pictures and so now obviously I have gone too far with the process
There is a film file with 15 of these loch side portraits without the coloured eyes. After initially setting my iris from the original colour pictures into 7 of the mono versions I should have stopped having gained all the information required. The original pictures are taken with the selfie camera and in processing they have been resized to that of the front camera. From 2880 x 3840p they have been enlarged to 3060 x 4080p. Yet dpi is down from 96dpi to 72dpi. The quick cut original colour iris of the eyes with a touch of brightness is not very fitting to a calm portrait, but it does show the edge of detail and the strength of separation in contrast and definition. If the pictures were from either a better lit scene, or from a better resolution lens and camera then the iris would be easier to select and better to view. By using the small iris as the target in the pictures the quality of the image is shown when a viewer enlarges the image to look just how well fitting the coloured iris appears in the images. Overall for a selfie camera on a phone the selective colour on the portraits is very good indeed.
Loch Ness quick self portraits taken in between experiencing the wonders available in, on and around this iconic location. The location chosen here was the near anonymous car scene, rather than the amazing beauty and of course the changeable wonderful views available just beyond the confines of the near anonymous vehicle. Of course we saw the monster(s) and they were very friendly and also maybe most importantly there was no ‘chompy chomp chomp’ whilst in the loch. They requested no pictures please at this time as they were scale moulting for their Winter Sheen coat, so instead you have images of the monstrous elusive me. My eyes as pictured have been edited in Adobe Lightroom both ‘Sclera’ and then ‘Iris and Pupil’ functions were jiggered with. There are 15 portraits in total in the film version, I will not load them all as JPEG files, rather a I will just share a couple of examples. The tests mentioned are to jog my memory of settings and functions and to learn how best to record a scene for my digital memories that are my proposed ‘ones and zeros’ for future viewing happiness. Tech can be kind and emotionally supportive as we all finding out, it can also fail drastically.
©
PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Meanwhile momentarily meandering if that is at all personally pose possible
Loch Ness quick self portraits taken in between experiencing the wonders available in, on and around this iconic location. The location chosen here was the near anonymous car scene, rather than the amazing beauty and of course the changeable wonderful views available just beyond the confines of the near anonymous vehicle. Of course we saw the monster(s) and they were very friendly and also maybe most importantly there was no ‘chompy chomp chomp’ whilst in the loch. They requested no pictures please at this time as they were scale moulting for their Winter Sheen coat, so instead you have images of the monstrous elusive me. My eyes as pictured have been edited in Adobe Lightroom both ‘Sclera’ and then ‘Iris and Pupil’ functions were jiggered with. There are 15 portraits in total in the film version, I will not load them all as JPEG files, rather a I will just share a couple of examples. The tests mentioned are to jog my memory of settings and functions and to learn how best to record a scene for my digital memories that are my proposed ‘ones and zeros’ for future viewing happiness. Tech can be kind and emotionally supportive as we all finding out, it can also fail drastically.
© PHH Sykes 2024
Panorama by Panning Shot video movie file versus still image mp4 v. JPEG also ‘Option 4.’
Let me first of all mention low light conditions, that being said I should introduce this as the third part of my, “How best to record a place by mobile phone?” The first part consisted of three images made using the Panorama function. The second section consisted of 7 images made in Photoshop from JPEG image file off the phone.
Option 1.
The Panorama files looked superb, when enlarged they appeared to be made up of small parts to convey light and shape in the image, a look that could appear very well in certain circumstances.
Option 2.
The original JPEG image files off the phone looked sharp and more photographic than the Panorama function created files which looked very painterly. The Photoshop Panoramas were superior photographic files, but they were created with monthly fees to Adobe for both Lightroom and Photoshop Cloud.
Option 3.
These video files are three quick representations of the scene and show the climatic condition and more of the scene in great photographic detail. To many this could be the best solution to record something of the moment that best displays that moment.
Option 4.
Finally if you have recorded and edited the above three options you can make ‘Option 4.’ which is a combination of the above three edited into a video file and if you wish you can share that files to the places that you prefer.
If you have read this far and seen the film footage you maybe wondering when I am going to mention Tilting? Only here in the description am I mentioning that Tilting and Panning gives a film file a massive advantage for recording the scene. There could also be a question of why no Landscape Format Footage in Letter Box Settings? Again the test I am looking at is limited and the Letter Box to fit say 16.9 ratio and many screens currently in use would be superb and it is ‘Option 5.’ which of course demands another visit and a complete remake of all footage with suitable breakfast loch side wearing and including my cherished ‘Pictish Trousers’. The breakfast footage is the backdrop to the still images, this footage includes the hopefully cheery, “Hello,” just before the film files play with their backdrop being a stretched version of themselves, unfortunately their focus is superb on the close shore and that gets stretched out of view.
The text below was written to accompany both, ‘Options 1.’ and ‘Options 2.’
The constant movement on the Loch helped generate the changes that direct sunlight and cloud also shape moving around the vast body of water and over and through the stunning scenic valley. The changes bring thousands of views worthy of pictures and of grand panoramas. Here I was trying out the Panorama function on my phone and also taking individual pictures to stitch into panoramas in Photoshop. I would have taken some pictures of myself at the loch side, but no panorama neither phone function, nor individually stitched could have captured my smile.
If you look briefly at either set of panorama they make for a good quick look. If you zoom in on 3 phone made panoramas you will see that the details are rendering as if with heavy oils and either a dabbing technique with a brush, or by using a palette knife. The individual pictures retain a lot more photographic detail. For all sorts of the reasons the two effects could each be considered perfect for different purposes. For me there was a quick test and now there are some results that I enjoy as they are great memory revivers. Just a few glances at the wider pictures brings back the open wonders of the landscape and it also starts a process of me remembering some of the fine details including loch side breakfast and star gazing. Thinking of Highland Hobbit Life has me generating a glow that is awe-mazing, yes amazing and somehow even more than amazing.
© PHH Sykes 2024
The dark cross suddenly revealed inscribed in shadow by the Sun along the way to Hawthornden Castle
There are some good links below. My reflected images don’t get many views, here they are though. Some pictures I take I see the reflection opening up the scene. Here the dark cross caught my eye and the potential to extend the original image from a landscape orientation and then from a portrait orientation fired my mind and then, and then someone rose from their lower perspective photography and stood in my scene. Suddenly I was woken from my image making dream. They were a great photography companion and the only reason that I was there and out and about with a camera. No shade on them for elevate themselves from a close-up photography Yoga pose focused on a flower I believe. They can puncture my composed dream frames anytime, also in any place and in all space and none, even if their puncture power means the dream scene has gone.*
The Sun will shine and cast shadows and in inspecting them we can tell the time. We can see line and with a care we can watch the minutes and hours pass as the line moves. If we wish we can look at light as the generative creator of life and we can see shadow as an opposition a place that will not respond to the clarion call of the Sun. Shadow and shade bring about their own distinct wonders and Shadow is created and directed in constant movement by light of varying intensity. We humans have considered good and bad omens from the force of the Sun and from the reaction of shade, shadow and subterranean sunless places as well as the phase of the Moon displaying reflected radiance of the Sun and at times the Moon shrouds the Sun in eclipse of amazing exactness gifting sight of the edge the immediate crown of the star that illuminates us and leaves us to the further distant view of the other stars and planets by night. All this to say Sun and Shadow, direct light and reflection and refraction all the time in world seemingly making and recreating signs and symbols that we divine as the language of light and the symphony of dark. Light is light and lack of light is either less, or even total darkness with no need to try to read the light and to listen to the dark. After this mention of omen and even prediction everything below this is information about the absolutely stunning location.
Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.
Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.
The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.
*The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit is currently available from the Akashic Records at wherever you usually Yoga access them. They can help you achieve stone solid results and icon Sphinx like waking scenes and also avoid all frame puncture at every photographic juncture. Higher State close lens search for Dream Scene Puncture Repair in Khemtastic Pack IV Pharaoh Awakes near potential pyramid lakes. If you have not found The Dream Scene Puncture Repair Kit then join the rest of us that either have to recompose and take another dream scene, or move on literally figuratively and even spiritually if your dream close to fulfilment was such a wondrous scene.
© PHH Sykes 2024
Hawthornden Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
https://www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327
Roslin
Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation
and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen,
which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
https://www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_country_park
Roslin Glen Country Park
'Wallace's Cave'
https://canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
https://canmore.org.uk/event/712032
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778
The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600012599
Hawthornden Castle a bright gem basking in the Spring Sunlight beyond the shadows embraced in the foliage of Rosslyn Glen
Hawthornden Castle stands atop several layers of caves that have been extended into amazing chambers visited by many famous people on their Scottish tours. The castle is one of three close together all taking advantage of the steep escarpment that offers natural rock protection above the North Esk river flowing swiftly below. Roslin Glen is home to Rosslyn Castle and many believe the Holy Grail resides here too, there are wonderful legends and fantastic natural formations throughout the glen, plenty enough to enjoy even beyond the quest for the Holy Grail.
Linked below are Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth from the Google Art Project and both Roslin Glen cared for by Rosslyn Chapel Trust, as well as Roslin Glen Country Park and also Wallace’s Cave, the other cave and prehistoric rock carvings.
The Hawthornden Foundation is linked below they are a part of bigger project with events and hosting writers to stay in places such as Hawthornden Castle for a month of focused literary working days.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Hawthornden Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Nasmyth_-_Hawthornden_Castle,_near_Edinburgh_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
https://www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
https://www.hawthornden.org/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM6825
ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00327
Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
https://www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
https://www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_country_park
Roslin Glen Country Park
https://g.co/kgs/bdC6DQf
'Wallace's Cave'
https://canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
https://canmore.org.uk/event/712032
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600000778
The monument known as Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/document/600012599
I hope that no one except myself has seen these exact views and heard this soundtrack before I share it online as I believe that I live alone and now I have started asking myself about anyone else watching in on my world more than I do already. This is a Saturday morning and the outer limits of a husk of hollow Saturn ideas are even now sinking further into my bones. The hollow nature of a Saturnian dilemma provides it with fashion and form without certain supposed strength that in lacking a less standard body evades any and all concept of vital validity that gives determined deleting a chance, a hope and even sometimes a success. The bone sinking, shadow self initiating alone questioning and oh so chirpily chorused enchanted incanted answered response(s) is / are hopefully not yours? I will do a long awaited never anticipated welcome home now to a new ‘alone’ thought not easily shared with others, unless...
With a sound recording from the other Loch shore the never seen before in the title could be added to with, “and a never heard before soundtrack.” Sometimes digital files like their analogue predecessors get overlooked in all too busy lifestyles and when you looking through your own stoory drawers you never know if you are finding the right files to be sharing. The ruined, yet still tall and impressive Tower House of Urquhart Castle is a pearl of keep on string Curtain Wall that hosted other towers and a larger entertaining facility of the Great Hall. The ruins are superb gem stones preserved as they are showing us the former high need for tall castle walls and the current protection for historic conservation rather than fortification ready for both siege and domination.
Urquhart Castle stands a ruins still tall and proud attracting tourists to see and to dream of the history and mystery that they find both in and around this place. The stones hold on to the memories that are created in their situation and the reliving of so much Scottish history here brings about great sharing and caring for the past in and on through the struggles and the successes. Like a Loch Edge Loom this site catches the breezes and only lets them loose after they have left a little of their voice here. Even the rising mists give their impressions from out of the earth upon their way to the heavens above. Somehow this attraction is able to weave the sounds of winds and the magic moments of mists creating long lived legends into historic themed treasured tapestries that illuminate the progress of the tourists, the routes chosen by the pilgrims and the seeking minds of all of the visitors.
© PHH Sykes 2024
Urquhart Castle by Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, IV63 6XJ
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/urquhart-castle/overview/
Urquhart Castle
https://canmore.org.uk/site/12547/urquhart-castle
Urquhart Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urquhart_Castle
Sometimes the night blossoms
and blooms forth in the day
burgeoning in dark ripe buds and berries
never to be found in May
always out in September
all trace gone by March fulfilling November
I to the hills
King James Bible
I Will Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills
1 {A Song of degrees.} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
© PHH Sykes 2023
“The Boleskine House Foundation, a registered Scottish charity.”
Boleskine, Old Boleskine Church, Burial Ground, Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/100574/boleskine-old-boleskine-church-burial-ground
The Boleskine Burial Ground
https://southlochnessheritage.co.uk/boleskine-burial-ground/
Inky Black Night sound and vision Five Locks of the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus leading from Loch Ness to Loch Oich
Water held in a man-made marvel of a magnificent embrace is never still, the flow of force continues all along the water course, no matter how much we hold we also need to allow the wonders to work their way through the paths that we direct them to and in this technology of traversing the land we make the current of water our float to balance upon bringing trade and commerce and now tourists and photo takers to enjoy the waters held and flowing always alluring and glowing.
Image stabilisation and video edited satbilisation* are not enough to quite the unwanted jiggles and jerks leading to over under works of hopefully charming quirks.
*satbilisation technology® is image stabilisation as if the camera operator was sat comfortably in a happy mood enjoying the scene and convey the at ease feel with warm glow sentiment to the viewer. The emerging satbilisation technology® does not even have uppercase letters as capitals would be too rise and fall, stand to attention and take sharp notice.
Standbilisation Technology® has stand up from the lowercase and be counted as uppercase place markers as it is all about being on top of the message and all over the theme with with magnify lens and a deer-at-heart-of-hart none stalk -er / -ing hat.
© PHH Sykes 2023
°CineStill TCS-1000 “Temperature Control System” You cannot see it but this one has a UK Plug
I have been lost in Photoshop. I was having ideas in Lightroom and they led to edits and on to Photoshop CS and from there they are stretching out towards some notion of motion pictures. I have not used this Film Temperature Control System. I have been calling a film cooker. It looks superb and it comes with a three pin U.K. Plug fitted ready for accurate simmering film into tender toner and sharpish shadows and might fine highlights.
I have used two fonts to give °CineStill a look as it has in the packaging.
