My final selection of photographs from Scotland. I begin with this picture taken on the last day of our holiday on our return to Edinburgh. It was a cool, rainy day; fortunately one of the few we experienced while in Scotland. I was searching a good vantage point to photograph the Forth Bridge. I found a good view from the downtown area of the town of Queensferry. It’s a quaint town, very typical of Scotland, offering some good photo opportunities, in addition to the bridge.
So here’s the bridge. a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is considered an iconic structure and a symbol of Scotland. It was delegated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.
We visited many interesting towns and villages in our travels through the Highlands, including Grantown-on-Spey, located on the Spey River in the north of Cairngorns National Park. I took a number of pictures and chose this one for today’s post. I like the sky in this picture, a patch of blue emerging from heavy cloud cover over the town.
My next picture features a lighthouse located on the Tarbat Peninsula, north of Inverness. The lighthouse is a beacon signalling the location of this peninsula jutting out into the North Sea.
From the Isle of Skye, on the west coast of Scotland is this next picture featuring an old church in the village of Teangue.
One of the principal attractions of the Isle of Skye is a rocky hill on the Trotternish Peninsula. I photographed The Old Man of Storr from a number of angles and conclude that this one is my favourite.
Glen Roy is a National Nature Reserve and is noted for the geological puzzle of the three roads (“Parallel Roads”). The “Parallel Roads” of Glen Roy are loch terraces that formed along the shorelines of an ancient ice-dammed loch. From a distance they resemble man-made roads running along the side of the Glen.
I captured this next picture in the course of an early morning walk through the City of St. Andrews. I caught the sun as it emerged above a layer of clouds on the horizon. The tide was out, allowing me a good view of the interesting shoreline below.
The Old Stirling Bridge was built over 500 years ago. It was the lowest bridging point over the River Forth for almost four centuries. Before this Bridge was built there were earlier structures, including the wooden bridge where Sir William Wallace defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297.
Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis in Angus, Scotland. It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is open to the public.
Glamis Castle has been the home of the Lyon family since the 14th century, though the present building dates largely from the 17th century. Glamis was the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, wife of King George VI. Their second daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden, was born there.
