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
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
Now is the film-time of our Garderobe of discontent adjunct to the now sealed Garderobe of discontent Rosslyn Castle in Roslin Glen Scotland
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
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/
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
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
Within the newly roofed original stone confine
was a way marked out to encounter the divine.
Step by step I moved in closer to the moment
My heart beat in my ears was a rhythmic stream
There could have been an ordeal a wyrd torment
For every connection ever made, even almost made
I was lost in dim darkness and I was rewarded with the return to the day light.
Somehow, somewhere in darkness there was a blinding glimpse of second sight.
Return to Re-burn as Re-torn and Reborn
© PHH Sykes 2023
Entrance Interior Graffiti and Summon to Surface Wideford Cairn Orkney Scotland
If only… If only I had time to edit the footage and stills into a great presentation? If only I could bend a little more like I used to be able to, so many if only questions were miracle managed away into workable answers?
“If only,” is where it is. This film is something from 2023 that I did manage to get to. The whole trip was full of virtual potholes in the road for me rather than being resplendent with entrances to another world. Where and when I could I let go of this current consciousness and found what was waiting underground.
Then I called back and left the home for bone in the stone womb and found the surface full of another world as the current climate rapturously unfurled, commination curled and all heath and hell burly hurled as past consciousness updated in a global reset and the seasons fell away to the power of heating warming homes where we enjoy a much more stable life within a much more enriched skin no scarce hunt, no sparse fishing trip will reach our larders, we are all empowered within our guarded borders.
© PHH Sykes 2023
Wideford
Hill Chambered Cairn Kirkwall,
Orkney
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/wideford-hill-chambered-cairn/
Megalithic Portal - Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=178
Wideford
Barrow / Cairn
Cemetery
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8428/wideford.html
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/215/wideford_hill.html
The village of Temple in Midlothian is where the Knights Templar held their primary and principal Preceptory in Scotland. There are some trees that might follow along lines of previous structures. There is a patch of rough ground that may one day be archaeologically be further investigated generating more detail about this site. For now there is a ruined kirk managed by TEMPLE OLD KIRK FRIENDS, please see the link below. The kirk is well worth a view, but it is not old enough to be a Templar building, there could be a reuse of stone still holding information held right now within the present structure. The stone archway pictured here is quickly photographed as I chatted of knights, of bold deeds, of traditions of yore and of the way forward we can create to reach out and to become legendary for peace making and social caring as we all make one world a safer, better and happier a place to be.
The pictures start with the arch that stands even though it is heavily worn by time. We progress away from the archway and look briefly at the significant trees standing with the stones over centuries. There are pictures that show a tree that is slowly breaking back down into the ground. There are pictures of the nearby old school that stands close to the arch. Any structure close by might have opened up and then sealed in some historic evidence. The evidence focussed upon today can be microscopic soil structure and also hue. The ground holds secrets here and one day further archaeological excavation might open up new details. Til then we have the archway behind the old school and our imagination.
From this spot you can look out to the ports of Edinburgh, to the Firth of Forth and across to Fife. This place stands secure once within it’s own sovereignty. The inspirational stories of old seem to have a fine place here to reside.
© PHH Sykes 2023
TEMPLE OLD KIRK FRIENDS
https://churchmonumentssociety.org/2021/12/14/temple-old-kirk-friends
Nothing failing here except for me. Memory saved here through a window with a storm obscuring some of the view and with purposeful out of focussing helping the rendition along into bright baubles. The memory being saved was in part my not being able to access the out of doors and also the geographic location too.
© PHH Sykes 2023
Avian Circle the first film following the birds around
The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland
The birds chirped and swooped in fragmentary swarms and mutterings bordering upon mini murmurings. The sound and sight was amazing. In taking pictures around The Earl’s Palace at Birsay I missed a major murmuring and a jumbled muttering, but at least I did catch something of the Avian Circle following the birds around The Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland.
© PHH Sykes 2023
Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Birsay, Orkney
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/earls-palace-birsay/
Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LX
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/brough-of-birsay/
There was the whole fantastic ruin of The Earl’s Palace at Birsay and as I was being asked to leave my final frames were of this plant seemingly trying to get into the scheduled monument. I was being told that we had other places to go and that it was Refreshments O'clock. The woody stems had my imagination in over drive.
This is a second film presentation with much less strong stressed images. There is a greatly reduced soundtrack. Altogether less sometimes is more, we all have our perception to please.
I nearly wrote tease, please and release, but I thought better of that, the hedgerow has more than enough of plenty within it’s burgeoning boughs.
© PHH Sykes 2023
Earl’s Palace, Birsay, Birsay, Orkney
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/earls-palace-birsay/
Brough of Birsay, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LX
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/brough-of-birsay/
