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A City View of Edinburgh

Airship Orange

Airship Orange flying over the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh

Video and Soundtrack produced by Andrew Murphy

Working with the available daylight in a photograph is all important, because the light outside can change so fast when you have to work with it.

The light at each time of the year is very different, and you may see something such as a view once, yet never see the same view with that light again.

Sometimes you might have to wait for a long time to get the photograph with the daylight that you are looking for when photographing a view.

The Scots Dream  [The Old Royal High School]

The Scots dream was for their new Scottish Parliament to be built in the Old Royal High School on Regent Road - pictured above.  The new Scottish Parliament has been built beside Holyrood Palace at the bottom of the Royal Mile, and has now started work as a working Parliament.

The Forth Rail Bridge

It has often been said that Edinburgh is the Athens of the North.  Yet, I fail to see any comparison between the two.

Edinburgh history goes back over a thousand years.  But if you want to go back even further, the Romans were here long before that period in time.

Edinburgh is a city that you can live in all your life, and still never know the full history of the city.  If you want to start anywhere, I would suggest that you start with the old town, then move on to the new town providing that you have the time.

Skies of fire over Edinburgh

The city of Edinburgh has many parks, hills and places to walk.  The old railway lines that were removed have now been transformed into walkways so that you walk for miles without leaving the old rail tracks.  Some of these walkways can link you up with the walkways along the water of Leith, which in the right weather can be delightful and well worth spending a day exploring.

The Water of Leith

The First Day of the New Year

Lost and Found at the Mound in Edinburgh

The shape of Leith Docks happened a number of years ago when grain stores, fertiliser companies, ship builders and many other businesses moved out leaving the buildings in the docks redundant.  Leith Docks is going through a rebuilding program and it has been rejuvenated with the building of a multi complex cinema and a top class shopping centre.  New houses have sprung up to fill in some of the spaces that were left when Leith Docks changed from its industrial past to its new future.  I wait to see what its future looks like, but something tells me it wont be as bright as its colourful industrial past.

Railway Lines to Nowhere in Leith Docks

Working no More in Leith Docks

The Leith Fleet

At a Dead End

Leith Docks in Decline

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