Ritual
This is another shot from my Saturday night prowl around the Dunira Estate in Perthshire. This overgrown & neglected yew-lined avenue leads to the family burial plot of the Dundas* family who once owned the estate. It sits in a forgotten corner. I found it surprisingly creepy! I'm not used to that.
All I did here is prop my torch on the iron gate into the burial ground pointing back up the avenue (at the camera) to backlight it and then I stood there and spun my LED lights in a circle. I was gearing up to spinning an orb & did do one later but I kinda like this one better.
For me yew trees are all about symbolism: death, immortality, renewal, regeneration, everlasting life, rebirth, transformation and a link to our ancestors and the dead. They are found in churchyards- or churchyards are found by yew-trees(many predate the buildings by them).
[*This is the same Dundas family whose most famous son was Henry Dundas, aka Viscount Melville who bought the estate in the early 1700s and who has a Nelson's Column type statue in St Andrew's Square in Edinburgh. The small burial plot contains 3 brothers all killed in WW1 (one on the Western Front, one in the East African campaign and one in a hospital bed in India from wounds recieved). There is also a gravestone to a 2yr old girl who died onboard a ship travelling to Australia. Life was cheap in those days... ]
Ritual
This is another shot from my Saturday night prowl around the Dunira Estate in Perthshire. This overgrown & neglected yew-lined avenue leads to the family burial plot of the Dundas* family who once owned the estate. It sits in a forgotten corner. I found it surprisingly creepy! I'm not used to that.
All I did here is prop my torch on the iron gate into the burial ground pointing back up the avenue (at the camera) to backlight it and then I stood there and spun my LED lights in a circle. I was gearing up to spinning an orb & did do one later but I kinda like this one better.
For me yew trees are all about symbolism: death, immortality, renewal, regeneration, everlasting life, rebirth, transformation and a link to our ancestors and the dead. They are found in churchyards- or churchyards are found by yew-trees(many predate the buildings by them).
[*This is the same Dundas family whose most famous son was Henry Dundas, aka Viscount Melville who bought the estate in the early 1700s and who has a Nelson's Column type statue in St Andrew's Square in Edinburgh. The small burial plot contains 3 brothers all killed in WW1 (one on the Western Front, one in the East African campaign and one in a hospital bed in India from wounds recieved). There is also a gravestone to a 2yr old girl who died onboard a ship travelling to Australia. Life was cheap in those days... ]