CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

I do a lot of flying with my job.  This year I have taken in excess of 80 flights to destinations in Asia, North America, the Middle East and Europe and I never get tired of looking out the window at 38000 feet.  You get some great views and it's something I never want to take for granted. Last Tuesday I flew back into Edinburgh from Qatar and the skies over the Firth of Forth were clear, giving some great views over East Lothian towards Edinburgh. I usually take pictures on one of my Fujifilm X-T1s or the X100 but on this occassion the cameras were in the locker above my head and I decided to use the camera on the iPad Mini that I am typing this blog post on.    The first shot shows Prestonpans, with the remains of the Cockenzie power station at the bottom of the picture.  The second picture is on the approach to the airport and is of Leith Harbour with the bright sunshine bouncing off the water. I have just two more trips to Munich...

Before I traveled to China we decided to explore the East Lothian coast nearer to Edinburgh. Our first stop off point was the beach near the Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum near Prestonpans.   The wind was pretty strong and this meant the sea was a little on the rough side.  The legacy of the old industrial site were everywhere to see and artifacts from the old harbour, which is now filled in, can be seen everywhere, like this concrete block. Prestongrange is a free museum - managed by East Lothian Council Museums - and an open-air site of major importance in the story of Scotland's Industrial Revolution. It was the location of a sixteenth-century harbour, a seventeenth-century glass works, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century potteries and a nineteenth/twentieth-century coal mine and brick works. CLICK HERE to visit the Preston Grange Museum website image taken on a Fujifilm X100 and 23mm f2 lens - 1/350 @ f8 - ISO200 -----------------...