Its that time on the year it’s perfect to experiment with long exposure photos. FIrst shot as always – the Scott Monument with the Sky Flyer.
Edinburgh Christmas 2017 – The Scott Monument and the Sky Flyer
Alas, my camera maximum is 15 seconds.. (time to upgrade 
) I’ll upload more to my sites and social media over the next wee while. – constructive comments always welcome.
A wee quick photo from the Annual Fireworks concert, this was taken from Arthur’s Seat. A wee album will follow.
Edinburgh fireworks concert Arthur’s seat
The Edinburgh festivals have only but a few days left, hopefully you managed to get out and enjoy it.
amongst the plethora of street performers this guy plied his trade between the Old Town Venues. A bloke called Tony Roberts from Australia, who emulated the sensational escape acts of Harry Houdini.
Edinburgh Festival – Street Performer
Only Edinburgh during August is it perfectly normal to find people Eating fire, juggling machetes on a uni cycle, or perhaps sandwiched between beds of nails and or course wrapped in chains between a tennis racquet.
More Photos will follow later.. maybe.. 😉
This is a quirky wee thing, in Edinburgh for the Festival Brick City @ Riddle’s Court (found at the back of Riddle’s Close) (venue 277)
it’s for kids, but the Close has been decorated in Lego info here Looks great!
Riddle’ s Close With Lego
Riddle’s Court With Lego
Riddle’ s Close With Lego
The floral clock for 2017 is complete, this year it commemorates the Scotsman newspaper bicentenary. It’s an actual working clock, with a new design each summer. see the bird house, every hour a wee cuckoo pops out and does her calling. – it’s awfy nice 😊 (you can find this in West Princes Street Gardens next to The Mound entrance)
2017 Floral Clock
2017 Floral Clock
Link from the auld bbc – Seven shortlisted designs for the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street gardens. We all know this wee place needs some TLC, some of the designs are just a tad horrendous. But I do like the Flanagan Lawrence design
It is hoped a new pavilion to replace Edinburgh’s Ross bandstand will revitalise West Princes Street Gardens.
Source: Edinburgh’s Ross Bandstand architects shortlisted – BBC News
But here is a better page with the entries
https://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/rosspavilion/shortlist
Well it’s that time of the year already… its flown past
so with the Christmas attractions out already, its time to experiment with some log exposure night shots… here is the Star Flyer. Bit of a scunner, I cut the top of the Scott Monument off 🙁
Edinburgh Christmas 2016
Here is a small album from last Mondays fireworks concert, 30 photos
taken from Castle street, Thankfully I arrived an hour before it all began, thus getting a pretty good vantage point. This was my first attempt at shooting fireworks.
And that’s it for 2016 – Haste ye back 2017
The culmination of the festival is a spectacular pyrotechnic fireworks concert…. the sky lights up in time to music from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from, this all takes place from the castle, it can be heard and seen from many places across the city
Edinburgh Festival 2016 – Fireworks
I have never attempted firework photos before, I did take many, oh so many!! 😉 I’ll upload a wee album soon as I can
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is over for 2016!
During the month of August you will find a plethora of street performers around the city centre plying their trade. Juggling fire seems to be one of the more popular acts, (I always think that juggling fire in Scotland is rather optimistic, as it does rains a lot) but some are more daring juggling dangerous weapons including chainsaws and machetes. Unfortunately I only had the ooomph to get out and take photos towards the end. Below is a small gallery of the performers that graced the streets of Edinburgh in August 2016.
Interestingly something else happened! The middle of the festival a Saturday afternoon I managed to walk the length of the High Street without being offered a single flyer, even after making eye contact. Many will call me a liar, but it did indeed happen…. perhaps they just though there goes the grumpiest man in Edinburgh? 😉