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This Castle ruin lies near the shores of Loch Fleet, Scottish Highlands.
Wonderful intense colours that morning.
Lockheed Martin KC-130J
VMGR-352 "Raiders"
Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron
16-6765
RAF Mildenhall, UK
9th September 2020
El-Al Israel Airlines 4X-EDF Boeing 787-9 which wears El Al Airlines retro livery is pictured on finals into London Heathrow (LHR) as LY315 from Tel Aviv
I spent my birthday shopping with the family in Oxford but I did manage to escape for a few photographs :)
Lockheed Martin KC-130J
VMGR-352 "Raiders"
Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron
16-6765
RAF Mildenhall, UK
9th September 2020
LMS 0-6-0 Class 4F No 43924 approaching Oakworth Station at The Mound from Damens Loop with a local passenger working to Oxenhope from Keighley on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on 21st September 2011
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
The skyline of the Old Town rises to the clouds, overlooking the National Galleries of Scotland. The spire belongs to The Hub church, home of the Festival, and the twin towers to the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland. The top of the Camera Obscura is to the extreme right
East Princes Street Gardens, looking south, showing Lloyds Banking Group Head Office and the Assembly Hall on The Mound.
A juggler in front of the Scottish National Gallery, on the corner of Market St and the Mound, for the Edinburgh Fringe, an event which brings performers, comedians, actors, musicians and so, so many tourists to the city every year.
Shot with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
SR 2-6-0 4MT Mogul Class U No 31806 passes The Mound on the Severn Valley Railway with a local passenger working from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster on 16th October 2012 - a 30742 Charter
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
LMS 5MT 2-6-0 Stanier Mogul No 42968 works its first charter freight in preservation between Damens Loop and Oakworth past The Mound on KWVR with a working from Keighley to Oxenhope on 7th September 2006
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
44871 passes 'The Mound' on the approach to Oakworth. Taken on a photo event organised by 30742 Charters.
Sunset on a spring evening by the Mound, which connects the New and Old Towns. The plaza by the Royal Scottish Academy (on the right) and in front of the National Gallery of Scotland (centre right) is in shadow already, but the buildings of the Old Town in the background, sitting higher up on the volcanic slopes, are catching that last half hour of light, making the old stonework glow.
Lockheed Martin KC-130J
VMGR-352 "Raiders"
Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron
16-6765
RAF Mildenhall, UK
9th September 2020
Myself and a celeb enjoying a rather dubious 'green burger' in the chuck (up) wagon after our gig last night.
We are " The Mound" I think ?
The Mound, tour merchandise proposal:
(NOT my derriere!)
Wishful thinking and a neon sign have come together in yet another tour merchandise idea, boyshort underwear ... another proposed addition to The Mound's band merchanding arsenal ... don't look at me, I'm just a singer in a rock-n-roll(?) band ... among other things ...
This idea is per co-dictator the spanglemaker's wish and member guapa's photo after their recent trip /s to London (see his wish and her photo of the original neon sign here: DSC02957)...
If this passes the approval process I'm sure it will warm up those cool Spring nights on The Mound tour bus.
Additionally, it is hoped that this hot number will heat up merchandising sales and help defray the maintenance and fuel costs of the tourbus ... maybe even replenish the rapidly diminishing supply of kahlua :D!
Taken at our NissanAssemblyPlant gig on Friday night, this photo of Summer Nipples' lower half proves that many of the early bugs have been ironed out of The Mound's lightshow. However, I am concerned that Veejay Sing's lightshow programming still has those x-ray blasts turned up way too high. Just above SN's right knee, I can clearly see the raised fist of that bloke who stormed the stage during "Port Vale Ultras v Cowes Yatching Club". Btw kudos to Summer Nipples for toe-ending him right in the goolies!
Collected the boxes of cd's this morning as soon as the Scratchworks' office opened. This is it! All ready to be on sale at our forthcoming gigs.
In Europe and any dollar zone, I would suggest a price of £10 / 10Euros / $15 to keep it simple. Given the nature of the Dubai venue, I would suggest one Gold Bar. A barter system would perhaps be appropriate in Nairobi? H-B H-B indicates R1500 for Cape Town.
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The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture (RSA) is an independently funded organisation which supports the creation, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts in Scotland. Based within the Royal Scottish Academy building, the RSA runs a year-round programme of exhibitions, artist opportunities and related educational talks and events which support artists at all stages of their careers. The RSA also holds an extensive collection and archive.
Led by eminent artists and architects, the RSA embodies a wealth of professional experience in Fine Art and Architecture, with many RSA members taking a leading role in higher education and many of the leading cultural institutions in Scotland.
The ‘Scottish Academy’ was founded in 1826 by a group of eleven artists. It was created with the aim of creating an academy of fine arts instructing students at no charge, to present an annual exhibition open to all artists of merit and maintain a library devoted to the fine arts.
The Academy held its first exhibition in 1827 and in 1835 had been granted permission to lease space within the Royal Institution building on the Mound for its annual exhibition. By 1838, the Academy had gained a Royal Charter (and was now known as the Royal Scottish Academy) and it continued to grow in significance and status throughout the nineteenth century, training young artists and looking after its collection for the benefit of students and the wider public.
The founders of the RSA also held a strong desire that Scotland should have a National Gallery of its own and as they continued to expand and place demands on the space within the Royal Institution, it was clear that they required new premises. Therefore, when a new purpose built gallery was designed and constructed in the 1850’s, the Royal Scottish Academy moved in alongside the newly created National Gallery of Scotland (today part of the Scottish National Gallery), hosting its exhibitions within the gallery, as well as having its council room, library and life school within the building. It continued to teach Fine Art in the gallery until the Edinburgh College of Art was formed in 1907.
In 1910, it was decided that the RSA should be transferred back into the Royal Institution Building and be awarded permanent tenancy of office space and the right to hold its annual exhibition within the building. The building then became known as ‘The Royal Scottish Academy’. In return, the RSA gifted ninety-six paintings and sculptures and approximately two-thousand drawings to the National Gallery of Scotland, and are still part of the national collection.
The latest phase in the history of the RSA saw the construction of an underground link between the Royal Scottish Academy Building and the National Gallery of Scotland (as it was then known). Award-winning architects John Miller and Partners rose to the challenge of redeveloping the buildings for modern use.
The Royal Scottish Academy building reopened in 2004 and is now a world-class exhibition space, while the underground Gardens Level houses a range of visitor facilities and education spaces. The Royal Scottish Academy Building now plays host to a variety of exhibitions programmed by the National Galleries of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, and others.
[Information: National Galleries of Scotland Website]
Taken at The Mound, Oxford Castle - evening shoot in the dark - the light trail is a plane that was passing overhead during the 30 second exposure.
As is the Assembly on the Mound. Hand held Edinburgh at Christmas 2024.
An image inside an image. Once you have taken the shot, then go to edit or look at what you have captured at home and spot a possible great image you wished you had noticed at the time. Spot the couple under the street light in the distance. Imagine that with a longer lens?
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With the Scottish National Gallery looming large on The Mound, a class 27 BRC&W unit, still carrying its pre-TOPS number of 5394, approaches one of the bay platforms at Edinburgh Waverley, presumably with a push-pull train from Glasgow Queen Street.
The unit would shortly receive its TOPS number of 27106, denoting it was both vacuum and air-braked, and thus suitable for top and tailing the air-braked Mk 2 carriage stock that had been modified for use on these push-pull services.
Happily this locomotive has been preserved on the Strathspey Railway at Aviemore, once again as D5394 but now in its 1960s livery of green with white stripes. The fast acceleration, high speed and tight scheduling of the Glasgow push-pulls were notorious for thrashing these engines, so presumably it's now having the sort of life that befits its 57 years of age!
To allow for monochrome as well as colour transparency photography, I acquired a Praktica L in early 1974 to supplement the Zenit E - both came with the Pentax 42mm lens thread which made interchanging lenses possible. The reason I mention this is because I was surprised at how sharp the image is above, which will readily stand up to full screen enlargement - a nice testament to the Praktica lens I think. The camera incidentally was purchased from a small back-street shop in Leicester that was selling cameras incredibly cheaply. Advertising in one of the camera magazines of the day I made a special visit to check it out - its name, Jessops.
Boots Panchromatic B&W film, commercially developed.
9th March 1974
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