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Sorry this is the last puffin shot that I will put up for a while..but I just thought that this one was sooooo cute sitting on the rock with its fluffy feathers and its eye catching the light!!! This photo made Explore #244 on April 29th 2009
Mushrooms in the rain along the banks of the Bluther Burn while walking through Valleyfield Woods in Fife.
King James VI Scotland (James I of England) slept here. The King stayed at Kellie in 1617 during his only visit to Scotland after the Union of the Crowns as the owner, Thomas Erskine was an old friend and had save the king's life during the Gowrie Conspiracy.
Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth. It is east of, and contiguous with, Lundin Links.
Largo is an ancient fishing village in the parish of Largo. An excavated late 5th century cemetery points to an early settlement of the site, and there are records of the Knights Templar holding lands to the east of the town in the 12th century. It was made a "burgh of barony" by Sir Andrew Wood in 1513. This meant it had the right to erect a mercat cross and hold weekly markets, but not the extensive trading rights of a royal burgh. In 1654, Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu mentions Largo as "Largow burne-mouth" in his Nova Fifae Descriptio.
Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The house that now stands at his birthplace on 99-105 Main Street features a life-sized statue of Selkirk wearing self-made goatskin clothes, scanning the horizon. A signpost at the harbour points to Juan Fernández Islands, some 7,500 miles distant, where Selkirk lived for more than four years as a castaway.
The arrival of the railway in 1857 brought many tourists to Lower Largo's sandy beach. The village has retained many historic buildings from the 17th to 19th century, and in 1978 it was designated as a conservation area.
The Fife Coast Railway line through Lower Largo was closed in 1965 as part of the restructuring programme of British railways known as the Beeching cuts (overseen by Richard Beeching), and though it has been disused since then the viaduct that dominates the village remains an important local landmark. [Wikipedia]
St Monans is a village in the East Neuk of Fife and this breakwater can be found at the end of the harbour but is often missed due to being hidden behind a high wall and has been the subject of some excellent images from fellow flickr members.
It is a spot I have revisited regularly over the years and I always try to do a mix of my usual long exposure shots and then not so long…
More details on my blog:
www.framefocuscapture.co.uk/blog/2012/09/st-monans-fife/
Canon 5DMkII : 24mm : 1.3s @ f/16 : ISO 200
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