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The sunset tonight was beautiful. After the sun had set, the sky was pink, and the lake was pink and blue.
Lake Ontario's water level is quite high this spring, so much that the beach is completely gone and the piers are closed in Port Dalhousie.
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Dating from 1887 and built in the local red sandstone, the Dalhousie Arch spans the B966 south of the Angus village. It commemorates the 13th Earl of Dalhousie and his wife, who died on the same day in 1887 from separate causes. The ornate tower seen beyond the arch is the Inglis Memorial Hall of 1897.
I became familiar with Edzell during the 1980s after my mother remarried and moved to Kirriemuir, just a few miles away. I confess that it is only now that I learned the story behind the Edzell arch: I had long thought that it was associated with an even grander arch over the B966 just a few miles north, at Fettercain. That arch had been constructed during the 1860s to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert when they were on their way to Balmoral.
August 1983
Yashica FR1 camera
Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg, Edinburgh, Midlothian
The Ramsays of Dalhousie have played a fascinating role in the long and tangled history of their beloved Scotland – and they managed to keep possession of Dalhousie longer than any other family held onto a Scottish castle. Dalhousie was built in the 13th century – the era of Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, and the Magna Carta – but only the thick foundation walls and vaults remain of the original building. The main parts of the majestic residence you see today were built around 1450, using red stone quarried from just across the South Esk River.
The patriarch of the clan was Simundus de Ramesie (Simon of Ramsey), an English knight of Norman descent from the Huntingdonshire village of Ramsey. Simundus, a vassal of David, Earl of Huntingdon, followed his lord to Scotland in about 1140 when David inherited the Scottish crown. He is considered the founder of the Ramsay clan and the first to have lands at Dalwolsey.
Dalhousie Castle has seen much history. King Edward I (Longshanks) stayed at the castle on his way to meet Sir William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk. In 1400, Sir Alexander Ramsay withstood a six-month siege at Dalhousie by English forces led by King Henry IV. Oliver Cromwell used the castle as a base for his invasion of Scotland.
At the turn of the 20th century, the seat of Clan Ramsay was moved to Brechin Castle, although the Ramsay family continued to retain ownership of the castle until 1977. At the time of the sale, Dalhousie had been in the same family for more than eight centuries, longer than any other castle in Scotland. Throughout the 20th century, the castle was leased out to a series of tenants including a boarding school. It is now a luxury hotel owned by the Von Essen Hotels company.
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One of my photo assignments for the Dalhousie Gazette. I had to take a picture for a story about lesbian hand-holding.
In other news, I'm thinking of doing the 365 project. Hmmm...
I shall think about it while I have my mid-afternoon lunch.
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Camera Model Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Shooting Date/Time 1/29/2018 12:17:03 PM
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On the way back from the piers at Port Dalhousie Beach in the now Regional City of St Catharines, Ontario, in frigid cold (-15C/+5F), I looked back and saw an opportunity to get a near-symmetrical shot of some of the beach stands used in more clement weather to provided services to the bathers and beach volley ballers (is that a term?). Now nicely closed up and under a protective cap of snow, they none-the-less offered ad nice colourful set of panels to contrast with the snow and sky. The beach on Lake Ontario lies behind this building. A bit of colour on a cold day. - JW
Date Taken: 2017-12-29
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF-P DX Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 lense set to 70mm, ISO200 (Auto ISO), Shutter Priority mode, f/4.5, 1/2000 sec with and EV+0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 9000wide and also crop off top, bottom and right side to get a near-symmetrical panoramic framing that eliminates some distracting building details, set exposure to +1.25 stop over (brighter than) as-shot, very slightly increase contrast and also increase Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly modify the tone curve to brighten the mid tones and slightly darken the bottom end of the curve, reduce a very small green cast using the colour balance tool, sharpen, save, scale image to 8300x4000 (wanted the 4k vertical dimension and the horizontal just followed the scaling), sharpen slightly, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
Le CP 132 (Schiller Park, IL - Brownville Jct, ME) approche de Dalhousie Mills sur les ondulations de la sub. Winchester, à la brunante.
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CP 132 (Schiller Parl, IL - Brownville Jct, ME) approaching Dalhousie Mills on the undulating Winchester subdivision, at dusk.
Dalhousie square (now known as- B.B.D. Bagh) is the first modern office district of entire south Asia, occupying an area of over two square kilometres across the famous Laal Dighi, the plaza is ringed by historic architecture, colonial structures, office spaces, lush gardens, theme-parks, stadiums and many more.
"So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.”
― T.S. Eliot
The curtain wall, as far as we can tell, was fairly featureless, except for the gatehouse. There was a dry moat or fosse outside the curtain wall, and as I mentioned before, the vertical slots or 'rainures' in the wall above the door were for the drawbridge counter balance beams that supported the drawbridge that crossed it.
Inside the curtain, only the enormously thick walls and vaults of the ground floor survive from the old castle, which was built around 1450. Within the walls the old bottle-dungeon still survives, into which prisoners were lowered by rope - if they were lucky! The Drum tower which dates from the 15th century has a well at ground level which that once supplied the castle