The Varying Moods of Scotland

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Summer in the Highlands? Hold a Games, break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.

Tourist season in Edinburgh? Break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.

Autumn, pretending to be winter, in Perth? Break out the pipes and drums and play Scotland the Brave.

This was one of the above situations.

Perth Street Stories: groups

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Back in November, Perth council thought to hold a winter street festival – never mind that it wasn’t Christmas, Advent (at the time) or even winter yet, at least it was a good excuse to get folks tramping past the shop windows.

Herewith, a handful of street scenes – a little different for me – this time, groups of humans.

I didn’t rate the bell-ringers very highly; the slow and disjoint performance (only identifiable by the title on the sheet music saying “Jingle Bells”) served only to distract at close range from the pop-noise coming from a couple of large speaker-stacks a little further down the pedestrian precinct.

Ways of Looking at a Bollard

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Well, they say photography is partly about seeing interest in mundane things. So here are five views of a simple bit of street-furniture:

  1. fisheye, defished – for an ultrawide distorted effect, the bollard in its context
  2. minimalist – all distracting elements removed for a pure study of lines
  3. abstract – reduced to a pattern of lines, curves and textures (two of these)
  4. telephoto – from afar, with moderate context

All are black and white, HDR made from 3 frames bracketed +/-1EV.