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We are prone to think that we have to move away to get things in perspective and it is true: this allows us to have an overall outlook. But there is another way to understand life and it consist in staying close to what is happening to us. Read more on my blog: myhealingmoments.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/day-525.html
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Closing 2011... :))
From my window in Lisbon.
Hazleton, PA. March 2018.
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Despite looking like a smudgy lens, the sky is actually a mottled mess of patchy thin high-level cloud.
THE TALE
It’s a cold morning in Edinburgh, as Sir George Lockhart (the city’s President of the Court of Session) walks up his narrow close, out onto the Royal Mile and down to St Giles’ High Kirk. It is March 31, 1689 – Easter Sunday. On his walk home after the service, a strange man Sir George recognises but can’t quite place tips his hat and salutes him. Lockhart has the distinct feeling he is being followed. He looks back – nothing. He opens the gate to his close and locks it securely behind him. The gate creaks open and he turns to look, but sees only shadows.
He keeps walking and hears footsteps. As Lockhart increases his pace, the footsteps quicken too, gaining fast. He reaches the front door, fumbles inside his pocket, finds the key and puts it into the lock. The key turns and clicks, followed by an enormous bang. “I have killed the judge! I have taught him justice!” The judge dies moments later on his own bed. Out on the street, the murderer doesn’t even try to run. He shows his pistol to those who want to look and boasts his crime to those who want to listen: ‘I have killed the judge! I have taught him justice!’ The murderer’s name is John Chiesly – a landowner in Dalry, a hamlet near Edinburgh.
A few months before the crime took place, Lockhart had resolved a divorce request from Chiesly in his wife’s favour. “Chiesly’s body mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again” Chiesly was sentenced to pay the equivalent of £93 a year (an enormous amount of money at the time) for the upkeep of his wife and their 11 children. After the ruling, Chiesly vowed to kill the judge unless the sentence was rectified. It wasn’t, and Chiesly kept his word. Now the man faced an angry jury, who sentenced him to be tortured in prison and executed in public at Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross. The torture included the use of thumbscrews to crush his fingers, and booties to break his legs.
The arm with which the crime had been committed was severed while the man was still alive and displayed before him as he was hanged. Once dead, his body was to be taken to the city gallows, where it would be displayed until rotten. Just three days later, though, Chiesly’s body mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. From then on, legend has it that the ghost of John Chiesly (missing one arm and dragging his broken limbs) chased those who dared venture into one of Edinburgh’s closes at night for the next hundred years. The reports of sightings only stopped when his skeleton was found behind a hearthstone in a house in Dalry.
This cheetah shot is just the way I shot it and is NOT a crop.
Shot at about 300-350mm. Yes we were close.
Hand held. 20D W/ 100-400mm lens.
West Seneca, NY. June 2018.
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