Patrick Hadfield
@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Walking back from a gig tonight, I noticed lots of people in Castle Street taking pictures. So I turned around to see what they were photographing.

And this is what I saw.

#Edinburgh #castle #moon #photography #clouds

A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
Mark H
@neonbubble@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Something from this day in 2019 when we'd docked in Genoa then taken a boat ride along the Ligurian coast to a few towns and villages along the way. The final one had been Portofino and that's it you can see on and beyond the cliff edges here. The church is Chiesa di San Giorgio and the castle is Castello Brown.

#Travel #Photography #Italy#Liguria #Portofino#Church#Castle #Landscape#Cruise

A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
Rick Gaehl
@RickGaehl@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

This is Camber Castle, in East Sussex. It stands mid-way between the Cinque Ports of Rye and Winchelsea, and was completed in 1543. It was once on a promontary by the sea and guarded the entrances to the two harbours. It was intended to offer protection from French invasion. However, in the event, it wasn't the French who invaded but the sand and silt. The harbours are long gone and the castle now sits some considerable way from the sea.

#Photography #History#Castle
Autor Martin Schemm
@martinschemm@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Guten Morgen allerseits! 😀 👋

Zum #DoorsDay heute das Tor des Schlosses im oberfränkischen Thurnau. In der Anlage, die im 13. Jahrhundert und auch später erbaut wurde, lebten im Laufe der Zeit mehrere regionale, fränkische Adelsgeschlechter.

#bayern #oberfranken #doors#tür #doorphotography #geschichte #history #mittelalter #medieval #burg #castle #architektur #architecture #fotografie #photography#Photographie #foto #architecturephotography #travel #travelphotography
Patrick Hadfield
@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Walking back from a gig tonight, I noticed lots of people in Castle Street taking pictures. So I turned around to see what they were photographing.

And this is what I saw.

#Edinburgh #castle #moon #photography #clouds

A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
A colour photograph of the moon coming out from behind thick cloud, behind Edinburgh Castle. The castle, in the centre of the picture, is illuminated and appears bathed in orange-red light. The moon is just above the castle, and is the brightest thing in the picture. The moon is a white disc, with no detail visible. It is the clouds which make the picture. There are two dark circles of cloud, one on each side of the moon, which is lighting up their edges so they look like eyes or spectacles. The rest of the sky is very dark, and the cliffs of Castle Hill are also dark. In the bottom right corner the top of a tree can be seen, lit up by a street lamp. The leaves are bright green.
Mark H
@neonbubble@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Something from this day in 2019 when we'd docked in Genoa then taken a boat ride along the Ligurian coast to a few towns and villages along the way. The final one had been Portofino and that's it you can see on and beyond the cliff edges here. The church is Chiesa di San Giorgio and the castle is Castello Brown.

#Travel #Photography #Italy#Liguria #Portofino#Church#Castle #Landscape#Cruise

A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.
A view from the sea looking back across a few hundred metres of largely flat but deep blue and slightly choppy water to land. Sheer but craggy cliffs of no less than twenty metres in height and no more than double that on the far right of the view line the picture from left to right. The rock is warm-toned with deep shadows in some of its clefts and ridges. Shrubbery and trees line the top of the cliff edge on the left side and climb upwards on the right following the rocky contours but there is a gap just left of middle through which we can see orange and yellow-coloured buildings of some age and several storeys in height as well as a church with tower, all painted in yellow and white. Above the tower height on the cliffs to the right there is a castle poking over the tops of the dense tree coverage there, while rising up the ridge to its right more trees grow including some solitary cypress trees that give away this Mediterranean location. The sky is bright but filled with huge, high, pillow-like clouds that only show a few patches of pale blue in the gaps.