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The Scottish Parliament Building is situated next to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh and is one of those modern structures that divides opinions.  Personally I like it, it is very striking and makes a bold statement about Scotland as a nation. I had a couple of hours to kill on a trip to Edinburgh earlier this year so I went for a walk around Holyrood armed only with my Fujifilm X100 - the original X-Series camera.  Once again the weather was very changeable and I found myself dodgy rain showers, but when the clouds cleared the light on the building was wonderful. This shot was taken at the back of the Parliament as the sunlight hit the strangely shaped windows.  I decided to tilt the camera up and on an angle because the abstract shape of the building suited this type of composition.  The image was converted to monochrome in post production with NIK Silver Efex Pro2 software. This image made it into my 2015 Top 10 because of the subject but also to prove that...

Yesterday I posted an image of Edinburgh Castle taken from Salisbury Crag in Holyrood Park.  I took several other images of the city and surrounding area from the view point and here is a selection - The image above is looking north towards Calton Hill and the Nelson Monument which stands above the Firth of Forth. This shot is a wide angle of the scene looking north towards Fife on the far bank of the Firth of Forth.  In the foreground is the Scottish Parliament building and to the left is Holyrood Palace. Holyrood Park attracts a lot of visitors who take in the spectacular views of Edinburgh. This couple wandered into my shot but they do provide a nice counterpoint to the view beyond.  In the far distance you can see the top of the Forth Road Bridge above the hill and beyond that the mountains become visible. The two images below show more detail of the City of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Castle, with the Union Flag flying proudly above.  What flag ...

The Royal Mile is the name given to a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The name was first used in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920. The thoroughfare, as the name suggests, is approximately one mile long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle (See yesterday's blog ) and Holyrood Palace. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town. There is an excellent website that gives details of all the places that can seen on The Royal Mile HERE Statue of David Hume and St Giles Cathedral Deacon Brodies Tavern and St Giles Cathedral T...