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An archive shot of a late afternoon view across the Firth of Forth to the hills of Edinburgh. Inchkeith Island is silhouetted centrally, and beyond them yopu can see EDinburgh's extinct volcano, Arthurs Seat and the long shape of SAlisbury Crags, an igneous sill which towers above Hollyrood Park.
Pittenweem, viewed from the Fife Coastal Path.
Lovely lighting illuminates the harbour wall and the clifftop houses at Pittenweem.
Around 1690 Sir William Anstruther of Anstruther bought the lands of Ardross, together with those of Elie, Bruntshiels, Muircambus and Carmurie. In the revolution of 1688, Sir William took the side of the Prince of Orange, and was rewarded by being appointed one of the ordinary lords of session (22 October 1689), and later a member of the privy council. In 1694, he was created a baronet of Nova Scotia. In 1704, he was nominated one of the lords of justiciary in the room of Lord Aberuchil. By a charter under the great seal dated 20 April 1704, and ratified by parliament 14 September 1705, the baronies of Anstruther and Ardross and the office of bailliary of the lordship of Pittenweem, with certain minor estates, rights, and privileges, and the office of carver and master of the household to her majesty and her heirs, were granted to Sir William Anstruther and his heirs for ever. Sir William Anstruther was strongly in favour of the union, and his name appears frequently in the division lists during the period when the question was agitating the Scotch parliament.
Sir William Anstruther built Elie House in 1687 and it is probably fair to assume that Ardross Castle was a ruin from that date onwards, although Ardross remained part of the Elie estate. In 1853 Sir Wyndham Anstruther sold the Elie estates, including Ardross, to William Baird, son of Alexander Baird of Lockwood.
Following Baird’s death in 1864, the Elie estates passed to his son, William Baird of Elie. In 1928 the estate was sold to Sir Michael Nairn, 2nd Bart., and it is now owned by the Elie Estate Trust, which is under the stewardship of Sir Michael’s grandson, Sir Michael Nairn, 4th Bart.
As seen here, the Fife Coastal Path passes through the ruins of Ardross Castle.
An archive shot from October 2010 with the sun rising to the west of Berwick Law (an extinct Carboniferous volcano near the town of North Berwick).
Aberdour Harbour it low tide. Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh can be glimpsed across the Firth of Forth.
August 2005
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
The abandoned pier at Carlingnose Point, North Queensferry. Another great part of the Fife Coastal Path.
That was a close one. The Dunhill starts in a day or so and I missed rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous as they valiantly endeavor to bury a wee white ball in the grass.
I very much doubt if I would be able to walk past the tee either - going coastal for me!
Stagecoach bus arrives at Culross Palace - the ochre coloured building in the background - in this historic Fife Coast Royal Burgh at the start of its local journey back to Dunfermline. The Palace was not a royal residence. The term seems to have been a corruption of Place and was built by a rich local merchant as his home. It is looked after by the National Trust for Scotland.
This picture, showing two HST services about to pass each other, was captured by chance from the Fife Coastal Path between Aberdour and Burntisland. On the left is 1A71 1132 hrs Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen with the leading power car in the ScotRail Inter7City livery and its unrefurbished coaches still in FGW “wavy lines” colours. Heading south in LNER colours is 1E15 0952 hrs Aberdeen to London King’s Cross, just a couple of weeks before Azumas take over from the HSTs on LNER services to/from Aberdeen.. This stretch of railway in the picture from Burntisland to Inverkeithing opened in 1890 in connection with the Forth Bridge.
Has rained all weekend so decided to try my hand at some macro work. Shot in the kitchen using light from the window and some tin foil as a reflector. Shells were then placed on a box filled with sand.
On the left is Ravenscraig Castle, built by King James II of Scotland in the 15th century as a modern castle built to withstand cannon-fire. The main part of the castle, (which is still standing) had walls thirteen feet (4 metres) thick. Oliver Cromwell’s invading Parliamentarian army laid siege to the castle, which was held for the royalist forces of Charles II. Cromwell’s gunners ignored the strong part and set about blasting apart the thinner walled part of the castle, which was on the crags. Fortunately for history, Cromwell had to leave, to deal with trouble elsewhere in Scotland, before his forces had time to level, or flatten the entire castle.
In the centre of the photo, the castle is dwarfed by the three tower blocks of the Ravenscraig flats, which were built as by Kirkcaldy Town Council to provide affordable council housing in the 1960s. Although the flats weren’t sympathetically located with respect to the castle, they have been well looked after, are largely privately owned now and have proved very popular residences with the people of Kirkcaldy, because of their nice views and facilities.
On the right, the little pointy-roofed tower (A great place to observe seals on the rocks offshore, or on the little beach-cove) is in Ravenscraig Park, a popular public park. The park was originally the Three Trees Park, owned by the St Clair, Earls of Rosslyn. One of the later earls went bankrupt due to his love of gambling and wandering eye for pretty ladies. After a costly divorce he had to sell Dysart House and his lands in Fife. Eventually, Dysart House became a Carmelite Nunnery and the parkland was donated by the Nairn Family to the people of Kirkcaldy.
A really dramatic sunrise in the company of Stuart and Scott. Hard to believe that this is the Fife coast between Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn. Was minus something when we arrived and the beach was covered in frost when we packed up. The tide was on its way out so we had to constantly move down the rocks. Just after the sun appeared it lit up the wet rock on the left with a burst of orange light. More on my blog
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Up early this morning to get a sunrise, even though no sun, nice colour. LE with a 10 stop and CPL. I darkenrd the sky a little and brightened up the rock in LR. Very calm and managed to get the drone up too, between this rock and harbour.
There was no dramatic sunrise over the Lothians today but I did witness this fiery cloud angel before the original morning promise subsided into greyness and rain. However, we did get out later on, on a cold, but sunny afternoon to visit the East Neuk of Fife.
Made Explore on 23rd November then vanished out of it again.
BEST VIEWED LARGE, OR ON BLACK. Not the best view of Inchcolm Island and Abbey from tjhe Daffodil Walk between Aberdour and Dalgety Bay, because both ends of the island are slightly obscured by trees and the three overlapping photos that I input had slightly different exposures. Yet for me, Microsoft's free ICE stitching program beautifully handled a less than perfect input to produce a good facsimile of this super view from the Fife Coastal Path. I really do recommend this inexpensive (it can't be any less expensive, because it is completely free) download program. It has made me eager to produce nice pano shots in future.