Unreal city
Edinburgh on a night of haar* - an unreal city. On my walk home from work I kept thinking of T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land':
'Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed under London Bridge...'
Below, St Giles Cathedral on the spine of the Royal Mile.
The tower on the right is part of New College, the University of Edinburgh's Divinity department. Behind it, the lights of a student hall of residence.
Waverley Station, complete with camera-shake (sorry!).
Princes Street gardens and the looming shape of the Scott Monument.
* haar - sea fog
Eek - murky! London has been much the same for the past couple of days. :-(
ReplyDeletevery creepy looking!
ReplyDeleteQuite spooky! It must have been a fast walk home!!
ReplyDeleteSuch beauty, there's nothing like fog to completely change everything.
ReplyDeleteThese are great photos! I love them! The lights shining through the fog is a perfect capture. :)
ReplyDeleteThat street light is beautiful. Your photos capture the atmosphere perfectly.
ReplyDeletemakes me feel cold ... :)
ReplyDeleteYou've succeeded in making the haar a very beautiful thing! Lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely photos! Being a fog lover, I'm particularly enamoured with the second picture - it's hauntingly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWho is the third who walks always beside you?
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderfully atmospheric photos. I love your first one of the cobwebbed street lamp - very Burke and Hare. Good pictures for Hallowe'en!
ReplyDeleteMarvelous photos, thank you!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous spooky shots!
ReplyDeleteGood think you told us what "haar" is. Yes, it was pretty foggy when you took those always wonderful photos you do so well. Otherwise I would have just imagined that it was because of your shorter days now.
ReplyDeleteIf a couple of your bloggers hadn't mentioned the first picture as being a street light, I wouldn't have had a clew what the picture was. It is really an interesting shot indeed.
Altogether this was just another of your wonderful posts of amazing photos. Thank you so much.
These are some amazing fog photos. One of them for sure looks like an impressionistic painting. Really fun shots even though I bet it wasn't that great to experience.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures - I lived in Edinburgh for a little while so love to see photos of the city. Surely the camera shake adds to the effect?
ReplyDeleteAnd Eliot is just right for such a time of day - do you know the beginning of his Preludes? Your pictures put me in mind of that one also.
Thank you, Judy.
Thank you for your comments. In fact I had quite a slow walk home - I dawdled along enjoying the fog. It wasn't too cold, and there were a lot of people out with cameras. Although at one point I did take a short cut which in retrospect I shouldn't have done - it was rather too isolated in that weather. Judy, 'The winter evening settles down...' - yes, Eliot was a great fog guy. I imagine there were plenty of fogs in the London of those days.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, gorgeous... perfect for the upcoming Samhain! We rode out Hurricane Sandy last night, my hair is still standing on end. Don't need a costume now.
ReplyDeleteLovely atmospheric photos.
ReplyDeleteHuh....I was thinking the very same words as Marcheline while waiting for this to load.
ReplyDeleteI will repeat ir - gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!
I love haar - hadn't realised until talking to others how much of a localised phenomena it is. Gorgeous seeing edinburgh so spooky and atmospheric!
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