The concrete shore
Beside the entrance to the port of Leith is a housing development. Tall, anonymous-in-a-European-way blocks of flats stand on infilled land that used to be part of the harbour. The path that leads past them is our nearest access to the shore, good for looking across the Forth to the hills of Fife, or westwards towards the Forth bridges and the sunset. The blocks of flats I find strangely desolate, so I prefer to look at the firth as it opens up towards the North Sea.
Yesterday evening the sea was a luminous, icy blue. The setting sun picked out an oil tanker.
Below, the little lighthouse at the end of the harbour breakwater.
I love it when the sky is the same colour as the sea.
ReplyDeleteEspecially in Scotland.
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An interesting spot for a housing development. I would prefer to see the land by the sea.
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ReplyDeleteI love your every pic! Amber and Mike's friend from Scotland has been in Texas for a visit. Amber and Mike went out socially for the first time since December 2011 - showing Greg Night Life TEXAS style!!! They were hanging on his every word and drinking up the sound of his Scottish brogue. If we didn't live in Texas we would love to live in Scotland!!
We seem to be building more and more of these eastern block style post war blocks now, and just because they have a fancy kitchen and view, they become 'desirable apartments'. For me, I have to like what I see when I come home, as well as what I see when I am there. Beautiful and atmospheric pictures Linda, and I particularly like the second one. Take care.
ReplyDeleteI have a weakness for water shots, love our own North Sea seen from this side too :)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to walk along the path...but I think I'd be looking out at the ocean the whole way!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful views of the sea. I wonder too why they built the housing development there?
ReplyDeleteIt looks so peaceful! That would be a prime & expensive spot for an apartment building here.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wish I lived right by the sea, but I agree about that desolate block of flats.
ReplyDeleteI was going to express pretty much the same thing as Pamela did. I particularly noticed that the sea and the sky were about the same color. As usual the shots were great.
ReplyDeleteThe scene of the apartments overlooking the sea is only beautiful to the people living in the apartments. It seems pretty much a shame that they had to build so close to the sea. It doesn't make it so lovely for those who are walking by.
It is interesting to me too what you said about your camera. Some of the things that are "new" are just not as good as the old. I think comapnies just don't go for the quality as much as they used to. It is a throw away society. Certainly, it isn't easy to get anything newer fixed any more. It's usually easier and cheaper to just toss the new broken one away and buy another
At any rate, that older camera of yours is a great one, so for goodness sake don't ever plan on replacing it!
I really like the top image - it's like a surreal cousin to all those concrete holiday resorts on the Mediterranean. I've been to Leith, but unfortunately I never saw that view.
ReplyDeleteThe sky colors in each of them are so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your comments. Building on reclaimed or former industrial land at the shore is very popular here at the moment. Part of 'regeneration' projects. Wonderful views, but very empty and soul-less roundabout.
ReplyDeleteI love those views, although often I@m the other side of them in Kirkcaldy with its equally concrete sprawl. The sea there has a similar appearence to Scapa Flow up here with tankers and islands dotted in the foreground makes for an interesting coastline and vista.
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