Tag: Scotland

Sir William Chambers

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I’ve been digging around in my archive. This statue of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh stands in front of the National Museum of Scotland. The most amazing thing about this photo was the reaction of KI. I asked google who this was (photo search). The answer was a description that it was the photo of a statue of a man, possibly in Edinburgh, “but no guarantees”. When I confirmed the information about the location in Edinburgh it stated that the man depicted was Prince Albert. First KI was humble, then with more information it was confidently wrong. A bit more searching and looking at various sculptures, I’m pretty sure that KI is wrong and I am right: it’s Sir William Chambers (incidentally in Chambers Street).

Monday Portrait

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Diplomacy – or …?

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… divided loyalties?

Rugby fans at a match between Scotland and South Africa with kilts and Springbok sweaters or kilts made of South African material and Scottish tam (including fake ginger hair).

But this fan really was the best: He was wearing a ghillie shirt with a South African cravat underneath. His kilt was made of material featuring the Springbok emblem of the South African rugby union. And the cherry on the top was his sporran made of springbok fur.

FOWC with Fandango: Diplomacy

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What an Odd Place

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It’s not the shop that’s odd, not the bright colour beneath the old grey stones, not even the skeleton in the entrance or the huge nose with glasses. It’s the sticker on the top of the nose I find odd. Who put it there? And why? Nobody can see it or read it. Was it put up before the nose was hoisted up?

I went to my Edinburgh archives from a single day in the wonderful city and of course, it was Debbie’s oddity that provided the impulse.

Odd Square #16

Forward position

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This is Josh Strauss, a South African born rugby forward who became elligible to play for Scotland only a month prior to the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England and Scotland. The photos were taken at the RWC match Scotland vs South Africa in Newcastle.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Forward.

Bay windows

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Bay window in a half-timbered house in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Also half-timbered but different style in Michelstadt im Odenwald in Germany.

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Still Michelstadt but about a century younger.

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A bay window in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the grey-yellow stone typical of the architecture there.

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And in Heidelberg, Germany, it’s rather sandstone red.

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The newest of the lot.  A bay window in white wood near Roker Beach in Sunderland.

Linked to Monday Window.

 

On the brink

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… and it’s just about to drop!

And now for something completely different.  This photo is from the South Africa vs Scotland game during the Rugby World Championship 2015 (one of the only two international matches I have ever been to).  It’s really not fair to post a photo from a rugby match for this topic as you can just point the camera and something is happening.  But I thought I’d share this tender moment between Francois Louw and Schalk Burger just before a line out (at any other time, this gesture might have been misunderstood):

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Linked to A Photo a Week: Timing is everything.