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Every two years, Vaslui (Romania)becomes the capital of humor. Uninterrupted held biennial International Festival of Humour "Constantin Tanase" reached edition XXIV, on 2-9 October 2016. Gala theater comedy contest interpretation parlors caricature and humorous literature are the landmarks of this long lasting festival. Actors, writers, humorists, epigram and caricature artists from the country and abroad will meet in Vaslui for a week to celebrate the spirit of Tanase.
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Folder : Nicolas TERRY
Paper : 35x35 cm from a new korean Hanji that I'm testing
Hi, in my interpretation I have chosen our beloved Danbo for an just cause, I think. Daily sitting, lying or who are begging on the street in hot or cold, we kind-hearted, not see them. For us they are invisible.
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All and all the photographic set was created by me.
Note well the details, the wall looks like an american construction, the phone also.
The murales instead recalls Paternò, my little country, at the feet of Etna in Sicily (Italy), and I with the red shirt.
”He reflected for a while, then said, ’I can’t make anything of the first one. It’s very probable that a displacement is involved, but there’s no way of guessing what the intermediate elements are. For the second I’d venture an interpretation if the person reporting it as his own were not a Frenchman."
My interpretation of Glinda the Good Witch in The Whiz
youtu.be/DHzx2P4x63c?si=svSaKyA31g1dqP2v
Backdrop: SATO Magical Dreamy Backdrops
Outfit :
Madame Noir - Gilda Gown
Madame Noir - Dalia Cap
Malandra- Sensual Diamond Dress 15
Madame Noir - Zee Boots
Hair: Stealthic Resist
Sub zero. 3 shot multi exposure with canon dsr All in camera even the wavy horizon courtesy of the imagine stabiliser in the lens!
Une interprétation photographique de la chanson de Maxime Leforestier « Comme un arbre dans la ville «
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Je suis né dans le béton
Coincé entre deux maisons
Sans abri sans domicile
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai grandi loin des futaies
Où mes frères des forêts
Ont fondé une famille
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Entre béton et bitume
Pour pousser je me débats
Mais mes branches volent bas
Si près des autos qui fument
Entre béton et bitume
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai la fumée des usines
Pour prison, et mes racines
On les recouvre de grilles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai des chansons sur mes feuilles
Qui s’envoleront sous l’œil
De vos fenêtres serviles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Entre béton et bitume
On m’arrachera des rues
Pour bâtir où j’ai vécu
Des parkings d’honneur posthume
Entre béton et bitume
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Ami, fais après ma mort
Barricades de mon corps
Et du feu de mes brindilles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
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A photographic interpretation of Maxime Leforestier's song "Like a tree in the city"
Like a tree in the city
I was born in concrete
Stuck between two houses
Homeless homeless
Like a tree in the city
Like a tree in the city
I grew up far from the forest
Where my forest brothers
Founded a family
Like a tree in the city
Between concrete and bitumen
To push I struggle
But my branches fly low
So close to the cars that smoke
Between concrete and bitumen
Like a tree in the city
I have the smoke from the factories
For prison, and my roots
We cover them with gates
Like a tree in the city
Like a tree in the city
I have songs on my sheets
Which will fly away under the eye
From your servile windows
Like a tree in the city
Between concrete and bitumen
I will be torn from the streets
To build where I lived
Posthumous honor parking lots
Between concrete and bitumen
Like a tree in the city
Friend, do after my death
Barricades of my body
And the fire of my twigs
Like a tree in the city
Stately and striking, Haddo House casts a huge impression from the moment you set eyes on it. Designed in 1732 by William Adam, the house underwent an opulent remodelling in the 1880s. As a result, it has the clean elegance and swooping lines of the Georgian style with a luxurious Victorian interior. Family portraits trace generations of Gordons, who played a huge part in Scottish history. George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen was Lord Chancellor of Scotland; the 4th Earl served as Prime Minister. More recently, Haddo was a maternity hospital during World War II – over 1,200 babies were born here. In 2016, a painting of the Madonna at Haddo received a lot of attention when it was identified as being probably by Raphael. We’re now working with Dr Matthias Wivel, curator of 16th-century paintings at the National Gallery in London, to try to arrive at a definitive attribution for this beautiful painting. The house is surrounded by a terrace garden with a lavish herbaceous border and geometric flower beds. A magnificent avenue of lime trees leads to Haddo Country Park. www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/haddo-house
Black and white interpretation of that lovely vista. With the fabulous FFF+ group. St Kilda in winter
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Week 20
(Teleidoscope - Week #17 "Mythology")
So I said a couple weeks back that I had created a couple images for a Theory of Knowlegde project that describe language through the medium of music and tie those interpretations of the songs to a visual aid. I choose to display my own pictures, with the songs that inspired them. I loved being able to show my pictures and add the soundtrack to it while looking at them, but my favorite part was seeing others share their favorite songs and they're personal connection with each song.
This image was based on my good friend Serena's project :) Serena is one of the most original, open minded, free spirited, wanderlust filled, artistic, and just plain whimsical people I know. Her music project reflected exactly that, with her description and interpretation of the song "Float On" by Modest Mouse being my favorite. She said it reminded her of jellyfish, and how they just float along and let the water push them without care. The song reminds her that in tough times, everything will be ok and we'll continue to float on. I've included her music choices below :)
Frederic Chopin - Nocturne In E Flat Major, Op.9 No.2
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I also chose to do this image for the Teleidescope theme of "Mythology" because Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and they are scientifically catigorized in the Subphylum Medusozoa :)
Asteroid Bennu's boulder-covered surface gives it protection against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft.
Bennu is a “rubble-pile” asteroid, meaning that it formed from the debris of a much larger asteroid that was destroyed by an ancient impact. Fragments from the collision coalesced under their own weak gravity to form Bennu.
This image shows asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface. It was taken by the PolyCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 11, 2019 from a distance of 2.8 miles (4.5 km). The field of view is 211 ft (64.4 m), and the large boulder in the upper right corner of the image is 50 ft (15.4 m) tall. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the southern hemisphere, pointing PolyCam far north and to the west.
Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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Elizabeth Winnifred Wood ( October 8, 1903 - January 27, 1966) known as Elizabeth Wyn Wood, was a Canadian sculptor and advocate of art education. A notable figure in Canadian sculpture, she is primarily known for her modernist interpretation of the Canadian landscape in her works.
My interpretation of the Mad Tea Party from the Book Alice in Wonderland
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Mi interpretación de la Fiesta de Té Loca del libro Alicia en el País de las maravillas
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Dropped out t Killalea reserve to see the art installations today ... some great works on display I thought I'd share my interpretation of them..
It's now the turn of the “Marguerite de la Fare” series to be somewhat completed with new photos, which I hadn't initially chosen. Of course, this does not alter the storyline. The additional photos have been inserted where appropriate, in the scripted chronology of the series (see album).
This picture is part of my photographic series "Marguerite de la Fare", which I invite you to consult in the list of my albums. You will find the script in the album header, and by consulting the shots in their chronological order, paying attention to their titles, you can follow the story of Marguerite de la Fare's early years, according to my free interpretation.
Model : Océane
The conventional English translation appeared in John Heywood's collection of Proverbs in 1546. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable also credits Erasmus, and relates it to other Latin proverbs, Planta quae saepius transfertus non coalescit, or Saepius plantata arbor fructum profert exiguum, which mean that a frequently replanted plant or tree (respectively) yields little fruit. It appears that the original intent of the proverb saw the growth of moss as desirable, and that the intent was to condemn mobility as unprofitable. The contemporary interpretation has turned the traditional understanding on its head.
Erasmus's proverb gave the name "rolling stone" to people who meet this description.
What would i do without Wickipedia!?
Anycheese, more interestingly, this is Wistmans Wood. A magical and enchanted woodland full of knarly, twisted, stunted Oak trees and mossy granite boulders. I have been here many times, never before with camera. It is soooo difficult to get a composition. The woodland is thought to be one of the few remnants of ancient woodland on Dartmoor dating from prehistoric times. Apparently the wood is haunted by a pack of Yeth hounds and it is from here that they start their wild hunt across the moorland. They follow their master, who may be the Devil, Odin, or any number of spectral huntsmen on the search for souls across the moorlands. The dogs are described as jet-black in colour snorting fire from their nostrils. Coooool! Didnt see any though.. I will go back on a full moon and really take some shots.
Because I wasn't too happy with the way the pic was turning out. I toyed with filters and decided to make it artistic interpretation instead. Gave it an ethereal look. Guess it's partly the mood I am in.
The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
More than a decade earlier, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions in his will for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, Saint Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Giuseppe Cesari, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as Cesari became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed.[citation needed] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): "Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed Him." Caravaggio depicts Matthew the tax collector sitting at a table with four other men. Jesus Christ and Saint Peter have entered the room, and Jesus is pointing at Matthew. A beam of light illuminates the faces of the men at the table who are looking at Jesus Christ. This is a depiction of a moment of spiritual awakening and conversion, which was something many Baroque artists were interested in painting, especially Caravaggio.
There is some debate over which man in the picture is Saint Matthew, as the surprised gesture of the bearded man at the table can be read in two ways.
Most writers on the Calling assume Saint Matthew to be the bearded man, and see him to be pointing at himself, as if to ask "Me?" in response to Christ's summons. This theory is strengthened when one takes into consideration the other two works in this series, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. The bearded man who models as Saint Matthew appears in all three works, with him unequivocally playing the role of Saint Matthew in both the "Inspiration" and the "Martyrdom".
A more recent interpretation proposes that the bearded man is in fact pointing at the young man at the end of the table, whose head is slumped. In this reading, the bearded man is asking "Him?" in response to Christ's summons, and the painting is depicting the moment immediately before a young Matthew raises his head to see Christ. Other writers describe the painting as deliberately ambiguous.
Some scholars speculate that Jesus is portrayed as the Last Adam or Second Adam as titled in the New Testament. This is displayed in Christ's hand as it reaches out towards Matthew. It is almost a mirrored image of Adam's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the namesake of Caravaggio. Twice in the New Testament, an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV). In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam".
I took this photo seconds after I took the photo that became a monochrome. In this shot, the fog obscured the buildings even more.
Digital art interpretation.
Une interprétation photographique de la chanson de Maxime Leforestier « Comme un arbre dans la ville «
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Je suis né dans le béton
Coincé entre deux maisons
Sans abri sans domicile
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai grandi loin des futaies
Où mes frères des forêts
Ont fondé une famille
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Entre béton et bitume
Pour pousser je me débats
Mais mes branches volent bas
Si près des autos qui fument
Entre béton et bitume
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai la fumée des usines
Pour prison, et mes racines
On les recouvre de grilles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Comme un arbre dans la ville
J’ai des chansons sur mes feuilles
Qui s’envoleront sous l’œil
De vos fenêtres serviles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Entre béton et bitume
On m’arrachera des rues
Pour bâtir où j’ai vécu
Des parkings d’honneur posthume
Entre béton et bitume
Comme un arbre dans la ville
Ami, fais après ma mort
Barricades de mon corps
Et du feu de mes brindilles
Comme un arbre dans la ville
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A photographic interpretation of Maxime Leforestier's song "Like a tree in the city"
Like a tree in the city
I was born in concrete
Stuck between two houses
Homeless homeless
Like a tree in the city
Like a tree in the city
I grew up far from the forest
Where my forest brothers
Founded a family
Like a tree in the city
Between concrete and bitumen
To push I struggle
But my branches fly low
So close to the cars that smoke
Between concrete and bitumen
Like a tree in the city
I have the smoke from the factories
For prison, and my roots
We cover them with gates
Like a tree in the city
Like a tree in the city
I have songs on my sheets
Which will fly away under the eye
From your servile windows
Like a tree in the city
Between concrete and bitumen
I will be torn from the streets
To build where I lived
Posthumous honor parking lots
Between concrete and bitumen
Like a tree in the city
Friend, do after my death
Barricades of my body
And the fire of my twigs
Like a tree in the city
An interpretation of "Three Obliques (Walk In)" by Barbara Hepworth.
Beyond Limits 2015, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
APOLOGIES: I originally posted this last night. However, when I posted a second image this morning (direct from Lightroom CC), it appears to have deleted the original post along with comments / faves etc. I have no idea what Lightroom has done (or why). My apologies to anyone who has taken the time to comment on the original.
Abstract interpretation of the Limestone quarry in Faxe, Zealand.
It is hard to imagine, that 20,000 years ago, this area was covered by massive ice.
63 million years of history, exposed by Denmarks largest man-made hole in the ground: A 110 acre open quarry that has been the site of limestone production for over 900 years.
See the Limestone Quarry album here:
Sepúlveda, Segovia.
Sepúlveda es un municipio y villa de la provincia de Segovia, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León, (España).
En su término se encuentra parte del Parque Natural de las Hoces del Río Duratón y en la localidad está el Centro de Interpretación de las Hoces del Duratón (sito en la Iglesia de Santiago) en el que se puede ver todo lo relacionado con el Parque Natural y con Sepúlveda.
Sepúlveda está declarada Conjunto Histórico-Artístico desde 1951 y forma parte de la Asociación Los pueblos más bonitos de España.
Sepúlveda is a municipality and town in the province of Segovia, autonomous community of Castilla y León, (Spain).
In its term is part of the Natural Park of the Sickles of the Duratón River and in the locality is the Interpretation Center of the Hoces del Duratón (located in the Church of Santiago) where you can see everything related to the Natural Park and with Sepúlveda.
Sepúlveda has been declared a Historic-Artistic Site since 1951 and is part of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain.
A noire interpretation of the interplay between sun and steam rising from open water on the St. Lawrence River. Just downstream of Cornwall's hydroelectric dam. This section of the river never freezes due to the swift current. Some parsnip, a common species here, seems to be looking for inspiration, on this, the coldest day of the winter (-40C with the windchill). In the large view, a couple of ducks are headed upstream.
Berlin, Gardens of the World, Chinese 'Dule Yuan' Garden Cabinet: Traditionally, such a garden includes a hut woven from living bamboo, but this is a modern interpretation
"Die Beschäftigung des Menschen mit sich selbst ist nicht erst seit dem Aufpoppen von Yogastudios und Meditations-Apps en vogue. Die introspektive und unabhängige Denkweise war z. B. bereits ein zentrales Element der gelungenen Lebensführung chinesischer Gelehrter. Sima Guang, Politiker, Historiker und Gelehrter aus der chinesischen Song-Dynastie, erschuf im 11. Jahrhundert einen Garten, der dieser Lebensführung angeblich besonders zuträglich war: den Dule Yuan, übersetzt in etwa „Garten des abgeschiedenen Vergnügens“. In einem Aufsatz beschrieb er die Struktur und die landschaftlichen Höhepunkte des Gartens. Seither kommt dem Dule Yuan ein herausragender Platz in der chinesischen Gartenbaugeschichte zu.Die Gestaltung des Gartens geht zurück auf ein Gemälde des Dule Yuan aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Seine geometrische Achsenstruktur setzt sich aus einem Bambuspfad, einer rechteckigen Platzfläche und einem Wasserkanal zusammen. Blickfang und beliebtes Fotomotiv des Gartens ist die modern gestaltete, stählerne und in Gold lackierte Bambushütte, die sich harmonisch in die sanfte Geometrie der sie umgebenden Gartenlandschaft einfügt. Durch die umliegenden Spiegelflächen entsteht eine vertikale Tiefe, die die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Natur verschwimmen lässt. Ganz im Sinne des Dule Yuan sind die Spiegelflächen außerdem Schnittpunkte zwischen Realität und Imagination, zwischen Sehen und Gesehenwerden. Dieses fließende Raumbewusstsein ist es, was die spirituelle Essenz chinesischer Gärten ausmacht."
Beschreibung übernommen von der Website der Gärten der Welt
www.gaertenderwelt.de/gaerten-architektur/internationale-...
"The preoccupation of humans with themselves hasn’t only been in fashion since the advent of yoga studios and meditation apps. Introspective and independent ways of thinking were, for example, already a central element of the way of life of Chinese scholars. Sima Guang, politician, historian and scholar of the Chinese Song dynasty, created a garden in the 11th century that was said to be particularly beneficial to this lifestyle: the Dule Yuan, translated as "Garden of Secluded Pleasure". In an essay he described the structure and landscape highlights of the garden. Since then, the Dule Yuan has maintained a pre-eminent position in Chinese horticultural history.The design of the garden is based on a painting by Dule Yuan from the 16th century. Its geometric axis structure is composed of a bamboo path, a rectangular plaza and a water channel. The garden's eye-catching and popular photo spot is the modern designed steel bamboo hut painted in gold, which blends in harmoniously with the gentle geometry of the surrounding garden landscape. The surrounding mirror surfaces create a vertical depth that blurs the boundary between man and nature. In the spirit of the Dule Yuan, the mirror surfaces are also intersections between reality and imagination, between seeing and being seen. This fluid awareness of space is what makes up the spiritual essence of Chinese gardens."
Description taken from the web site of the Gardens of the World.
www.gaertenderwelt.de/en/gardens-architecture/internation...
This picture is for the group Macro Mondays and this week the theme is "My Favourite Novel (Fiction)".
This is my interpretation of "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.
It's hard to chose one favorite book but this one by Ray Bradbury stands out. My favorite authors are Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Robin Cook.
I'm the type of person that prefers holding a book in my hand versus reading on a device. I also think that I prefer fiction simply because it lets your imagination run wild.
Hopefully we never become a society that decides that books are of no use.... especially printed books.
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A rare vertical for me. I practically never shoot them. But I liked the upward movement from the foreground sand ripples to the rolling dunes and the sliver of sky.
When I think of sand dunes and photography, I think black and white. The natural white environment coupled with shadow areas is just made for B/W interpretation. Here are my attempts to capture the beauty of White Sands National Park in this medium. Most are shot in hard light, but some are early or late in the day, some even approach high key. White Sands looks great in any wardrobe.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) a memorial relating the historical impact of and on Bomber Command during the Second World War. Located on Canwick Hill, overlooking the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire.
The city of Lincoln was selected for the location of the IBCC because 27 RAF Bomber Command stations (over a third of all Bomber Command stations) were based in the county during World War II. The large amount of airfields led to Lincolnshire being nicknamed the "Bomber County".
Located at Canwick Hill, the centre is just under two and half miles from RAF Waddington, which suffered the greatest losses of any Bomber Command station, and close to the former Avro aircraft production facility at Bracebridge Heath. A view of Lincoln Cathedral, a prominent landmark for aircrews, forms an important part of the vista from the centre of the Memorial Spire.
The aim of the IBCC is to tell the personal stories of members of the RAF Bomber Command, ground crew and civilians impacted by the bombing campaigns during the Second World War. The centre will also provide a comprehensive record of the role of Bomber Command's squadrons and to digitally display historical documentation and photographs relating to the activity of Bomber Command.
Within the grounds of the International Bomber Command Centre the Spire Memorial was erected on 10 May 2015. The memorial is a spire, reflecting the connection to Lincoln Cathedral. Created out of Corten A weathering steel, it is based on the dimensions of the wingspan of a Lancaster bomber, being 102ft high and 16ft at the base. The Spire was officially unveiled in October 2015 to an audience of 3,600 guests including 312 Bomber veterans.
The spire is encircled by walls carrying the names of all 57,871 men and women who gave their lives whilst serving in or supporting Bomber Command. This is the only place in the world where all these losses are memorialised.
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Centre d'Interpretation de la Nature du Lac Boivin, Granby.
These little devils are so small and so shy, they are very tough to spot and photograph. But when you are lucky enough to have a juvenile this close that is as hungry as show-off, you get 5 grown men shooting like crazy!
Photo 6 of this series
Newburgh is a large stone-built village on the wide sandy estuary of the River Ythan, close to the point at which it is bridged by the A975. he origins of the village date back to 1261 when a charter was drawn up by Lord Sinclair establishing a settlement here. A little later it acquired the Chapel of the Holy Rood and St Thomas the Martyr in Inch Road. The Chapel is long gone, but the Udny Family Mausoleum which formed part of it can still be seen in the Holyrood Cemetery. art of the name of the original chapel also survives, in the imposing Holyrood Chapel on Main Street. This was originally built as a school in 1838, and the clock tower was added in 1892. The village itself developed as a centre for salmon fishing, and later as a small port. By the 1850s there was a steady traffic of boats and barges calling at the newly built quays on the River Ythan. And by the 1880s there was a small fleet of sailing vessels based here, alongside a dozen resident fishing boats. A little earlier, in 1828, Newburgh became the first port in Scotland to have a Lifeboat Station, then called the Shipwreck Institution. The RNLI, as the Institution became, based a lifeboat in Newburgh until 1961, when it moved to Peterhead. In the 1950s Newburgh remained an active port with quays and a mill. Much of its economic base had declined by 1970, but the corner was turned - as with so many settlements in north east Scotland - with the discovery of oil under the North Sea. Newburgh, with its attractive setting and within commuting range of both Aberdeen and Peterhead rapidly became a desirable place to live. Today's Newburgh is an active and thriving settlement. At its centre is the Udny Arms Hotel providing accommodation, great views over the River Ythan, and an excellent restaurant. Beyond the River Ythan lies one of the oddest landscapes in Britain. Forvie Sands comprises an area of dunes some three miles long and a mile wide. At its heart are the remains of Forvie Kirk, built in the 1100s. This is all that can now be seen of the village of Forvie, once a thriving community but buried by shifting dunes during a storm in 1413. www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/newburgh/newburgh/
Sands of Forvie Nature Reserve: www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/forvie-national... Shifting sands and seabirds The stark beauty of empty sand dunes is complemented by the call of eider ducks, wafting like gentle gossiping across the Ythan estuary. With the constant shifting of the dunes, layers of history have come and gone, revealing the half buried remains of a twelfth century church. Bird life is plentiful and you can watch the summer acrobatics of diving terns or the determined stabbing of the carrot-coloured beaks of wading oystercatchers.
An interesting attempt to convey the retro influences of Fossil with their interpretations, or sampling, one might say, from the past. I've always had mixed feelings about Fossil's choice of nostalgia as a branding strategy. Without question they caught the eye of designers early on as their work was showing up in all the annuals.
What it spawned was far too much half baked nostalgia influenced design by lesser practitioners who spent little time truly studying the styles from which they stole.