Lovely Scratchies Live, Mini Shetland Pony Whispering and a Bad (poor) Song from a none rhyming Tour-rest all at a Distance with Closed Road Diversion in place
My bad song is correctly judged by these Shetties that get much better songs when I am not singing them.
© PHH Sykes 2025
A Dream Revisited Kodak Ektachrome FILM Emulsion and ILLUSION Ilfochrome INVOKED and Cibachrome EVOKED with Crystal Ball Reflection and Projection
The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.
These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.
The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.
I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.
As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.
I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.
An Ektachrome DREAM Kodak FILM Emulsion and ILLUSION Ilfochrome INVOKED and Cibachrome EVOKED into imaginings of my memories
The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.
These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.
The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.
I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.
As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.
© PHH Sykes 2025
I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.
Railway Working Discovered Deep Detritus Dump with, “Yes, wonderful things!” and Me looking like I am ready to give way to the Detritivores Trimontium Museum Melrose Scotland
I am fortunate that my companions will sometimes take my portrait. Here I have been captured in Alternative Focus, (not the AF as listed in Manufacturer’s Manuals and Gear Guides). The in camera adjustments may not be what I believed was happening as I posed, but it has delivered some superb share worthy images. The Film Tiles have been cropped from 4.3 to 16.9 Format to fill the screen without reducing the width in any way at all. The Film Title Screen is comped of a single image cropped and edited into four versions.
All text is rendered in Arial Font to please the photographer who is enamoured of Arial above all other letterset manufactured iconic meaningful symbol shapes. Photographer prefers not to be credited. I did set the camera ready for my 15 Frames of Fame and as such can be indicated as failing to express my vision and in so doing receiving Alternative Focus, (not the AF as listed in Manufacturer’s Manuals and Gear Guides), which here in these images I appreciate with grateful thanks, thank you for picturing me. I look forward to MF AF and AF in the future.
MF Manual Focus
AF Auto Focus
AF Alternative Focus, (not the AF as listed in Manufacturer’s Manuals and Gear Guides)
© PHH Sykes 2025
Trimontium
Museum, Melrose,
Discover the fort at the heart of Roman
Scotland with Trimontium Museum!
Local or Legionary asks the notice next to four archaeological exhibits two skulls and two heads in The Trimontium Museum Melrose Scotland
A silent face recreated from out of an excavation at Trimontium Fort, bones left in a possible rush maybe discarded, or revered given a voice from modern testing.
Yorick, no, alas this is not a known individual. Hamlet to the skull of Yorik state he was, “a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times;... Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?” William Shakespeare in his play Hamlet druring Act V Scene i has Hamlet remember the Jester and can see his memory align with the skull so famously brought to light and theatrical acclaim as new grave being dug discovers the fleshless head of Yorick.
The flesh has been put back on this skull now in The Trimontium Museum with scientific exact reconstruction. My quickly taken pictures are not accurate representations of the exhibits and have no relevance, or reflection of the superb work completed.
This skull excavated from deep within a pit inside the Roma Fort of Trimontium ask questions that may never be answered and it is also the source of modern examination and scientific revelation. The information given in the exhibit states that a tooth from this find has shown that the individual was between 35-46 years old and he lived locally from around Moffat in Scotland just South of Trimontium Fort site and also South of the Trimontium Museum.
© PHH Sykes 2025
Trimontium
Museum, Melrose,
Discover the fort at the heart of Roman
Scotland with Trimontium Museum!
The
following is
from
https://hub.catalogit.app/trimontium-museum/folder/9ada1330-a68c-11ef-ab2b-4d14608fffba
“Name/Title Skull Reconstruction
Entry/Object ID E.2023.13
Description Fully reconstructed head of skull found in pit at Trimontium.
Use The purpose of this reconstruction was done to give a face and partial identity to the individual's skull found during the 1905 - 1910 excavations at Trimontium by James Curle. The reconstruction was carried out by Professor Caroline Wilkinson in 2003. His skeleton was found almost erect with a spearhead by his side. It has been speculated whether he was a Roman soldier or a native, in which case he might have adorned the ramparts as a warning to the enemy, a practice which can be seen in such places as Trajan's column in Rome.
Further DNA analysis of the skull was carried out recently and results will be published soon.
Collection Trimontium Trust
Category Skeletal Remains
Human remains Made/Created
Artist Information Artist Caroline Wilkinson
Role Sculptor
Condition Overall Condition Good
Synton Hoard
Object/Artifact
-
Trimontium M”
https://hub.catalogit.app/trimontium-museum
The
Trimontium Trust &
Museum
https://www.facebook.com/TheTrimontiumTrust?locale=ne_NP
“A man found down a well - these images show the facial reconstruction by Professor Caroline Wilkinson taken from the skull of a man found in one of the pits at Trimontium. He might be a Roman soldier & his skeleton was found almost erect with a spearhead by his side.”
Yorick
“The
name Yorick has been interpreted as an attempt to render a
Scandinavian forename: usually either Eric or Jørg, a form of the
name George.[3] The name Rorik has also been suggested, as Saxo
Grammaticus wrote that this was the grandfather of Amleth, who served
as the inspiration for Hamlet.[4] Alternative suggestions include the
ideas that it may be derived from the Old Norse name of the city of
York (Jórvík),[5] or that it is a near-anagram of the Greek word
Kyrios and thus a reference to the Catholic martyr Edmund
Campion.[6]”
“David Tennant used the cranium of pianist
André Tchaikowsky for Yorick's skull in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare
Company production.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorick
André Tchaikowsky
“Tchaikowsky died of colon cancer at the age of 46 in Oxford.[1][7] In his will he left his body to medical research, and donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company, asking that it be used as a prop on stage.[8] Tchaikowsky hoped that his skull would be used for the skull of Yorick in productions of Hamlet.[9] For many years, no actor or director felt comfortable using a real skull in performances, although it was occasionally used in rehearsals. In 2008, the skull was finally held by David Tennant in a series of performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.[10]
After the use of Tchaikowsky's skull was revealed in the press, this production of Hamlet moved to the West End and the RSC announced that they would no longer use Tchaikowsky's skull (a spokesman said that it would be "too distracting for the audience").[11] However, this was a deception; in fact, the skull was used throughout the production's West End run, and in a subsequent television adaptation broadcast on BBC2.[12] Director Gregory Doran said, "André Tchaikowsky's skull was a very important part of our production of Hamlet, and despite all the hype about him, he meant a great deal to the company."[12]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Tchaikowsky
New Asgard and Thorn not likely, I look so different today that this
looks like someone else and neither of us are Thor likely
Erm, so the interior in the St Abbs Visitor Centre. Everything is a Seagull’s cry into the abyss. I am loading this for the photographer that took these pictures and put up with my many mumbles and un-appt abbservations.
This visitor centre is on the road to Coldingham from St Abbs.
The Priory is just out of the picture, it is linked below. It is just inland from Coldingham Sands and St Abbs.
This as close as can be to New Asgard from Marvel films including Thor enjoying a new place by the sea.
© PHH Sykes 2024
and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
Welcome to The St Abbs Visitor Centre
https://www.stabbsvisitorcentre.co.uk/
Coldingham Priory, claustral remains SM383
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM383
Coldingham Priory
Church including former hearse house and store, graveyard, boundary
walls, gatepiers and gates and excluding scheduled monument SM383,
Coldingham
LB4059
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB4059
Coldingham Priory plan Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1532083
COLDINGHAM PRIORY TIMELINE 1098 -2015
https://www.coldinghamparish.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/COLDINGHAM-PRIORY-TIMELINE-Copy.pdf
The John Gray Centre brings together East Lothian Council’s Archaeology, Museum, Archive and Local History Services, alongside Haddington’s branch library.
https://www.johngraycentre.org/
Dig Timeline Daily updates and up-to-the minute action from Coldingham
https://projects.digventures.com/coldingham-priory/timeline/
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
©
PHH Sykes 2024 and
2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve
https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven
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.
©
PHH Sykes 2024 and
2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve
https://www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/loch-leven
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.
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
https://www.dunrobincastle.co.uk/
Now is the film-time of our Garderobe of discontent adjunct to the now sealed Garderobe of discontent Rosslyn Castle in Roslin Glen Scotland
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
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.
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.
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
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
