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Photographs: Architecture, Photographs: Scotland, Photographs: Travel

Stairway, Kelvingrove Art Museum

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“Stairway, Kelvingrove Art Museum” — A stairway and red walls at the Kelvingrove Art Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

This is a stairway at the Kelvingrove Art Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to being a wonderful art and history museum, it has a few other special features. As I understand it, the more impressive entrance (which we used) is actually the rear entrance, bordering on a park. The reddish stone used in its construction is eye-catching, too. And once we got inside we discovered that the main hall has a pipe organ used for regular daytime concerts.

Ending up here was perhaps a bit less of an accident than some of the other stops on this day. We had walked from our hotel in central Glasgow, heading toward the West End where we hoped to see some of the famous street art and murals. The route took us through the park next to the museum, so we had planned stop there along the way. But detours abounded, and when we spotted the nearby buildings of Glasgow University we ended up taking a side trip there, too.

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Photographs: Scotland, Photographs: Travel

Courtyard, Edinburgh Castle

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“Courtyard, Edinburgh Castle” — Visitors in a courtyard at Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle dominates the view in the popular, touristy part of Edinburgh — the Old Town and New Town Areas. It is in the former, at the upper end of the “Miracle Mile” that stretches up to it from Holyrood Palace. Yes, it is a tourist attraction now, but it is also a “must see” spot. It comes with a lot of important Scottish history, and it provides great views of much of Edinburgh.

Once you enter the grounds of the castle, your path generally ascends toward the upper structures by following a rough counter-clockwise loop. As you ascend the views become even more striking, particularly in that they now include the structures of the castle itself. I made this photograph from that upper level, looking down and across a courtyard and lower buildings and beyond.

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Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Blue Stone Vortex

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“Blue Stone Vortex” — Curving and intersecting fractures in Sierra Nevada rock under stormy skies.

While I’m often drawn to the large scale landscapes, intimate landscapes appeal to me, too. The big photos do give the grand perspective of the landscape, but I think that images of smaller elements and components of the larger scene can tell us just as much about a place. And their sometimes-abstract nature lets us see the landscape in new ways that we perhaps had not thought of.

The grand landscape was not cooperating when I I photographed these rocks. It had been raining and it was still very cloudy. Are the rocks really this color? That’s a good question! The landscape looks different under various sorts of light, and often our vision system “corrects” for this and we do not notice it. I knew that the overcast was having an effect, but until I opened this photograph (and others made at the same time) in post, I had not realized just how blue the light was. Sometimes I “correct” these strong colors, but this time I decided to go with it.

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Light Beam, St. Giles Cathedral

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“Light Beam, St. Giles Cathedral”— Light from an upper window forms beams inside St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.

We concluded our three weeks in Scotland earlier this year with a few days in Edinburgh. This marked one extreme on the continuum of our visit, with the opposite end defined by a week spent walking the quiet trails of the Great Glen Way. Edinburgh, of course, is not just a rather large city, but it is also a place that attracts crowds of tourists, even when we were there before prime tourist season. Since it was our first visit to the city we had to, of course, visit some of the famous sites.

On the day we arrived by train we checked into our little hotel, located on a quiet side street less than a half mile from the famous Edinburgh Castle. After getting settled we set out on foot, walking toward this landmark at the upper end of the Royal Mile. We had not done much research, which means that we got to be surprised by “discovering” places like St. Giles’ Cathedral, the subject of this photograph.

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