Farty's Fortunes

Wednesday 26 May 2010

My Red Dress

I've been up to Hillend a few times to practice skiing, but I'd always planned to just walk up with the camera one day and take some nice photos of my home town. Then life happened and what with one thing and another, that day never came.

Yesterday, however, I found myself on holiday, with no fixed plans, beautiful weather, a new camera and a free morning. So I thought, "Bugger it, I'm off!"

Hopping on the bus, I started up Twitter on my phone and the very first tweet I saw was one from Chookooloonks about how to improve your photography. That led me to her blog, where I was momentarily sidetracked by a stunning photoset of Jenny The Bloggess wearing a red dress in a cemetery. Yeah.

Jenny's own post on the same subject would have prompted me to take this trip if I wasn't already there. Spooky coincidence, innit?

As always, click on any photo to embiggen and feel free to copy for non-commercial purposes.

Bluebells. Aren't they lovely? No, of course I didn't have to stop anyway to catch my breath.
Bluebells

Oh, looky! Someone's got a hang-glider!
Hang-glider

The First Forth Bridge. To Fife.
Bridge

A boat. And Fife. Again.
Boat

Arthur's Seat. And Fife. Sigh.
Arthur's_Seat

Top of the ski-tow. Practising skyline photos without ending up underexposed. Win.
Ski-tow

North Berwick Law. Cockenzie power station in the foreground. No sign of Fife.
The_Law

Edinburgh Castle. Pay no attention to the background.
Castle

Action shot of a skier going down.
Skier

Action shot of a hang-glider going up. Cheeky monkey.
Going_up

Panorama of Edinburgh. This was stitched together in the camera from 3 separate photos. Isn't technology wonderful?
Panorama

About this site. Robert Louis Stevenson was here.
Sign

That hang-glider again.
Hang-glider_2nd_flight

Gorse Bush. There's a lot of these around here. Hope that pilot can steer well. #spiky
Gorse

And if you're still wondering about the title of this post, you haven't visited Jenny's blog. Go on!