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iPod Shuffle - Charlotte Street
Made by Hotpix UK Tony Smith {Away-back soon}
Charlotte Street - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Play this track here. ¿Whats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here This is certainly a shop I would expect to find on 'Charlotte Street'. Rattlesnakes was the debut album released in 1984 by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. The band formed in Glasgow and were a great success in the second half of the 1980's. The band were formed whilst Cole (who was born in Derbyshire, England) was studying at the University of Glasgow. After signing to Polydor Records, the band had a Top 40 UK hit with their debut single Perfect Skin in Spring 1984. The follow-up album, Easy Pieces, was produced by Clive Langer (ex Deaf School guitarist) & Alan Winstanley (who had previously produced Madness, The Teardrop Explodes and Elvis Costello and the Attractions). Released in November 1985, the album was a much quicker commercial success than its predecessor (entering the UK album chart at no 5 and certified Gold within a month). The singles Brand New Friend and Lost Weekend were the band's first and only UK Top 20 hits (charting 19 and 17 respectively). To track down some more Lloyd Cole, checkout Live at the BBC, volumes 1 and 2 (2007), which contains BBC broadcasts of live shows between 1984 and 1986. Some trivia about Charlotte St, nothing to do with Lloyd Cole. Theresa Berkley was an early 19th century dominatrix who ran a brothel in at 28 Charlotte Street in London (now 84-94 Hallam Street), specialising in flagellation. Well I never! Tell her I sent you! ------------------------ Checkout more from my photostream. Keep in touch, add me as a contact www.flickr.com/relationship.gne?id=33062170@N08 so I can follow all your new uploads. (c) TonySmith Hotpix / HotpixUK ( )
To become a child ...
Made by Lynn Morag
Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star as bright Aldeboran or Sirius, nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War; stars turn in purple, glorious to the sight; yours is not gracious as the Pleiads are nor as Orion's sapphires, luminous; yet disenchanted, cold, imperious face, when all the others blighted, reel and fall, your star, steel-set, keeps lone and frigid tryst to freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast. ~ Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961~ My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the spirit? Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent? To create new values--that, even the lion cannot yet accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new creating--that can the might of the lion do. To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto duty: for that, my brethren, there is need of the lion. To assume the right to new values--that is the most formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit. Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey. At its holiest, it once loved Thou-shalt: now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture. But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child? Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self- rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea. Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world's outcast. Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.-- ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 ~ Thus Spake Zarathustra The Three Metamorphoses
145 and the Girls
Made by Stuart Montgomery's Lothian Buses
The Best Deal in town? So which of these girls would you buy a £3.00 day ticket for? Note here that Volvo Eclipse number 145 doesn't have a yellow strip indicating Lothian's best deal in the land. But let's not worry about that as this is a moment when we're allowed to forget that we're bus enthusiasts and concentrate on much more important matters. That clock up there is 58metres in height and this is Walter Scott's Monument.....eh STOP! Yeah yeah yeah Mr;. Monty but nobody's interested in reading all that stuff for heavens sake man....not on this occasion! Let's start again. My mouth was drooling as I tried to keep up with the girls and just hoped I'd eventually get a legitimate reason for taking this photo! And then along comes a little Eclipse on the 29 and all I have to do is pray that the lights don't stop him.....oh yes and that nobody walks infront of the camera. This is a Rugby Saturday and it's busy - I've got to concentrate. Keeping up with the girls so that nobody can get between them and the lens...steady as she goes.....now can I line the bus up perfectly with them and get the fleet number in too, keeping en eye on the third one from the left especially...is it going to work....click and bingo. My totty for the day and it doesn't get fruitier than this. Behold therefore Lothian's Best (Totty) Deal in town! A few moments later I showed the photo to two rugby supporters on their way to Murrayfield....one of which said if I give you my e-mail address could you send that onto me back home? I nearly asked why they were bothering with the rugby at all - far better to stay right here for a much more exciting show!
Our House
Made by kenny mccartney
Our House [In The Middle of Our Street] - just a blast from the past to accentuate my point. :) This is Thistle Street in the heart of New Town of Edinburgh - right in the city centre. Somewhere in this frame is our residence: I'm quite fond of this little street, it's central to everything but still feels set apart. It was fun to learn just recently that this area was ranked 5th of all the UNESCO world heritage sites, just behind Rome and Istanbul but ahead of the likes of London, Barcelona, and Venice. It's a great city, but such a high ranking is still surprising. This is a stitch of 12 frames (!), all rotated around the axis of the TSE 24L II. In other words, the body/sensor remained in a fixed position on a tripod while the lens rotated like robotic magic, shifting the full 12 degrees in each direction. I would later take these individual frames to make a much larger image with which to work - resulting in an extraordinarily wide frame. Even after cropping and hacking to my liking, the final Original sized image is a quite large 7794 x 5316 pixels. Try to see how many signs you can clearly read! 5D II + TSE 24L II
Hannah Steedman Somerville (1874)
Made by musicmuse_ca
This is my great-grandmother Hannah Alexander Steedman when she was 17 years old and about to be married to my great-grandfather George (he was 21 years old) in 1874. On the marriage certificate which I obtained from the Scottish census (they have an amazing on-line database, where I was able to get a reprint), they listed her occupation as domestic servant and spinster (!!!!!). They were married on 10/26/1874 in Edinburgh. My great-grandfather George was listed as a bachelor. Both of their fathers were listed as ploughmen, but Hannah's father was already dead by this time. So she must have been very poor and known a hard life already. Perhaps this is why she looks so severe. She outlived her husband George by many years. He was died during WWI (he was born on 5/10/1853 and died 3/27/1915 at the age of 62). Hannah died in Edinburgh on 4/26/30 after a month-long bout of bronchitis. She was 73 years old. This shot seems to have once been hand-painted. There are splotches of blue color on the dress still. Most of the color has worn away over the years. The picture was taken by Alexander Nicol, a professional photographer in Edinburgh from 1865 to 1898.
View of Fife, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, 1974
Made by georgeupstairs
The bus I used to get to school. Edinburgh Leyland Titan PD2 507 (LWS507) approaches George Street after the long haul up from Canonmills, on service 23, in 1974. This was only a few weeks before these buses were displaced by AN68s on this service. The bus has some time in its 18 year career suffered front dome damage sufficient to lead to it having its glazing replaced with fixed units instead of the factory-fitted hopper vented examples. It shares the road with an Austin Maxi, a Land Rover and a Commer van, as well as exotic fare in the shape of an American sedan more often seen on the hills of San Fransisco than of Edinburgh. If you view large, you will see in the distance straight ahead the smooth green patch which is George Heriot's School's Goldenacre playing fields. To the left of these is a clump of trees, then a road and the more trees - these last being in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Beyond all the buildings is the Firth of Forth and then the hills of Fife. I looked at this same view on Google Streetview and was struck by how much busier the scene is there than on this 35 year old slide.
Princes Street at Christmas - Explored
Made by Grant_R
Went for a wee wander down Princes Street tonight, me and everybody else in Edinburgh with a camera on a tripod it seemed but none were as stupid to stand in the middle of the road taking pics! This is the big wheel that could be seen from the Calton shots looking down the street. It arrives every Christmas and goes away again in the New Year. This all started with the Winter Carnival in Waterloo place (just past the clock tower) a few years back. It was there for 3 days or so and moved on, now it's a skating rink, ferris wheel and other various bits a pieces designed to fleece the money off unsuspecting city centre visitors whch all take up residence in the east part of Princes Street Gardens. With the street open to traffic again for December before the tram works move in again it's a golden opportunity to get the famous street with no unsightly roadworks and with the traffic moving. We bit hacked off at the lens flaring going on in the shots tonight, might be a dirty lens or just not a competent enough photographer! Explored December 2nd 2009 #215
The Sideshow
Made by kenny mccartney
It's SO cold. I had to attempt this shot twice today; literally retreating home to thaw out. Once I had warmed up again it was time to give it another go. Turns out I ended up liking this one better anyhow. The sideshow on Princes Street is huge. What you see here is only a small slice; out of the frame are German markets, more rides, and even an outdoor ice skating rink. Definitely cool to see this installed among the backdrop of this already very photogenic city. The city is getting swollen with visitors again. People flock here to do their Christmas shopping, see the lights, and experience all the festivities of the season. Thus, this less-photographed angle: I'll save my venture to Princes Street for a weekday when the city is less crowded. Purposefully waited for the rare moments without traffic streaks - I felt like this image was already busy enough. This image is a stack of two 20-second exposures, shifted at +12 and ~6. Much of the bottom frame has been discarded, in favor of achieving a square crop. 5D II + TSE 24L II
Hot to trot
Made by georgeupstairs
Their bus swept out and ready to depart, the crew of Scottish Omnibuses AA46 pass a little time in conversation prior to leaving for the Borders. Scotttish Omnibuses had a byzantine series of codes to describe their vehicles. First the prefix X meant an express coach, Y was a coach and Z a DP vehicle. Ordinary buses didn't get one of these codes. Next up was a chassis codes. Now in my day they had mostly AECs, Bedfords, Bristols, and Leylands. So A was for...Bristol. AEC were B and naturally Bedfords were C. So of course, Leylands were H. But when the Seddons arrived they were S. Double deckers got the code doubled, so a Lodekka was AA.. Then there was the fleetnumber itself, and finally a garage identification code. Most of these I have forgotten but A was New Street, Edinburgh, and I think K, as here, was Peebles. All of this is dredged from long disused cupboards located in remore corridors in my memory, so if I have misremembered any of it, please let me know!
Sister Smiley
Made by A guy called John
One more from Edinburgh. There we were, having sampled a few pre-match pints to help build up the atmosphere, and keep us warm on the way to the stadium. As we walked to the ground, we were approached by the lady above, apparently a Hindu nun, looking for some contributions in order to help her save more souls (I'm not sure if that was her exact mission, but something along the lines of the Hindu equivalent of soul-saving). My philosophy is never to argue with a woman carrying CDs entitled The Three Gates Leading to Hell. Having parted with a pound sterling, I asked her if I could take a photograph. I think she was surprised, but then gave a big 'go ahead' smile. That's the first time I've ever asked a stranger if I could take their picture! (I just noticed that my photostream has a lot more 'people' in it recently - not a concious decision either way!). For the record, the 'three gates leading to hell' are lust, anger, and greed. I'm doomed!!
Edinburgh Old Town from East Princes Street Gardens
Made by Tales of One City
The 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival launched with the UK premiere of Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, adapted from an unproduced Jacques Tati script. Chomet has created an astonishing, magical love letter to Edinburgh after moving here in 2004. The staggering, hand-drawn animation, a world away from recent flash-bang 3D extravaganzas evokes the city in the late 50's. The effort and care demonstrated by Chomet and his team of extraordinary animators truly brings the city to life and highlights how the city can inspire and delight visitors from all over the world. We’ve had a look through our images in Capital collections in search of the locations which inspired and were used in Chomet's extraordinary film. Enter the world of The Illusionist!
September 29, 1896
Made by musicmuse_ca
My grandfather about to go to his first day at the George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. My mother had a lot of about how he got to go this school that turned out to not be at all accurate. I wrote to very nice lady named Margaret who is the current Development Assistant & Former Pupil Co-ordinator at the school and she looked him up for me in the school's Doomsday Books. Here is the information she had on my grandfather: Father George S-------- - Van man Address: 37 Thistle Street Previous School: Canonmills School Entered Heriot's: 29 September 1896 Left Heriot's: 26 July 1899 Left to position in McDougall & Co Apparently he received a Bursary to attend Heriot's, which was financial help to go thru school. He is 12 years old in this shot, outside the family home on Thistle Street, New Town Edinburgh. 10 years later, he was forced to leave his beloved Edinburgh to settle in Montreal.
Fall Over Edinburgh
Made by kenny mccartney
Fall is now in full effect. Shorter days, lower sun, warmer light, lots of color on the trees. I'm on a mission to find rooftop access (granted or not) in the city centre, in an effort to find new perspectives and unique shots. Luxury department store Harvey Nichols offers this view from their 4th floor cocktail bar, but this was taken 1.5 floors above on the roof. The risk proved worth the reward, giving me this view over New Town, my favorite park, and several of Edinburgh's landmarks. Single frame, 100 seconds, shifted, and then significantly cropped (to roughly 35mm) for composition. Of course, this was a very busy scene: hundreds of people in any given frame, and dozens of buses on the move (George Street is a primary bus route with the Princes Street closure). But the long exposure erases the hustle and gives it a serene appearance. 5D II + TSE 24L II + BW ND110 + Hoya CPL
The Scott Monument
Made by kenny mccartney
Another rooftop adventure. I'm getting better at finding these unsecured vantage points, all within two blocks of our flat. I spend my commutes (on foot & in the car) staring upwards. Photography aside, it's a good place to clear one's head and enjoy the view - true story. Two horizontal frames with upward shift stitched together, but heavily cropped in favor of the left side for composition, despite having to eliminate the Castle and the two major museums on the right side of the frame. This is due to the unsightly roadworks on Princes Street below, and in favor of centering the monument in the frame for composition appeal, sacrificing resolution. One minute apiece, no filters. Lastly, if it looks a bit unbalanced - it's close to reality: the monument is heavily lit at the bottom and it was an early blue hour. 5D II + TSE 24L II
St. Andrews Square Bus Station. Edinburgh, 1976.
Made by georgeupstairs
Viewed from the multistorey car park next door. This is the large apron where the inter-city services and tours left, and the parking for buses waiting to go out on service. The local services departed from the stygian gloom beneath the office block on the left. We see here a selection of SBG vehicles: Leopards of Scottish Omnibuses, Alexander Fife and Alexander Midland; ECW bodied Fleetlines of Scottish Omnibuses and Alexanders Fife; a couple of Lodekkas, and hidden behind the SOL Fleetline an SOL Reliance in the livery of Starks of Dunbar. It was only after I had scanned this image that I noticed for the first time the individual apparently trying to climb out the window of the office block on the right. This was office accomodation for Scottish Omnibuses - one wonders what has led to his drastic action?
Trident 675 and the Girls
Made by Stuart Montgomery's Lothian Buses
By popular request another shot from the same session I got Eclipse 145 at a rugby Saturday earlier in February 2011. This was my first glimpse of our girls but I also had Trident 675 in my sights to photograph (ok well don't believe me then - you'd be right not to!). You can see from this shot that the girls are positioned differently from the other photograph (see below again......go on you want to anyway) and I rather think everyone will be happy this time! Trident 675 is operating a Part Route service to Drum Brae South, past Murrayfield, where it will circle the roundabout and return back into town. Nice to see a 26 on a Trident which is becoming a little rare these days. Oh and there's a Charlotte lantern in the picture too....above Kylie on the right....gentlemen please! Keep your eyes steady.
Edinburgh in Autumn Colours
Made by Dysartian
Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens looked nice yesterday on a mild autumn day. The rocket-ship on the left is the monument to the writer Sir Walter Scott and in the centre is the very expensive, old North British Hotel (now the Caledonian) whilst to the right of that is the North Bridge and the roof of Waverley Rail Station. On the extreme right you can see the tall tenement buildings fringing the Royal Mile. On a historical note, the top of the Scott Monument is where I proposed to Mags. Happily the lass didn't laugh hysterically and push me off the top, but said yes and donned the engagement ring. The monument is still there from over forty years ago but sadly the jewellers shop where we purchased the ring (next to the Greyfriar's Bobby statue) is now a kebab shop or something equally mundane! :0)
Wheely Cool
Made by OnlyEverOneJack
Very pleased with the outcome of tonight - met up with 2 fellow flickrites, Grant_r and Graham Stirling, although I think the three of us overlapped for only about 10 minutes - nonetheless, I reckon I have about 6 or 7 keepers from tonights session, as well as a few this morning in Longniddry, so a good day for me all in all! I'm sure this place will get shot to death over the next few weeks, but hopefully, this slightly different angle looks OK!! I like this one because of the detail in the foreground. In order to get that I took a slightly unusual step and used a grad filter, and +1.7 EV to try and bring out the detail. Sony Alpha A450 Tamron 10-24mm @ 12mm 30 seconds at f16 Cokin P-series 0.9 Grad +1.7EV www.imagesbyandrewjack.co.uk
This is my own, my native land
Made by Lynn Morag
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. My Native Land ~ Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 ~ And a of this monument dedicated to Sir walter Scott from The Mound looking over Princes Street Gardens.
More than 35 years ago in Edinburgh
Made by georgeupstairs
I look at this picture and I sort of believe that if I went back to Edinburgh today and stood on Princes Street, one of these fine ol buses would soon trundle along. The 300 MCW-bodied Leyland Titans of the mid-1950s were my contemporaries, and were part of the street furniture of my childhood. 445 (LFS 445) is looking well-run-in here, in its twilight years. One panel is a slightly different shade and there is the near-ubiquitous rust stain under the radiator filler cap. The driver is attentive to his nearside mirror as he waits for the two bells from the conductor to tell him that the bus is loaded. The bus proudly wears the crest of Edinburgh Corporation, so much more elegant that the Lothian Region crest that supplanted it in 1976.
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