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
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Return to the Light at the right height with new made sight a gift from the Wight
I was lost in dim darkness and I was rewarded with the return to the day light.
© 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
A Cloud Passing
Casting Shadow
On A Paneless Widow
may both Be Zen and Not Zen
At once together separate alone crowded
singular plural divided union
one whole none present and gone
unattached belonging stateless hidden contracted compressed forgotten unremembered all hollow husk no seed
Only Zen if you wish to make it Zen.
I do find that focusing on photography is a way to manage pain and open windows like these can be paneless as subjects to see and to photograph on the ways towards painless destinations.
I could ask what is a window and what is a window frame and does a pane now fit into many answers of what makes a window. Empty windows and open windows, old, missing, sparse, defunct, deteriorated, eroding, former windows and potential windows all have forms and fashion to frame their definition.
Temple Kirk just outside Edinburgh in Scotland has land ownership links to The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, also known as Templar Knights, and then later on to The Order of Knights of the Hospital.
PHH Sykes ©2020
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/
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.
© 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/
The making of a Title Screen
One figure whether dark, or light
replaced with a sky from the same day
and railed in with virtual spiked iron
These
places have lived in my memory for an amazing amount of time. These
places and those that have some seeming similarity and that either
may, or might not be linked have lived in the minds of very many
people indeed. Sometimes they lay covered and forgotten for
generations and the stories of their return to light are often as
amazing as the place are themselves and then there are ideas about
the people that made these sites a set of stories by starlight that
illuminate the inner and feature everywhere we loon upon the outer.
What are they and how are they still here? Where life has not needed their stone and structure they have been left to ruin. Sometimes story and superstition has caused these outmoded places to be destroyed and also then again the very same stories and superstitions have at other times caused them to be left well alone. The light and the dark record days and they embrace and release shadows to pattern out the seasons. From food safe to initiation sacred place and absolutely everything in between storage and ritual comes to light our imagination when illumination is sought within and to burn bright with inspiration when answers come flooding back to the surface.
© PHH Sykes 2023
I just don’t know the way to words right now, so I am repeating the description from another film and set of 9 pictures, “The Old Man of Hoy Resplendent Rock and Shadow Face.”
Flickr Photographs and Film HD
YouTube 4K
https://youtu.be/g8LW0MrRZgQ?si=NpDe2j-F3ePm8cT0
The light is splendid and the scene is full of splendour. Nature made it, stories gave it threads enough to make a garment of imagination and inspiration and here it is just a lens away from my camera. Glorious natural Sun, Sea, Sky and Rock Stack all as one making a sight ready to be engaged with and adored.
I have lived with The Old Man of Hoy in my imagination and vision for several decades. From monochrome TV images through to colour TV and eventually to maps and to sight seeing. The good fortune to have bright light and rich shadow made several faces and on the rock and in the shadows it cast. The Man in the Sea Stack is seen with head and shoulders defining his full all in one image. The other shapes are there bring complex chaos to an otherwise single view.
Pareidolia is the name given to the phenomenon of our seeing faces and making out objects in what we see. We try to understand our world an our instant responses and reactions can be very true for us. The passage of the Sun through the year brings light from different angles to give us new shapes, silhouettes and shadows to enjoy.
I started to think,
Yes Old,
No not a Man
Both off and of Hoy and more
Yes to Hoy, Orkney Scotland and pushing via circuitous routes other islands and even mainlands too
...only in gentle contemplation.
© PHH Sykes 2023
The Sun made the shot, the Sea created the texture and the Sky gave the seeming backdrop.
Take a glorious supreme Sun and a great superb Sea and a grand splendid Sky and that is all it took.
Of course there could have been a Shore, a generous subtle Shore.
There was not a Shore, not a generous subtle Shore for viewers to generously serenely adore.
© PHH Sykes 2023
In the many rooms and also with out people come
and days, to weeks, to months, to years go on and on
This life is set out on a table and taken at bursts and blasts
Nothing ever holds and almost nothing ever lasts
Sometimes the table is an altar and the song is mass
No one is ever talking that much about Michelangelo
Everyone is talking so much about the world we know
And that world beyond this one is sung of in wistful song
There is a moment not yet made that is about to be played
There is never too little left that we have somehow unsaid
Failings ravings ravelling rambling ravening revealing and revealing
The seasons rolling on and on the threads tangling and holding on
[Just flickering and snickering notions set out in sometimes rhyming motions.]
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
Second Demonstration of a Canon Report from a Man at Arms at Dirleton Castle East Lothian Scotland
When there is a Man at Arms About be in no doubt that there is amazing potential ready to present to the greatest extent.
This is Film Two of the Second Report there is also a Film One of the First Report.
© PHH Sykes 2022
Dirleton Castle is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/dirleton-castle/
Dirleton, East Lothian, EH39 5ER
01620 850 465
First Demonstration of a Canon Report from a Man at Arms at Dirleton Castle East Lothian Scotland
When there is a Man at Arms About be in no doubt that there is amazing potential ready to present to the greatest extent.
This is Film One of the First Report there will be a Film Two of the Second Report.
© PHH Sykes 2022
Dirleton Castle is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/dirleton-castle/
Dirleton, East Lothian, EH39 5ER
01620 850 465
“Here be dragons” means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
It may be that Medieval Map Makers wrote, “Here be dragons,” to indicate untold dangers and to warn away some exploration, or at least ask any such explorers to bring back a few line illustrations to update maps, charts and guides. When I say Dirleton Castle Here Be Dragons, I mean Dirleton Castle Here Be Dragons. The Dragon was posing for pictures and stating that Photoshop was allowed to bring out his armoured scale magnificence and to sparkle the light of gentle soft slightly flaming snores illuminating sleepily tinkling pillowed to perfection golden hoards of the past, the present and those yet to come within his eyes.
I saw the Dragon Eggs hatch and fly away for Winter and it is possible that the Dragon, as pictured here, may have flown away til Spring 2023. Please do ask if you are looking to see either The Dragon, as pictured here, or The Nest, either with, or without The Eggs. The Dragon, The Nest, The Eggs and The Man at Arms Presentations are all worth a visit for and along with them there is a Castle and Grounds that are superb.
For updates on The Dragon, The Nest, The Eggs and The Man at Arms Presentations and for artistic recreations of Castles and Historic Scenes I follow their creator on Twitter.
Andrew Spratt @andrewsp2009
https://twitter.com/andrewsp2009
Dirleton Castle is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/dirleton-castle/
Dirleton, East Lothian, EH39 5ER
01620 850 465
I have copyrighted my work on the maps that are available for none profit use through,
National
Library of Scotland
https://maps.nls.uk/copyright.html
I only add as it gives me a way to help work with the use as linked above.
I will gladly grant copyright for none profit use of my work and I am not trying to make any profit from these images.
One Dragon and one picture lead to edits and inclusions with different arrows running through the numbers and letters of 70 Miles and then text inserted into an empty cartouche, “Lairs of Dragons open for visitors,” not to forget the two large above and below titles of, “Dirleton Castle,” at the top and, “Here Be Dragons,” at the foot. I have been consumed by Dragon, Maps and Text til I was nothing except Dragon edits. I have not configured every version of Dragon, Maps and Text possible and some of the completed designs have not made it to Flickr, YouTube and Blogger. Now I have to recover from Dragon consumption and find another focus once I am recovered. I have footage of a Knight in armour firing his cannon from a crenelated tower, the boom, boom is not yet filling the room, but like Mr. Toad I have heard the Thunder of the Future and in a Retrace Lightening Pathway I am accelerating aspects of The Past towards Fixations Of The fHuture*.
*FOTH - Fixations Of The fHuture are thoughts that flutter like moths til instead of them flying towards a source of illumination they have the light seek the person experiencing FOTH is the source of their illumination and the light travels towards the, at first small not too distant, FOTH and the intense focus of the person generates a metamorphosis to the friendly FOTH that expands and transmutes til is comfort blanket and furnace of inspiration with keys to unlock engaging experiences galore.
© PHH Sykes 2022
Polaroid PolarAid to view The PolaVerse with Lasting Instant Imaging 1 Lapiodro 2 Lipodaro 3 Lodiparo 4 Loopiard
Polaroid in extensions giving an insight into the potential in action as a box is opened…
Extension in order of increase,
1. Lapiodro – Square to light centre and four reversed Squardles
2. Lipodaro - Lapiodro Original Square Squaredly Squared upon itself now with sixteen reversed Squardles
3. Lodiparo – 16.9 Cinema Style Lipodaro Bi-Half-Squaredly Squared with thirty-two reversed Squardles
4. Loopiard – Lipodaro Squaredly Squared giving sixty-four reversed Squardles
Squaredly Squared – a process of squaring I think,
Bi-Half-Squaredly – possibly a reflection, or repetition in extension.
Squardles – same square of four, (or more), in opposite internal reflection to all of the other parts of the square-ish pattern.
Squarish – not quite a square created out of four elements that came together nicely.
Squared Sight Squarish Seeing Squardles and Squaredly Sites EVERYWHERE -SSSSSaSSE – SAsse is shortish term slight infection and by definition the apparent pixel printed grids and lined up light shines on envisioned 90 degrees that are part projection as you seek repetition and reflection.
© PHH Sykes 2022
