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When out and about with my camera I love looking for those little details to point my lens at.   Yesterday while in Edinburgh I spotted these old mechanical door bell pullers on a street just off the Royal Mile. I don't know if they were still operational but I suspect they were.   The bright red of the door and the blue of the wall contrasts nicely with the battered grey and black of the door bells. The image was shot with a Fujifilm X-Pro2 and a XF56mm f1.2 lens. I shot the image at f1.2 to give an extremely shallow depth of field and the resulting shutter speed was 1/1000s at 200 ISO. The image was shot in RAW and then run through the Nik Analog Efex software to complete the final image with an old classic feel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support...

David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist and has been regarded  as the greatest philosopher who has ever written in the English language. In 1995 a 9 foot bronze statue was completed by sculptor Sandy Stoddart and is situated in front of the High Court Building on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The prominent big toe of the huge statue has become a touchstone for philosophy students, children and tourists hoping some of Hume's wisdom will rub off on them. In 2006 The Scotsman newspaper ran a story on this new tradition HERE and interviews Sandy Stoddart about this.  He said:  "The great thing is that it's so ironic that David Hume, who is the patron saint of all the atheists, should now have his toe adored."  While in Edinburgh yesterday we stopped to admire the statue and take a couple of shots of the toe on the Fujifilm X-T1 and 56mm f1.2 lens.   Did I join in the tradition?  Of course I ...

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...