You don't take a photograph, you make it. (Ansel Adams)

Edinburgh Day by Day

Waverley Bridge

waverley bridgeA view of Waverley Bridge from Princes Street constructed from two old photographs, a view that looks very different today. Note the greenhouse in the bottom left, apparently there was once a nusery there.


Early Morning – Figgate Park

Images from an early morning walk in Figgate Park

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Newhaven Harbour

A few images shot around Newhaven Harbour.

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Junction Mills

Been doing a little Historical sleuthing this morning.

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This object has puzzled me ever since I came to live here in Leith, six or seven years ago now. It is very obviously a sluice gate, but what is not so obvious is its purpose, and it must have, at some point in time, had a purpose. The puzzling thing is that this is the only remaining piece of evidence of what must have been here in the past, there is absolutely nothing remaining that could give a possible clue as to why this sluice gate (marked with the X on the map below better viewed larger) is where it is.

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A little digging around here brought to light the fact that there was once a flour mill on this bend of the Water of Leith. So, I can only assume that it had a water wheel which was lower than the actual mill  itself, and the that the power generated was somehow transmitted up into the mill itself.

Junction Mill is a flour mill and also an oatmeal mill. It belongs to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, who took it over from Messrs. John Inglis and Son in 1897. The capacity of the flour mill is about fifteen sacks per hour, and in 1920 its production Was 123,808 sacks. In the same year the oatmeal mill produced 28,504 sacks of oatmeal, all the oats used in the mill being Scottish. Swanfield Mill in Bonnington Road is a flour mill, while Messrs. Inglis have a large oatmeal mill at Bonnington. These mills, like the others already mentioned, possess the latest types of miffing machinery.

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I also discovered an artist’s impression from the turn of the century, early 1900′s:-

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Architecture on Great Junction Street

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Signs of Spring

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Early Morning in the Sun

A few shots from a sunny early morning stroll:-

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Edinburgh – Evening Light

I can’t take credit for this series of images, Bondwoman shot these yesterday and I have nicked them for the blog. These could have all been potential images for her daily blip.

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Calton Hill to the Castle – Early Morning Skyline

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Calton Hill to the Castle – Skyline

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Wet Reflections

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Reflection on The Shore

I have turned the camera upside down once again, just to please my friend Adullamite

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The Shadows Project 3

More shadows shot, as part of my Shadows Project, in and around Leith; this time in glorious technicolor:-

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Reflections on The Water of Leith 2

Some reflections on a walk along the Water of Leith

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Sunrise this Morning

sunrise0602012I just couldn’t resist the colours and textures in those clouds.


The Shadows Project 2

More images from the Shadows Project, which is coming along nicely. More of this project’s images can be seen here.

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Waverley Steps

Having been closed as part of the station refurbishment, the Waverley Steps have now been reopened and look absolutely fantastic.

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Reflections on The Water of Leith

A few reflections on a stroll along the Water of Leith.

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The Road Not Taken

the road not takenThis image sort of reminded me of my favourite Robert Frost poem:-

 

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


A Short Walk on the Water of Leith

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Trailing the Light

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Playing with Light – Again!

I find shadows and reflections fascinating things, these images were all shot within a few hundred yards of home this morning – good to have such subject matter on the doorstep.

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Playing with Light 2

Any regular visitor will know that I really have a thing about light and reflections, well this also extends to shadows as well.

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Abandoned Buggy

buggyWhat more can one say?


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